Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever

Post by twic » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 11:57 AM UTC

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Well, as the article says: > Per the statement, the large vessels were made to sail north from the Netherlands, around Denmark and toward the Baltic Sea. [...] Uldum adds that shipbuilders made the cogs as large as possible to transport bulky cargo, like timber Once you've built one cog, you've got the ideal tool to fetch Polish timber to build more!

>Once you've built one cog, you've got the ideal tool to fetch Polish timber to build more! It's cogs all the way down!

Post by dyauspitr » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:26 PM UTC

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I can appreciate their troubles. How is someone supposed to pay for all the overhead that goes into research and writing these articles without a source of income. People also seem dead against subscriptions. The only way that seems to work is appealing to the LCD and raking in stream bucks but not all media/literature, especially the valuable kind, is conducive to that model.

"How is someone supposed to pay for all the overhead that goes into research and writing these articles without a source of income?" Some people here think it's wonderful most of Wikipedia was built without paying its editors. Depends who you ask.

Post by shiroiuma » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 12:20 AM UTC

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Post by nerdponx » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 1:12 AM UTC

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I live in a late 18th-century rowhouse where there is large stonework for window sills/surrounds/doorways all done in a very specific pink granite that was carved from a shoreline quarry a significant distance away. Massive stones, 100kg+ each, had to be transported by horse-drawn cart, over not-easy-terrain, a distance that would have taken two horses probably 8-9 hours per trip, and enough stones that it was probab…

Are you anywhere near (the remains of?) a canal network? That was how bulk cargo was generally transported in the 18th century. First-mile + last-mile would be by wagon, of course, though usually pulled by oxen, not horses. Canals were economically revolutionary, for 100-150 years, until railroads largely supplanted them. They remained viable, in limited circumstances (ie, some routes for some cargos), until the mid-…