Original scientific paper
Korčula’s Shipbuilding: Gajeta Korčulanka - the Best Small Wooden Ship Form at the Adriatic Sea
Roko MARKOVINA
; Department of Naval Architecture, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval, Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Abstract
This paper presents the results of research into the beginnings of navigation and shipbuilding in the Adriatic Sea area, dating, according to the recent archaeological results, from the period between 8th and 7th millennium B.C. The author analyzed possible ship forms at the beginning of trans-Adriatic navigation during that historical period, as well as the main characteristics of the Gajeta Korčulanka, which proved to be the most successful form among all small wooden fi shing
boats not only in the Adriatic, but also in the Mediterranean Sea.
Keywords
form; Gajeta Korčulanka; navigation; shipbuilding
Hrčak ID:
87323
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Publication date:
17.9.2012.
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