Regional ship type
Botter
Fishing, family labour and the changing Zuiderzee
Zuiderzee coast
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European maritime heritage
Ships & European boat traditions
From working harbours to polar exploration: discover the boats that connect Europe’s waters, communities and history. Each dossier combines documented history, individual image credits and an independent editorial reading.
56 dossiers · Page 1 of 3
A regional ship type describes a boat family. An individual historic ship follows one identified vessel.
Regional ship type
Lemsteraak
From the northern Zuiderzee fishery to a diverse sailing tradition
Lemmer & the former Zuiderzee
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Regional ship type
Skûtsje
Cargo, household and competitive sailing in Friesland
Friesland
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Regional ship type
Hengst
A sturdy working tradition of the Scheldt estuary
Scheldt delta
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Regional ship type
Schokker
A fishing-boat family from the eastern edge of the Zuiderzee
Eastern Zuiderzee
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Regional ship type
Boeier
Pleasure sailing within a long Dutch tradition of rounded craft
Friesland & Dutch inland waters
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Regional ship type
Thames Sailing Barge
Cargo under sail across the estuaries of south-east England
Thames & east-coast estuaries
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Regional ship type
Norfolk Wherry
A cargo hold, a great sail and the waterways of the Broads
Norfolk & Suffolk Broads
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Regional ship type
Fifie
The east-coast herring fishery seen through a sailing drifter
Scotland’s east coast
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Regional ship type
Zulu
A Scottish herring boat that combined familiar ideas in a new hull
Moray Firth & Scotland’s east coast
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Regional ship type
Cornish Lugger
Sail, fishing communities and a surviving Cornish working tradition
Cornwall
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Regional ship type
Brixham Sailing Trawler
A fishing port’s design carried into a wider maritime world
Brixham, Devon
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Regional ship type
Galway Hooker
A west-coast boat connecting cargo, community and sail
Galway Bay & Connemara
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Regional ship type
Currach
A light boat and the knowledge carried along Ireland’s Atlantic shore
Ireland’s Atlantic coast
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Regional ship type
Nordlandsbåt
Northern Norway’s coastal world in a family of open boats
Northern Norway
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Regional ship type
Oselvar
A Norwegian boat tradition sustained through the act of building
Bjørnafjorden, western Norway
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Regional ship type
Færing
Four oars, small cargoes and the fjord as a road
Norwegian coastal waters & fjords
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Regional ship type
Sinagot
A shallow-water fishing boat from Séné and the Morbihan
Séné & the Golfe du Morbihan
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Regional ship type
Bisquine
Fishing power and sailing revival between Cancale and Granville
Cancale & Granville
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Regional ship type
Chaloupe Sardinière
The sardine fishery in the shape of a Douarnenez boat
Douarnenez, Brittany
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Regional ship type
Moliceiro
A lagoon boat at the meeting of agriculture, painting and local identity
Ria de Aveiro
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Rabelo
Port wine, a mountain river and a boat made to carry casks
Douro River
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Gondola
The making and maintenance behind Venice’s most familiar boat
Venice & its lagoon
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Regional ship type
Trabaccolo
An Adriatic working boat read through surviving museum examples
Northern & central Adriatic
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