Who invented ships?

Question

Europe has only soft wood trees.
The ships made of those woods are good for sailing the
Mediterranean or a smaller sea. They are no good for
sailing on the oceans.
Which country has the trees that provide
the hardest wood? India.
Hard woods like devadar, teak and mahogany
are native to India.
Rig Veda mentions ships with 100
oars. Such ships sailed over seven oceans and returned to
India. In the Artha Sastra,
Koutilya wrote about the Board of Shipping and the
Commissioner of Port who supervised sea traffic.
The Buddhist Jataka stories wrote about large Indian ships
carrying seven hundred people.
The ship of Vasco de Gama was about
to collapse when it reached India. It is the Indian marine
engineers who repaired that ship and made it worthy again
for sea travel.
The main item exported by the former British East India
Company was Indian ship. A few of these ships are still in
service, and are used for training cadets of the British
Navy. Can any one dispute this?

Answer 1

depends what you call a ship. Egyptians have the first recorded nautical transportation, but they were nothing more than riverboats.

Answer 2

Who Invented The Ship

Answer 3

Sailors ofcourse,
people have been sailing forever

French cave men crossed the ocean during the last Ice age ,in canoos .identical flint heads and matching genetics have been discovered ,between them and the plains Indios

Irish priest came to America in leather boats ,Phoenicians sailed to America even before that,

Atlantis was a continent shaped like a doughnut with a large inland sea ,and fishing was very popular .also their legends were spread all over the world ,and this could oly be done in ships ,

so sailing has been around as long as Man has ,and from well before the last Ice Age ,
we can safely say that boats were around at least 1/2 a million years ago , probably more than 2 million years.that is the date of a sandal print found in lave

read Kon tiki ,Polenesians were sailing the pacific in boats made from reeds

the people you mention .like Spanish and Portugeese etc ,were primative compared to the early Greeks and earlier Phoenicians.

Asian,and Japanese sailing was also old ,and they got very far ,but there was older and much more sohisticated before that ,
Semuria ,Ur ,Mu .Atlantis .and who knows what else that was Prehistoric ,
there have been found much evidence of a huge civiization that settled in the Amazon Basin 300,000 years ago ,they also came from overseas.

Answer 4

Europe has oak trees, the strongest wood known for boatbuilding ( even better than teak); with some proper care oak timbers will last 100 years, as eveidenced by USS Constitution ( built 1796) and HMS Victory ( built 1764) ....Europe also has larch, hacamatack, elm and yellow pine.....all ( hard) woods used by the Porugesse and Spanish, and then the English latter on, for the backbones and frames of their ships, a

Yes, there are some excellent shipbuilding woods in India......but to say Europe didnt have as good or better before they got to you isn't correct.

Answer 5

The Egyptians invented ships. You do not need hard woods to sail ships.

"Ramses III, who had to contend with the Sea Peoples. Ramses wrote a 'report' to Amen

I built you ships, freight ships, arched ships with rigging, plying the Big Green (the sea). I manned them with archers, captains and innumerable sailors, to bring the goods of the Land of Tyre and the foreign countries at the end of the world to your storage rooms at Thebes the Victorious. "

you can go further back i got to the 20th dynasty that would make it 1500bce but you can go back further.

Also there was a famous voyage in the 1950-60's of a replica boat from Egypt to Brazil.

cheers z

Answer 6

The early men first invented the ship

Answer 7

Hips dont Lie, So it is none than our Hips, it is the place were Bain is located.

CRAZY

Answer 8

Sorry ,I din't make such a big mistake

Answer 9

most likely the Egyptians but no one really knows for sure

Answer 10

the pheronic people , THEY ARE SMART !!!