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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 ...
This was dually met with the introduction of the Han dynasty junk ship design in the same century. The Chinese were using square sails during the Han dynasty and adopted the Austronesian junk sail later in the 12th century. [31]: 20–21 Iconographic remains show that Chinese ships before the 12th century used square sails, and the junk rig of ...
[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.
One of the ships, USS St. Louis, cost $450 million and has been with the fleet for just ... particularly China. The number of U.S. ships in this category went from 318 in 2000 to a post-Cold War ...
The chuan (Chinese Junk ship) design was both innovative and adaptable. Junk vessels employed mat and batten style sails that could be raised and lowered in segments, as well varying angles. [43] The longship was a type of ship developed over a period of centuries and perfected by its most famous users, the Vikings, around the 9th century.