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by aukepalmhof » Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:07 pm
The BATTEEL is better known as BATIL and was used in the Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf.
She was a fast low coaster, and sometimes used as a pirate vessel, later the larger vessels were used by the Arabian Chief for state occasions.
The second half of the 20 century the type demised, and then used mostly as pearling vessels.
Details vary, but the characteristically had an elongated straight raking bow with an oval disc atop the stern head, except on Iranian vessels. Sharp stern with high vertical sternpost that in some areas carried a forward-projecting ornament resembling a dog’s head.
After third of the keel sloped upward and extended beyond the sternpost.
Keel on some roughly one-third the length of the vessel.
Rudder hung below and under the keel; the rudder was worked with lines that ran from the quarters to a short spar affixed to the outer edge of the rudder just above the waterline; tall ruderhead.
Decked at ends, the larger ships fully decked.
Ribs at waist extended above the top strake.
Hull oiled and varnished.
Stylized decorations at bow and stern.
The ship on the stamp, two masted, hoisted quadrilateral lateen-sails with a short luff forward-raking masts, the mizzen sail is mostly smaller.
Could during calms propelled by sweeps.
Crew 10 – 20, up to 45 when pearling.
Lengths 14.6 – 23 metres, widths 2.8 – 4.9 metres and depth 1.2 – 2.1 metres.
A type of BATIL is still in use on the Musandan Peninsula beaches of northern Oman.
Kuwait 1970 20f sg483, scott?
