This is a list of surviving ships from the ancient or prehistoric era. All the ships on this list date to 5th century AD or before.
Name | Image | Year of construction | Type | Build location [a] | Current location |
Overall length |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pesse canoe | 8040–7510 BC [1] | Dugout canoe | Mesolithic Europe |
Netherlands ( Assen) |
9.75 ft (2.97 m) | |
Dufuna canoe | — | 6550 BC [2] | Dugout canoe | Neolithic Africa |
Nigeria ( Yobe State) |
28 ft (8.5 m) |
Bibongho canoe | — | 6000 BC [3] | Dugout canoe | Prehistoric Korea |
South Korea ( Gimhae) |
10.17 ft (3.10 m) |
Pirogues de Bercy | 4500 BC [4] | Dugout canoes | Neolithic France |
France
(Musée Carnavalet) |
17.00 ft (5.18 m) | |
Dugout Canoe of Gué de Beaulieu | 3500–3000 BC [5] | Dugout canoe | Neolithic France | France
(Musée de Cognac) |
18.56 ft (5.66 m) | |
Khufu ship | 2500 BC [6] | Solar ship | Ancient Egypt |
Egypt ( Giza) |
142 ft (43 m) | |
Cooper River Canoe | — | 2140 BC [7] [8] | Dugout canoe | East Branch of the Cooper River, in present-day South Carolina, USA | >6 m (20 ft) | |
Lurgan Canoe | — | 2000 BC [9] | Dugout canoe | Prehistoric Ireland |
Ireland
( Dublin) |
50 ft (15 m) |
Carnegie boat | — | 1870–1831 BC [10] [11] | Solar ship | Ancient Egypt |
United States
( Pittsburgh) |
32.8 ft (10.0 m) |
Chicago boat | 1870–1831 BC [10] | Solar ship | Ancient Egypt | United States
( Chicago) |
32.8 ft (10.0 m) | |
Red boat [b] | 1870–1831 BC [10] [12] | Solar ship | Ancient Egypt | Egypt (Sharm El-Sheikh Museum) |
32.8 ft (10.0 m) | |
White boat [c] | 1870–1831 BC [10] [12] | Solar ship | Ancient Egypt | Egypt (Sharm El-Sheikh Museum) |
32.8 ft (10.0 m) | |
Appleby logboat | — | 1500–1300 BC | Logboat | Prehistoric Britain |
United Kingdom ( North Lincolnshire Museum) |
— |
Dover Bronze Age Boat | 1500 BC [13] | Seagoing boat | Prehistoric Britain |
United Kingdom ( Dover) |
31 ft (9.4 m) [d] | |
Hanson Log Boat | 1500 BC [14] | Logboat | Prehistoric Britain | United Kingdom ( Derby) |
32 ft (10 m) | |
Carpow Logboat | 1000 BC [15] | Logboat | Prehistoric Britain | United Kingdom
( Perth) |
29 ft (8.8 m) | |
Second canoe found in Lake Mendota | — | 1000 BC [16] | Native American canoe | Lake Mendota, in current Wisconsin, USA | 14.5 ft (4.4 m) | |
Dugout canoe from the Ljubljansko barje | 9th century BC [17] | Dugout canoe | Ljubljana Marsh |
Slovenia
( Ljubljana) |
30.5 ft (9.3 m) | |
Hasholme Logboat | 750–390 BC | Logboat | Prehistoric Britain | United Kingdom
( Hull) |
42.3 ft (12.9 m) | |
Mazarrón I | 7th century BC [18] [19] | Boat | Ancient Phoenicia |
Spain
( Cartagena) |
26.5 ft (8.1 m) | |
Ma'agan Michael ship | 5th century BC | Trade ship | Palaestina Prima |
Israel ( Ma'agan Michael) |
37 ft (11 m) | |
Fiskerton log boat | 457–300 BC [20] | Logboat | Prehistoric Britain | United Kingdom
( Lincoln) |
23 ft (7.0 m) | |
Hjortspring boat | 400–300 BC [21] | Canoe | Unknown ( Nordic tribal area) |
Denmark ( Copenhagen) |
58 ft (18 m) | |
Kyrenia ship | 400–300 BC | Trade ship | Macedonia |
Cyprus ( Kyrenia) |
47 ft (14 m) | |
