TY - GEN
T1 - Traditional ships in East Java and Madura and its relevance to a replica of Majapahit period ships (1300 - 1400)
AU - Johnson, R. M.
AU - Rosyid, D. M.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - An attempt to reconstruct a Majapahit-era (1300-1400) Ship is presented. The study is important in that Majapahit was a Java-based, major maritime power of the then Indonesia with a far reaching influence up to Madagascar and China. A later construction of the ship is planned, and an expedition using the ship is seriously contemplated. The problem is to establish a conceptual and preliminary design of the ship based upon a very limited historical evidence of the ship. The basic feature of the ship can only be speculated from a study of existing Javanese traditional ships, a stone panel of Candi Penataran in East Java, and from several historical texts of "major" and "minor" literatures of the same period of Majapahit. A Javanese jonque is then proposed as a candidate for a cargo carrying Majapahit ship. The jonque is 25m long, double-ended, with two side rudders, 2 masts with tilted rectangular sails, of treenails construction.
AB - An attempt to reconstruct a Majapahit-era (1300-1400) Ship is presented. The study is important in that Majapahit was a Java-based, major maritime power of the then Indonesia with a far reaching influence up to Madagascar and China. A later construction of the ship is planned, and an expedition using the ship is seriously contemplated. The problem is to establish a conceptual and preliminary design of the ship based upon a very limited historical evidence of the ship. The basic feature of the ship can only be speculated from a study of existing Javanese traditional ships, a stone panel of Candi Penataran in East Java, and from several historical texts of "major" and "minor" literatures of the same period of Majapahit. A Javanese jonque is then proposed as a candidate for a cargo carrying Majapahit ship. The jonque is 25m long, double-ended, with two side rudders, 2 masts with tilted rectangular sails, of treenails construction.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77950796554
SN - 9781905040650
T3 - RINA, Royal Institution of Naval Architects - International Conference on Historic Ships 2009 - Papers
SP - 33
EP - 40
BT - RINA, Royal Institution of Naval Architects - International Conference on Historic Ships 2009 - Papers
T2 - International Conference on Historic Ships 2009
Y2 - 19 November 2009 through 20 November 2009
ER -