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Phoenician ship progress
Work is nearly finished on the build of a replica Phoenician ship from around 600BC.
She is due to set off on a historic re-enactment voyage in a circumnavigation of the African continent in August.
After that, the ship, which measures 21.5m (72ft) LOA, will sail back home to Britain in 2009 to feature as the centrepiece of a planned Phoenician expedition at the British Museum. Project leader Philip Beale believes Phoenicians circumnavigated Africa 2,000 years before any Europeans. He was the man behind a similar trip in 2003, a crossing to West Africa aboard a replica 8th-century BC Indonesian trader.
The new ship is in build in Syria's Arwad region, under the eye of local shipbuilder Khalid Hammoud. The project is looking for crew - see June CB for details.
Steffan Meyric Hughes, Classic Boat, 13 May 2008
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