Shinan ship
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The Shinan ship (also spelled "Sinan") was a 14th-century Chinese ship that sank near what are today the Shinan islands, South Korea, around the year 1323, and was discovered in 1975. It was likely to have been part of a trade fleet between Port Ningbo, Yuan dynasty China and Port Hakata, Kamakura shogunate of Japan.[1][2]
Remains of the Shinan ship | |
History | |
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Yuan China | |
Name | Shinan ship |
Fate | Sank c. 1323 |
Notes | Surviving part of the ship's hull exhibited in a museum |
General characteristics | |
Type | cargo ship |
Length | 32 m (105 ft) |
Beam | 10 m (33 ft) |
Notes | cargo capacity ~200 tons |
Shinan ship | |
Hangul | |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Sinan haejeoyumul maejanghaeyeok |
McCune–Reischauer | Sinan haejŏyumul maejanghaeyŏk |
It has been excavated during several maritime archaeological expeditions from 1976 to 1984. Its excavation has been described as "the first underwater excavation" in South Korea leading to "the advent of underwater archaeology in the history of Korean archaeology". Much of the ship's cargo survived mostly intact, and due to the overwhelming amount of Chinese treasures contained in the ship (over 28 tons of Chinese coins and over 20,000 pieces of Chinese ceramics), in the early 1990s the shipwreck was also described as possibly "the richest ancient shipwreck yet discovered".[3]