Boats

By Xabi bavi
  • 4000 BCE

    CORACLE

    CORACLE
    Some of the first boats were made by the
    Egyptians from reeds in around 4000 BC. Even the
    sails were made of reeds.
  • 1000 BCE

    Reed boat

    Reed boat
    The Phoenicians and Greeks added oars to their ships around 1000 BC. Some ships had two or three decks of oars.
  • 1200

    Chinese junk

    Chinese junk
    By 1200 AD the Chinese had added a single steering oar to their large ships called ‘junks’. Sailing ships dominated the seas until paddle steamers were invented in the late 18th century. Brunel built the first steamship made of ironin 1845: the SS Great Britain. It had a six-blade propeller instead ofside paddle wheels.

  • Hovercraft

    Hovercraft
    In the 1950s, the hovercraftwas developed by Christopher
    Cockerell in the UK. It skims over the water on a cushion of air. The Jet Ski was invented in the USA by Clayton Jacobsen in 1973.

  • CURRENT BOATS

    CURRENT BOATS
    The Queen Mary 2 is the largest ship of this kind. It can carry 2,620 passengers and 1,253 crew members.