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Like all ancestral Austronesian boats, the hull of the bangka at its simplest form had five parts. The bottom part consists of single piece of hollowed-out log (essentially a dugout canoe, the original meaning of the word bangka). [19] At the sides were two planks, and two horseshoe-shaped wood pieces formed the prow and stern.
An example is the Tagalog word libre, which is derived from the Spanish translation of the English word free, although used in Tagalog with the meaning of "without cost or payment" or "free of charge", a usage which would be deemed incorrect in Spanish as the term gratis would be more fitting; Tagalog word libre can also mean free in aspect of ...
It is commonly motorized. It is usually carried aboard larger motherships and assists in transporting passenger and cargo to the shore, as well as in towing the boat to port. However, it can also be used as a small inter-island transport. It is roughly leaf-shaped in outline with a distinctive hump-backed side-profile.
Ibanag balangay (barangayanes) from the Cagayan River in Northern Luzon (c.1917) Illustration of an armed merchant biroko with tanja sails by Rafael Monleón (1890) "Balangay" is a general term and thus applies to several different types of traditional boats in various ethnic groups in the Philippines.
Paraw (also spelled parao) are various double outrigger sail boats in the Philippines. It is a general term (similar to the term bangka ) and thus can refer to a range of ship types, from small fishing canoes to large merchant lashed-lug plank boats ( balangay or baloto ) with two outriggers ( katig ) propelled by sails (usually a large crab ...
1890 illustration by Rafael Monleón of a late 19th-century Iranun lanong warship with three banks of oars under full sail Sketch of a lanong used by Sulu pirates with a boarding platform (c. 1850) Lanong were large outrigger warships used by the Iranun and the Banguingui people of the Philippines .
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A sampan is a relatively flat-bottomed wooden boat found in East, Southeast, and South Asia. It is possibly of Chinese or Austronesian origin. [1] Some sampans include a small shelter on board and may be used as a permanent habitation on inland waters. The design closely resembles Western hard chine boats like the scow or punt.