sea travel

1. PERSENTED BY: RINCY RAJAN

2.  Maritime history is the study of human activity at sea .
 It covers the element of history that often uses a global
approach ,although national and regional histories remain
predominant .
 It is the broad subject that includes fishing ,whaling,
international law, naval history, the history of ships ,ship
designing ,the history of navigation ,sea exploration ,maritime
theme in art etc..
 From last 4500BC sea travel / water transportation was very
important .
 The Age of Discovery was a period from the early 15th century
and continuing into the early 17th century, during
which European ships traveled around the world to search for
new trading routes and partners

4.  A dugout canoe or
simply dugout is a boat made
from a hollowed tree trunk
 Other names for this type of boat
are longboat and monoxylon.
 The first boat are presumed to
have been dugout canoes .
 In Germany they are
called einbaum.
 Dugouts are the
oldest boats archaeologists have
found, dating back about 8,000
years to the Neolithic Stone Age.
 the oldest boat discovered in
Africa,

5.  It is the oldest known types
of boats.
 The earliest discovered remains
from a reed boat are 7000 years
old, found in Kuwait.
 it is common in Ancient Egypt.
 A famous example is the ark of
bulrushes in which the
baby Moses was set afloat.
 Reed boats are still used in
Peru, Bolivia, Ethiopia, and until
recently in Corfu.

6. Often used as traditional fishing boats,
they are still used in a few places around
the world, though they have generally
been replaced with planked boats.
 planked canoes were developed as early
as 8,500 years ago in Southern California.

7.  The Khufu ship is an
intact full-size vessel
from Ancient Egypt that
was sealed into a pit in
the Giza pyramid
complex at the foot of
the Great Pyramid of
Giza around 2500 BC.
 The ship now is
preserved in the Giza
Solar boat museum.
 The ship was almost
certainly built for Khufu

8.  Transportation in the Middle Ages was very
much based on the methods and Innovations
that came before.
 While transportation on land showed a
decline from the prior era, transportation at
sea flourished in the Middle Ages. Many
inventions helped render transportation at sea
much more doable.
 In the Middle Ages, boats were powered by
sails or oars.

9.  Various ships were in use during the middle
age .
 By the 15th century ,Europeans explored the
African coast in search of a water route to
India .
 Within the united states waterways have been
developed and integrated into a world class
transportation system that has been
instrumental in the country’s economic
development
 There are more than 17700km of commercial
important navigation channels in the lower 48
states .

11.  In the Early Middle Ages,
the sailing ship used the
most was a Knarr, which
was a kind of vessel
used for cargo.
 The sailing ship
developed in southern
Europe (particularly
Portugal) in the 15th
century

12. They were invented in
the 8th century and
remained in use for
transportation
throughout the Early
Middle Ages.

13.  Viking ships were marine vessels of particular designs,
used and built by the Vikings during the Viking Age.
 The boat-types were quite varied, depending on what
the ship was intended for, but they were generally
characterized as being slender and flexible boats, with
symmetrical ends with true keel.

15. SS Savannah was an American hybrid
sailing ship/sidewheel steamer built in
1818.
She is notable for being the first steamship
to cross the Atlantic Ocean, a feat that was
accomplished from May to June 1819,
although only a fraction of the distance
was covered with the ship under steam
power

17.  It was the longest passenger ship in the
world from 1845 to 1854
 She was designed by Isambard Kingdom
Brunel for the Great Western Steamship
Company's transatlantic service
between Bristol and New York
 She was the first iron steamer to cross the
Atlantic.
 The ship is 322 ft (98 m) in length and has a
3,400-ton displacement
 Owner: Great Western Steamship Company
 Builder: William Patterson
 Launched:19 July 1843

19. RMS Titanic was a British passenger
liner that sank in the North Atlantic
Ocean in the early morning of 15 April
1912
The RMS Titanic, the largest ship afloat at
the time it entered service
Owner: White Star Line
Route: Southampton to New York City
Builder : Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Launched:31 May 1911

21. MS Allure of the Seas is an Oasis-
class cruise ship owned and operated
by Royal Caribbean International.
The Oasis class are the largest passenger
ships ever constructed
Launched:20 November 2009