A ship on a port is safe
“A ship on a port is safe. But that’s what not ships are developed for.”
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Ancient Egyptians were the first to master the use of boats. Egyptian rock drawings show canoes, dugouts, rafts around 6000 BC.
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The first sails were fashioned out of animal skins and fixed to rafts to harness the power of the wind for the drive.
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There is a deception of a stern-mounted rudder on a first-century AD pottery model of a Chinese junk, which is now in Kuangchow National Museum.
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The first steamboat was successfully trialed in 1787 by American clockmaker John Fitch.
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In 1811, the first Mississippi paddle-wheel steamboats were used.
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In 1865, El Horria was the first cruise ship. It is now berthed in Alexandria, Egypt, renamed as SS Mahroussa and used as a state school ship.
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Robert Nobel owned the first oil tanker named Zoroastra. It was launched on the Caspian Sea in the late 1870s.
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India has 14,500 km of passable waterways, sharing about 1% of the country’s transportation.
9. There are nearly 55,000 commercial ships covering the water surface.
10. America’s Cup is awarded to the winner of a series of races between sailing yachts. Originally awarded in 1851, it is the oldest international sporting trophy in the world.
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