Search results for "Junk (ship" - New World Encyclopedia

historically designed to be operated from a ship in an offshore environment. to be carried aboard another vessel (a ship). Notable exceptions to this ...

their leaders. The captain of a pirate ship was often a fierce fighter ... held a nearly sovereign power aboard his ship and many were unafraid to ...

Africa, but after that the Chinese treasure ship fleets were disbanded. Zheng ... century. The travels of the Chinese Junk Keying to the United States ...

(85 feet) long attacked a Nantucket whaling ship Essex. Only 8 out of the 20 ... of the whale and also in the so-called junk, which is right at the front ...

from the earlier term, "line-of-battle ship." The latter term, along ... to be built into the structure of the ship, increasing overall strength. ...

photo of Koreans 1871.jpg|thumb|left|A fishing [[Junk (ship)|junk]] in 1871. The oldest extant photograph showing Koreans.]] In 1392 the throne ...

the Yellow Sea, instructing them to board a ship bound for Ganghwa Island where ... Turtle ship [[Image:Turtle_boat.jpg|thumb|200px|left|The Turtle ship ...

The Qing Dynasty; Manchu: daicing gurun), sometimes known as the Manchu Dynasty, was a dynasty founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro, in what ...

victory. The Tang Dynasty navy had several different ship types at its disposal to engage in naval warfare, these ships described by Li Quan in his Taipai ...

Cooper, in return, wrote, in his essay 'King Junk', ... an accident. That very day, Clark’s ship had an accident that killed ...