Mohelnice monoxyl | 3rd century BC [e] | Dugout canoe |
Czechia
( Moravia) |
Czechia
( Olomouc) |
34.4 ft (10.5 m) | |
Poole Logboat | 300 BC [22] [23] | Logboat | Prehistoric Britain | United Kingdom
( Poole) |
33 ft (10 m) | |
Marsala Punic shipwreck | 235 BC [24] [25] | Warship | Ancient Carthage |
Italy
( Sicily) |
115 ft (35 m) | |
Sea of Galilee Boat | 120 BC–50 AD | Fishing boat | Ancient Rome | Israel ( Ginosar) |
27 ft (8.2 m) | |
Comacchio wreck | 1st century BC [26] [27] | Cargo vessel | Ancient Rome | Italy
(Palazzo Bellini) |
68.89 ft (21.00 m) | |
Zwammerdam 3 | 0 AD [28] [29] | Canoe | Ancient Rome | Netherlands
( Archeon) |
34.9 ft (10.6 m) | |
Alkedo | 1st century AD [30] [31] | Pleasure craft | Ancient Rome | Italy
( Pisa) |
72 ft (22 m) | |
Arles Rhône 3 | 1st century AD [32] | Trade ship | Ancient Rome | France ( Arles) |
102 ft (31 m) | |
Pommeroeul 1 [33] [34] | 1st–2nd century AD | Barge | Ancient Rome | Belgium
( Ath) |
39.3 ft (12.0 m) | |
Pommeroeul 2 [33] [35] | 1st century AD | Dugout canoe | Ancient Rome | Belgium
(Ath) |
65.6 ft (20.0 m) | |
Zwammerdam 2 | 80–200 AD [36] [37] [38] | Cargo vessel | Ancient Rome | Netherlands
(Archeon) |
74.63 ft (22.75 m) | |
Mainz 6 | 81 AD [39] | Barge | Ancient Rome | Germany
( Mainz) |
13.7 ft (4.2 m) | |
Oberstimm 1 | 100 AD [40] [41] | Military vessel | Ancient Rome | Germany
( Manching) |
49 ft (15 m) | |
Oberstimm 2 | 100 AD [42] [41] | Military vessel | Ancient Rome | Germany
(Manching) |
50.5 ft (15.4 m) | |
Barchino F | 2nd century AD [43] | Boat | Ancient Rome | Italy
(Pisa) |
29.5 ft (9.0 m) | |
Ship A | 2nd century AD [44] | Shipping vessel | Ancient Rome | Italy
(Pisa) |
98 ft (30 m) [f] | |
De Meern 1 | 148 AD [45] | Barge | Ancient Rome | Netherlands
( De Meern) |
82 ft (25 m) | |
Bevaix boat | 182 AD [46] | Trade ship | Ancient Rome |
Switzerland
( Laténium) |
63.6 ft (19.40 m) | |
Mainz 3 | 191 AD [47] | Patrol vessel | Ancient Rome | Germany
(Mainz) |
55.77 ft (17.00 m) | |
Roman ship of Marausa | 3rd century AD | Merchant ship | Ancient Rome | Italy
( Trapani) |
91.5 ft (27.9 m) | |
Mainz 2 | 249 AD [48] | Navis lusoria | Ancient Rome | Germany
(Mainz) |
70.53 ft (21.50 m) | |
Björkebåten | 4th century AD [49] [50] | Log boat | Sweden | Sweden
( Gävle) |
23.68 ft (7.22 m) | |
Mainz 4 | 4th century AD [51] | Navis lusoria | Ancient Rome | Germany
(Mainz) |
70.53 ft (21.50 m) | |
Nydam Boat | 310–320 AD [52] | Pre-Viking ship | Denmark
(Nordic tribal area) |
Germany | 76 ft (23 m) | |
Mainz 1 | 385 AD [53] | Navis lusoria | Ancient Rome | Germany
(Mainz) |
70.53 ft (21.50 m) | |
Mainz 5 | 395 AD [54] | Navis lusoria | Ancient Rome | Germany
(Mainz) |
70.53 ft (21.50 m) | |
Ship D | 5th century AD [55] | Barge | Ancient Rome | Italy
(Pisa) |
— | |
Ship I | 5th century AD [56] | River ferry | Ancient Rome | Italy
(Pisa) |
— | |
Chitimacha dugout canoe | — | 5th century AD [57] | Dugout canoe | Belle River, just south of present-day Donaldsonville, Louisiana, USA | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
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