*Some of these questions may require some research on your own.
- What is presumed to be the first form of water transportation?
- What is a dugout made from?
- What was probably the first sailing boat?
- Who made the first sailing boat?
- What is the name of the boat that was held together only by ropes?
- Do all historians agree as to who invented the Dhow (lateen-sail ship)?
- What were ships used for during the Medieval Period?
- How many people were needed to row the Viking Longboats?
- Chinese Junks were used for what around 1,100 A.D.?
- What do scientists study to find out how old and where a particular ship was made and when?
- What is the name of the people presumed to have used longships during the middle ages?
- What is merchant shipping?
- What is the name of the ship Vikings used for merchant shipping?
- What is the clinker method of construction?
- What is a caravel ship?
- What is a mast on a ship?
- What were three and four-masted sailing ships used for?
- What was the first steamer built a ship that was the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean?
- What year did this ship cross the Atlantic Ocean?
- Who made this steamer built ship?
- What year were the first ocean liners set afloat?
- What were these ocean liners made of?
- What were they driven by?
- What is a propeller?
- Who were the Nobel Brothers?
- What industry did the work in?
- What year was the first oil tanker used?
- What is the name of the passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in April 1912?
- What did the Titanic hit that made it sink?
- How many people died in this disaster?
- What does the maiden voyage mean?
- What country built the first seaplane carrier?
- What is a modern passenger ship used for?
- Name 3 modern warships?
- What are modern cargo ships used for?
