JAPANESE JUNK

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JAPANESE JUNK

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:01 pm

The Japanese junk was built from the twelfth century and is quite a different vessel from the Chinese junk.
The Japanese junk has a number of apparently archaic features, including the way in which the deck is built out in wings towards the stern, suggesting a one-time steering oar position.
She carried one large square sail on the mainmast, with a small square foresail.
She had the reputation of a poor sailer but was sturdily built and a good sea ship.
The Japanese junk built-in 1850 would not differ greatly from the vessel in service some 600 years earlier
Length around 9.8m. with a beam of 2.4m.
Crew 3.
Used on the Japanese coast as a cargo vessel

Grenada of Grenadines 1995 $1 sg2085, scott1790b
Vietnam 1994 3000d sg 1458, scott 2520.

Source: Liners, Tankers & Merchant Ships by Robert Jackson
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