2. Dug-out Canoes
In ancient maritime
history, the first boats are
presumed to have
been dugout
canoes, developed
independently by various
stone age
populations, and used for
coastal fishing and travel.
A dugout or dugout
canoe is a boat made
from a hollowed tree
trunk.
3. Egyptian Reed Boat (4,000 BC)
•The Ancient
Egyptians had knowledge
of sail construction. This
is governed by the
science of aerodynamics
•-Most probably the first
sailing boat
4. Khufu’s solar boat (2500 B.C.)
This boat is entirely
made out of wood and it
is held together by ropes.
5. Dhow (lateen-sail ship)
In early
modern India and Arabia the la
teen-sail ship known as
the dhow was used on the
waters of the Red Sea, Indian
Ocean, and Persian Gulf.
Dhow (Arabic dāw) is the
generic name of a number of
traditionalsailing vessels with
one or more masts with lateen
sails used in the Red
Sea and Indian Ocean region.
Historians are divided as to
whether the dhow was invented
by Arabs.
6. Medieval Period
There were also Southeast
Asian Seafarers and Polynesians, and the Northern
European Vikings, developed oceangoing vessels and
depended heavily upon them for travel and population
movements prior to 1000 AD.
China's ships in the medieval period were particularly
massive; multi-mast sailing junks were carrying over
200 people as early as 200 AD.
7. Viking Longboats and Chinese
Junks
Viking Longboats Chinese Junks (1,100 A.D.)
(Northern Europe, They were used as fighting
1000A.D.) and transport ships.
These ships used 60 men to
row the ship.
8. Medieval Ships
Various ships were in use
during the Middle Ages.
Longships were sea
vessels made and used
by the Vikings from
the Nordic countriesfor
trade, commerce,
exploration, and warfare
during the Viking
Age although scientific
analysis of the oak
timber shows at least
one well known ship was
built in Dublin, Ireland.
9. Medieval Ships
A knarr is a type
of Norse merchant shi
p famously used by
the Vikings.
10. Medieval Ships
The cog was a design
which is believed to have
evolved from (or at least
been influenced by) the
longship, and was in wide
use by the 12th century. It
too used the clinker
method of construction.
The caravel was a ship
invented in Islamic
Iberia and used in the
Mediterranean from the
13th century.
11. Three & Four Masted Sailing Ships
These wooden ships
were used as
battleships, and for
exploration.
12. SS Savannah
SS Savannah was
an American hybrid s
ailing ship/sidewheel
steamerbuilt in 1818.
She is notable for
being the first
steamship in the
world to cross
the Atlantic Ocean
13. SS Great Britain
The first ocean liners
made of iron and driven
by a propeller.
When launched in
1843, Great Britain was
by far the largest vessel
afloat.
14. The Zoroaster (1870)
The first oil tanker
in the world built
by the Nobel
Brothers
15. RMS Titanic (1912)
RMS Titanic was a
British passenger
liner that sank in the North
Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912
after colliding with
an iceberg during hermaiden
voyage from Southampton, UK
to New York City, US.
Thesinking of Titanic caused
the deaths of 1,502 people in one
of the deadliest peacetime
maritime disasters in modern
history.
The RMS Titanic was the largest
ship afloat at the time of her
maiden voyage.