![]() ![]() It is interesting to note that aerolinen offers similar technical properties to modern day e-glass fiber and is around three times as strong in tension as a cotton cloth, largely due to the long staple length of the flax fibers. The secret to a superior hull was the application of linen cloth onto the wooden hull and the ‘wetting out’ of the cloth with pine resin, a natural polymer that becomes liquid above 70 degrees Celsius (158 degrees Fahrenheit) which can be pigment with powder additives – as the fresco suggests - sealing the hull. Joinery technique used for a Minoan ship hull (Copyright Nik Aed) and plaster cast of the void left by a Minoan tripod table after the Thera eruption. It is more likely that Minoan shipwrights used this method based upon the quality of their carpentry, as illustrated by the Thera tripod table, that shows a quality approaching, if not equaling, Chippendale furniture. This method has a distinct advantage over the first, as a tapered dowel self-centers and pulls the planks together to provide a strong joint. A hexagonal shim with holes at the top and bottom was inserted, and a tapered dowel was inserted in each to provide a secure fixing. ![]() The abutting planks (typically cypress) were rebated to provide a slot and a hole was drilled into each plank to be joined. But it fell out of use after this period. The reconstruction team had to make their best guess because the Minoan technology was improved on over millennia, with a myriad of alterations over generations of Palace controlled shipyards.Ī second method was known for hull construction: one that used strong mortice and tenon joints. It is not the timber frame that made the hull water tight, it is the linen cloth they applied. This method was employed by a reconstruction team and the crew report that the hull would creak at sea, as the planks move against one another, but it would hold together. Byzantine shipwrecks reveal advanced shipbuilding techniques.Remnants of 18th Century Ship May Provide Clues to Revolutionary-era Shipbuilding. ![]()
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