16th International Symposium on Boat & Ship Archaeology

25 Zadar, Croatia | 26 September – 1 October 2021 Mike Belasus 1 , Jens Auer 2 & Konstantinos Alexious 3 1 Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2 State Department for Culture and Heritage Protection Mecklenburg-West Pomerania State Archaeology, Schwerin, Germany 3 Aarhus University, School of Culture and Society - Department of Archeology and Heritage Studies, Højbjerg, Denmark The Jasmund 7 ‘Mukran’ wreck. A mid-16 th century carvel built ship off the Island of Rügen, North Germany The Jasmund 7 “ Mukran ” wreck is one of the earliest carvel built ships found in Germany. GDR navy divers discovered it in 1982. Since then a number of attempts were undertaken to document the ship’s remains in shallow water off the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea (Springmann 1997/Förster 1999). Ship’s weaponry found in the vicinity of the site and traces of fire with- in the remains may relate the wreck to a hostile encounter between a joined squadron of Danish vessels and ships from the Hanse town of Lübeck on one side and Swedish ships on the other in 1565 during the Nordic Seven Years’ War (1563-1570). In a joint campaign of the State Archaeology Service of Mecklenburg – West Pomerania, the German Maritime Museum and the University of Southern Denmark’s Maritime Archaeology Program during the summers of 2016 and 2017 it was finally possible to carry out a detailed investigation and recording of the ship’s remains and artefacts recovered from the site in previous years. Further, an extensive dendrochronological analysis provided vital data for the interpretation of the construction. The wreck represents an important source of information on the ways of adapting flush outer planking in North European shipbuilding.