In Arkhangelsk found part of the board of the Pomeranian vessel of the XVIII century

In the Northern Maritime Museum, a new unique object appeared - an element of the embroidered vice-board of a Pomeranian vessel. The museum reported it.

In the spring of 2026 in Arkhangelsk, at the site of a dismantled cooling tower near the Palace of Sports, archaeologists discovered a fragment of the Pomeranian kocha board - six stabbed boards sewn by the vice "outside".

The ship could have been built in the first half of the XVIII century, perhaps earlier. In design and technology, the fragment corresponds to the finds of a kocha in Mangazei (the first quarter of the XVII century), but is distinguished by special accuracy and thoroughness of fitting.

According to the expert Sergey Kukhterin, this is a fragment of the side of a large 8-10-seeded (18-21 m) Pomeranian kocha with a width of 7-8 m, probably at the end of the XVII century - a vessel designed for multi-season river and sea voyages.