Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding refers to the manufacturing of ships. In the past many ships were built in places like Glasgow and Sunderland but in the 21st century this industry is not big in the United Kingdom and most ships are built in South Korea and China. Japan once built the most ships but is now in 3rd place.
Shipbuilding Media
Shipbuilding, Gloucester Harbor, 1873. Wood engraving printed in black ink on wove paper. Winslow Homer, American, 1836-1910.
Generalized diagram (cross-section) of lashed-lug planking in Butuan Boat Two (Clark et al., 1993)
Construction of the Naga Pelangi in 2004, a Malaysian pinas, using traditional Austronesian edge-dowelled techniques. Note the protruding dowels on the upper edges of the planks and the fiber caulking in the seams.
Succession of forms in the development of the Austronesian boat
One of the Javanese Borobudur ships (c. 778–850 AD), depicting a typical Austronesian ship with tanja sails and double outriggers
Illustration of a djong, large Javanese trading vessel, extant until 17th century AD. Shown with the characteristic tanja sail of Southeast Asian Austronesians. Vessels like these became the basis of Southern Chinese junks.
Model of a Fijian drua with a crab-claw sail from the Otago Museum, an example of an Austronesian ocean-going vessel
Shipwrights building a brigantine, 1541
A two-masted Chinese junk, from the Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing, published in 1637
Full size replica of Zheng He's Treasure Ship
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