Viking ships were vulnerable to flooding during storms, and while they could navigate shallower waters, it took an expert to avoid underwater hazards that could damage the ship’s hull.

The community of scientific experts and historians works tirelessly to find answers to all those questions and doubts that surround human beings. Some of them are directed at civil ...

Viking Age ships (and all other ships from the Nordic countries before that) were built with clinker, long planks of the hull overlapping each other; but in hand-built ships, they lie side by side.

A 15th-century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden may be Scandinavia's oldest shipwreck built in the innovative "carvel" style ...

The hull is built at Vard Tulcea in Romania. Vard Tulcea has also partly outfitted the ship. Viking Polaris” is the second expedition cruise ship built by Fincantieri for owner Viking Cruises.