The ship, which will leave the museum at the end of October, will sail to the Mediterranean after undergoing maintenance at Şehir Hatları Haliç Shipyard.
Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Turkey’s first and only industrial museum reflecting the developments in the history of transportation, industry and communication, sees off the Viking ship Saga Farmmann. The ship, which set out from Tønsberg, Norway, on April 29, traveled 100 kilometers through more than 3 canals and started to be exhibited in the museum on August 500 after reaching Istanbul.
The 20-meter Saga Farmann, an exact replica of the Viking sailboat thought to have been used as a cargo ship a thousand years ago, will be taken into service at the City Hatları Haliç Shipyard at the end of October. The ship on which the modern Vikings made their historic 93-day sea voyage will sail to the Mediterranean after its operations at the shipyard.
Rahmi M. Koç Museum hosted a panel titled ‘Two Ships and Two Shipbuilding Techniques of the 18th Century: Yenikapı 10 and Saga Farmmann’, organized in cooperation with Koç University Maritime Forum (KÜDENFOR) and the Norwegian Oseberg Viking Heritage Foundation, on October 12. will make. The panel will discuss Saga Farmann and the Yenikapı 2019 ship, which has been exhibited in the museum since 12.
The Yenikapı 9 merchant ship wreck replica, which was discovered on the land of Yenikapı (Thedosius) Harbor within the scope of the Istanbul University Yenikapı Shipwrecks Excavation and Conservation Project and belongs to the 12th century Eastern Roman Empire period, corresponds to the same period as the Viking ship Saga Farmann. Both boats, built in accordance with the techniques of the periods they represent and capable of navigating at sea, went down in history as they were found in the same environment and in the Golden Horn.
