This Bronze Age boat was discovered by E. V. Wright in 1940 in
the intertidal zone of the River Humber at North Ferriby, East
Yorkshire, England.
The boat is dated by C14 roughly to about 1300 BC.
The remains comprised only the central 'keel-strake' of a boat,
consisting of two incomplete oak (Quercus) planks scarfed together.
The total length was 11.4m, and it was about 0.7m wide and 10cm.
thick. Withy stitches originally attached this to adjacent strakes,
and the bottom of the vessel was braced by transverse timbers
passing through holes in cleats. There were some slots in cleat-like
inboard projections which possibly suggest the location of some
form of framing.
The plank is curved longitudinally showing that the vessel had
a 'rocker'.
The remains of this boat have not survived.
Main Publication:
Edward Wright, The Ferriby Boats: Seacraft of the Bronze Age.
1990, Routledge, London.