A ship in stormy seas depicted on the back of a bronze mirror of Thang, Wu Tai or Sung date (>9th or >12th century AD). The inscription on the bellying square-sail reads: 'The Inspector of Thien-hsing city in More
A four-masted jong (Javanese junk) being chased by a Portuguese vessel, in Nuño García de Toreno’s map of 1522. This scene likely depict a junk encountered near Polvoreira (likely Pulau Berhala, 160 miles from More
A seventeenth century Portuguese depiction of a Chinese junk (also referred to as "soma") and a type of light Malayan vessel, dubbed lanchara. Retrieved from the work by Manuel Godinho de Éredia, Description o More
Identifier: manuponseaorhist00good (find matches) Title: Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... Year: 1858 (1850s) A More