SHIP SHAPE: Newport's Medieval Ship - 10 years on

ShipShape: AHRC Film commemorates 10th anniversary of Newport Ship discovery
In 2002 the remains of a medieval #ship were discovered during the construction of a Theatre and Arts Centre, on the bank of the river Usk in Newport, South #Wales.
Ten years on, The Newport Ship remains the most substantial, and arguably the most important #medievalship found in Britain in modern times. The recovery of the ship in 2002 captured the imagination of Newport and sparked strong local support for its rescue and display, mirrored by widespread academic interest.
An ongoing funding commitment from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in a project led by Nigel Nayling, Associate Professor, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, has been instrumental in the #conservation, reconstruction and display of the ship.
In this short film we hear from Nigel Nayling who gives us a history of the ship's discovery and tells us how AHRC funding is helping Newport unravel the secrets of this mysterious vessel.
After discovery, the ship was dismantled and the remains were excavated piece-by-piece and stored in large freshwater containers to prevent decay. A total of 1,700 ship timbers and over 600 associated timbers were retrieved and catalogued. With the help of AHRC funding, each individual timber was painstakingly recorded using 3-dimensional recording arms to produce a digital record of the ship's key structural elements.
Each of the waterlogged timbers is now being chemically treated to remove contaminants such as iron and sulphur. Once treated, the timbers are put in a giant freeze dryer to get rid of the water. Drying is scheduled to finish by 2014, and it will take another three years to rebuild the ship.
In the meantime, public interest (demonstrated by tens of thousands of visitors to the Newport Ship Centre) has needed to be sustained. This has been achieved through the production of a 1:10 scale model of the ship which was built using pieces modelled from the 3D digital records.
The AHRC also funded an interim exhibition, of which the 3D model formed the centre piece, which addressed some of the most common questions asked by the public such as ""What did the ship look like?"", ""How big was the ship?"", and ""How much cargo could it carry?""
Feedback from public responses to the exhibition has been used to help develop display concepts for a permanent display of the ship once all the timbers have been treated and dried, and the ship has been reconstructed.
The exhibition, and the AHRC-funded research underpinning it, was achieved through partnerships between the Newport Museum and Heritage Service (keeper of the ship) and the University of Wales, Lampeter, which has provided archaeological consultancy support since the ship's discovery.
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[@daviddavis9348]

I saw this in person so many times as my mother worked here and designed the museum display, 😁

[@rubenak1]

From 🇪🇸, great job!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@jacklonghearse9821]

Wow!!! Amazingly well done!!!

[@jaimegarcia9408]

Spanish boat, specifically built in the Basque country, Spain has been for centuries the best boat builders in the world. I say this because in this video they don't even mention it, so that it is clear what the Spaniards were capable of doing in the fourteenth century, already showing the army that would change the world.

[@EloyGijon67]

Don't worry... they'll never say it's a Spanish ship :)

[@jaimegarcia9408]

@@EloyGijon67 por eso lo digo, porqué no lo dicen, es un barco español que transportaba vino de la península y además con las líneas del futuro galeón español.

[@perruxini]

Good work !!🙋☺️

[@JMLCK78]

It would be cool if they made a full-size replica.

[@myalfie]

An embarrassment to the city of Newport, that the ineptitude of the labour run council still have not funded a permanent home for this boat?Its older than the Mary rose and the tourism it would bring to Newport would be phenomenal, alais the short sighted council can’t see it what an embarrassment that is, and STILL Herbert’s blindly vote this shower in.

[@chiaranzlhl8893]

ma che sarebbe??