List of longest wooden ships: Difference between revisions

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|<small>[[Javanese people|Javanese]] seagoing [[junk (ship)|junk]] type claimed to carry up to 1000 passengers. Though the early 16th century Portuguese did not record exact sizes, they remarked that the ships were so monstrously big that ''[[Flor de la Mar|Flor do Mar]]'' and ''Anunciada'' (the largest Portuguese ships of the time) did not seem ships when next to them.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|last=Cortesão|first=Armando|url=https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-136385-182|title=The Suma oriental of Tomé Pires : an account of the East, from the Red Sea to Japan, written in Malacca and India in 1512-1515; and, the book of Francisco Rodrigues, rutter of a voyage in the Red Sea, nautical rules, almanack and maps, written and drawn in the East before 1515 volume I|publisher=The Hakluyt Society|year=1944|isbn=9784000085052|location=London}} {{PD-notice}}</ref> Irawan Djoko Nugroho estimate it to be 4–5 times the length of ''Flor do Mar'', which was about 36 m long (Malaysian reconstruction).<ref name=":0" /> His estimation has been contested as it is not based on engineering grounds, Muhammad Averoes estimated it with an LOA of 88.56 m and LOD of 80.51 m.<ref name=":1" /></small>

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|c. {{convert|135|by|55|m|ft}},<ref>''[[History of Ming]]'' 《明史》, [[Zhang Tingyu]] (chief editor), published 1737, “四十四丈一十八丈”.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Needham |first=Joseph |year=1971 |title=Science and Civilization in China Volume 4 Part 3 |location=Cambridge, England |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=480}}</ref>{{dubious|date=August 2018}}<br>{{cvt|70|m}} long (modern estimate)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://epaper.tyrbw.com/tywb/resfile/2022-07-12/21/tywb2022071221.pdf |title =郑和大号宝船到底有多大？ (How big was Zheng He's large treasure ship?) |last1=Ling |first1=Xue |editor1-last=Li |editor1-first=Ma |editor2-last=Limin |editor2-first=Wu |editor3-last=Xiuling |editor3-first=Pei |work=扬子晚报 (Yangtze Evening News) |date=2022-07-12 }}</ref>