In May 2027, time and tide permitting, the ship should slide down the slip and, powered by 40 volunteer rowers, take to the water again. Major research projectThe Sutton Hoo Ship’s Company was established in 2016 to create an authentic replica using traditional materials and techniques. Angela Care Evans, a trustee, had excavated with the British Museum at Sutton Hoo in 1965-70, and with the Sutton Hoo Research Trust for decades from the 1980s; all the other finds from the burial have been reconstructed, she says, except the greatest, the ship itself. Martin Carver, chair of the Sutton Hoo Ship’s Company, has excavated and written extensively about the site © Andy Mills; Applied Risk Management LtdMany questions remain were passionately debated in a long study day in the ship hall in May. After a permanent home is found for the Sutton Hoo ship—the team has been told to vacate the Longshed in 2028—attention will turn to another contemporary Anglo-Saxon ship under a mound, the Snape Ship discovered in 1827 and excavated in 1862.