Hansekogge von 1380Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum

 Per Hoffmann The Medieval Fleet
 
The Cog of 1380 is the biggest and most important ship in our Medieval Fleet. Nobody knew how the famous ship of the Hanseatic times really looked like, before she emerged from the river Weser in Bremen during dredging for a new dock. The salvage of the Cog and the decision to conserve her, and to put her on display fostered the foundation of the Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, the German National Maritime Museum. The Cog, however, is not our only original water craft from times long gone by. Seven of the ten ships, boats, and pontoons in our Medieval Fleet have been conserved after excavation, and all have been dated.
 
The Eke from the Weser, 8th century
Karl von Bremen, 808 AD
The Oberländer from the Rhine, about 1000 AD
The Logboat from the Leine, 11th century
The Schlachte-Cog, about 1170 AD
The big Pontoon from Mandelsloh, about 1350 AD
The Bremen Cog of 1380 AD
The Logboat from Aschaffenburg, 2nd half of the 14th century
Two Pontoons from ferry-rafts, about 1400 AD
The small Pontoon from Hameln, about 1460 AD
 
Editors: Gabriele Hoffmann and Erik Hoops