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2. Chinese treasure ship - Wikipedia

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   A Chinese treasure ship (simplified Chinese: 宝船; traditional Chinese: 寶船; pinyin: bǎochuán, literally "gem ship" [14]) is a type of large wooden Chinese junk in the fleet of admiral Zheng He, who led seven voyages during the early 15th-century Ming dynasty.

3. Princess Taiping (sailing vessel) - Wikipedia

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   The Princess Taiping (Chinese: 太平公主; pinyin: Tàipíng Gōngzhǔ) was a replica of a Ming Dynasty Chinese junk built for a sailing trip from China to the United States and back. [1] The ship sank approximately 42 nautical miles (78 km) from its final destination on Saturday, 25 April 2009. [2]

4. Junk (ship) - Wikipedia

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   In 1955, six young men sailed a Ming dynasty-style junk from Taiwan to San Francisco. The four-month journey aboard the Free China was captured on film and their arrival into San Francisco made international front-page news. The five Chinese-born friends saw an advertisement for an international trans-Atlantic yacht race, and jumped at the ...

5. Naval history of China - Wikipedia

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   A Song dynasty junk ship, 13th century; Chinese ships of the Song period featured hulls with watertight compartments. When the British Royal Navy encountered the Chinese during the First Opium War , their officers noted the appearance of paddle-wheel boats among the Chinese fleet, which they took to be copies of a Western design.

6. Kingdom of Tungning - Wikipedia

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   The Kingdom of Tungning started out as a Ming dynasty loyalist movement led by Zheng Chenggong, known in Dutch sources as Koxinga, the son of former pirate turned general, Zheng Zhilong. [16] After reconciling with the Ming government, Zhilong moved his headquarters from Taiwan to Fujian.

7. Ming treasure voyages - Wikipedia

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   The Ming treasure voyages were maritime expeditions undertaken by Ming China's treasure fleet between 1405 and 1433. The Yongle Emperor ordered the construction of the fleet in 1403. The grand project resulted in seven far-reaching ocean voyages to the coastal territories and islands of the South China Sea and Indian Ocean .