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All Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Small or traditionally built watercraft that predate, or stand apart from, industrial-era shipbuilding: dugout and outrigger canoes, the dhow and the Chinese junk among traditional sail and paddle craft found across many maritime cultures. Belongs here: canoes, dhows, junks and similar traditionally built vessels regardless of era, including where a traditional design remains in use today. Does not belong here: industrial-era cargo or passenger vessels built to Western commercial shipping conventions, even when sail-powered, such as the clipper, which is grouped under cargo and merchant vessels because its role and construction tradition are commercial rather than traditional.

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Era of Emergence
8040 BCE 1
All Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft
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Balsa Raft

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Bangka (boat)

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Birchbark Canoe

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Bireme

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Caravel

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Carrack

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Chinese Junk

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Cog

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Coracle

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Currach

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Dhow

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Dugout Canoe

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Felucca

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Galleass

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Ghanjah

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Golden Hind

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Gondola (Boat)

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

HMS Victory

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Junk (ship)

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Karve

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Kayak

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Knarr

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Longship

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Masula Boat

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Mayflower

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Outrigger Canoe

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Pinisi

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Pirogue

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Proa

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Reed Boat

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Sampan

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Santa Maria (ship)

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Trireme

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Umiak

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Uru (boat)

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

USS Constitution

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Viking Longship

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Waka (Canoe)

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft

Xebec

Traditional and Pre-Industrial Watercraft
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Pesse canoe
WikipediaPesse canoe, lead section, radiocarbon dating sentence
Quote, Pesse canoe, lead section, radiocarbon dating sentence
Carbon dating indicates that the boat was constructed during the early Mesolithic period between 8040 BC and 7510 BC.
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