Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — The Oldest Sailing Craft. [ARTICLE]

The Oldest Sailing Craft.

The Oldest sailing cruft in. the world Is the so-called Gokstad ship, a Viking vessel, which was discovered in a sepulchral mound on the shores of Christiania fjord. It Is a thousand years ok}.