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Excerpt from The Boy's Book of Famous Warships Some historians think that these Scandinavian sea rovers, whom we call Vikings, or Northmen, invented their type of boat unaided by other sea-faring peoples. But the Viking ship looks so much like the old Phoenician galley that we have reason to think that the Norseman might have learned his ship-building from the swift galleys of Tyre and Sidon. In the previous chapter we noted that the Phoenicians traveled far. It is very probable that if they entered the English Channel they kept on, following the western coast of Europe northwards to the Baltic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.