On my school trip to Dover, we stopped off at the hugin Viking ship, it used to sit in front of the original hovercraft terminal which has since been demolished. I couldn't remember where it was exactly so i was pleased when we drove past it to say the least!
It was rowed over from Denmark in 1949 and has since been restored at a cost of £250,000! ( quite how you get to that figure is beyond me at times!!)
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Was this an authentic, original Viking ship? And why did it end up calling the UK it's home? And as far as restoring it goes, holy cow, that's quite a pricetag; it seems like it would've cost less to build an identical replica from scratch!
Hi Jessica, its a replica built in the 1940's it was rowed over to represent the type of ships that invaded that part of the uk in the 9th century.
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