Facts On Chinese Junk An Ancient Chinese Ship For Kids
Ocean-going commercial junks traveled for centuries across Southeast Asia, China, India, and as far as Africa in the 1400s.Chinese junks were the world’s most vital, largest, and seaworthy ships of the time. They were hundreds of yards long in some cases.The sails, which have a line of horizontal supports called battens, are one of the first things you think of in Chinese junk boats. Battens made sails extremely resistant to breakage and enabled them to be quickly and efficiently reduced if the weather or wind became too much to handle....