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A junk (Chinese: 船; pinyin: chuán) is a type of Chinese sailing ship characterized by a central rudder, an overhanging flat transom, watertight bulkheads, and a flat-bottomed design. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are also characteristically built using iron nails and clamps. [ 1 ]
The Keying was a Chinese ship that employed a junk sailing rig. Scale model of a Tagalog outrigger ship with junk sails from Manila, 19th century. The junk rig, also known as the Chinese lugsail, Chinese balanced lug sail, or sampan rig, is a type of sail rig in which rigid members, called battens, span the full width of the sail and extend the sail forward of the mast.
The lorcha is a type of sailing vessel having a junk rig with a Cantonese or other Chinese-style batten sails on a Portuguese or other European-style hull. The hull structure made the lorcha faster and able to carry more cargo than the normal junk. The advantage of the junk rig was in its ease of handling and resulting reduced crewing ...
The size, armament, and mission of the Type 055 are often compared to the US Navy's Ticonderoga-class cruiser.Measuring 567 feet long, displacing around 10,000 tons, and first entering service in ...
A ship whose hull is fitted underneath with shaped vanes (foils) which lift the hull out of the water at speed. Ironclad A wooden warship with external iron plating Junk A Chinese sailing ship that widely used in ancient far east and South China sea which includes many variants such as Fu Ship, Kwong Ship. Karve A small type of Viking longship ...
Ultimately, the Chinese opted to pursue a new design for its next replenishment ships: the Type 903-class oiler. These ships can carry around 11,000 tons of cargo, including some 10,000 tons of fuel.
[25]: 179 [26]: 599, 612–613 [27]: 191–192 Junk rigs were adopted by the Chinese by around the 12th century. [28] Iconographic remains show that Chinese ships before the 12th century used square sails. [29]: 456–457, plate CDIII–CDVI It also further diffused into other East Asian shipbuilding traditions, notably Japan. [30]
Keying (Chinese: 耆 英, p Qíyīng) was a three-masted, 800-ton Fuzhou Chinese trading junk which sailed from China around the Cape of Good Hope to the United States and Britain between 1846 and 1848. Her voyage was significant as it was one of the earliest instances of a Chinese sailing vessel making a transoceanic journey to the Western world.