The Alkedo shipwreck, 1st century AD, discovered in Pisa. This wreck is so well preserved we even know what the name of the ship likely was: in a tablet nailed to one of the rowers' benches the name ALK(E)DO (seagull) can in fact be read. It was painted, as shown in the replica.

Map of the diffusion of "en tortue" type buttons in Bell Beaker Europe, c. 24th-21st century BC.

Hand cannon from a Yuan Dynasty shipwreck discovered off the coast of Takashima (Japan) dating to the second half of the 13th c. AD. The ship was probably part of of one of the fleets that invaded Japan in either 1274 or 1281.

The Ratu Finau Drua, a Fijian double-hulled boat built in 1913 under the directions of a master canoe builder named Ratu Finau Ulugalala. It's 13.43 m long, small by drua standards, and is currently housed at the Fiji Museum in Suva.

A fleet of drua off the coast of Ovalau Island, Fiji. Painting by J. Glen Wilson, 1856. Walter Lawry reported that in 1847 Thakombau sailed out with not less than 200 warriors on board each canoe.

Two large single - hulled sailing crafts belonging to the natives of Tonga, from an engraving of Anamocka Island (Tonga) in François Valentijn's book, Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, 1721.

Amber imitation of ornamented British-type Early Bronze Age bronze flat axes. Found at Ejerslev Vang, Mors, NW Jutland (Denmark), c. 2100-1700 BC. From: Vandkilde et al., 2024, Metal-for-Amber in the European Bronze Age.

Model of an Ainu sewn boat, 19th century, Tokyo National Museum, Japan. The Ainu used sewn-plank boats both for fishing and for trading with Mainland Asia and the rest of Japan. Their vessels were usually propelled both by oars and a sail.