Modern Vikings Row Up The Thames - The Viking ship Hugin being rowed upstream, with Tower Bridge in the background.The Viking ship 'Hugin', which was sailed across the North Sea from Denmark to commemorate the 1,500th anniversary of the landing in Britain of Hengist and Horsa, to-day (Monday) was rowed by its crew of young Danes up the Thames from Tower Bridge to Richmond (Surrey), where a civic reception had been arranged for the modern Vikings. As the longship passed Lambeth, a boatload of 'Ancient Britons - doctors and students from St. Thomas's Hospital - attempted an attack with flour 'bombs', but were intercepted by river police. August 1, 1949. (Photo by Reuterphoto).