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27-523: Historically, Al Jaddaf, which literally means The Rower , was used as a dhow building area and is also the location of the Dubai Ship Docking Yard (Jadaf). Its shipyards are today a site for the building and maintenance of these traditional boats, and Dubai Maritime City is also a site where dhow boats are repaired. Al Jaddaf also houses the sports grounds and facilities of Al Wasl FC and Dubai Officers Club. Another important landmark

54-706: A Sculpture Park, the D1 tower (based on the Q1 building on the Gold Coast in Queensland , Australia), Manazel Al Khor, and Palazzo Versace Dubai . This United Arab Emirates location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dhow Dhow ( / d aʊ / ; Arabic : داو , romanized :  dāw ) is the generic name of a number of traditional sailing vessels with one or more masts with settee or sometimes lateen sails, used in

81-741: A single word, "dhow". At the same time, neither the Arabs nor the Indians use the term "dhow" to refer to their vessels collectively. The collective terms used in Arabic for ships are markab or khashab , and the Qur'an uses the term fulk. On the other hand, the peoples of the Indian Ocean use separate special names for each type of ship, differing from each other mainly not in sailing rigging, but in size, hull design and number of masts The exact origins of

108-471: Is Al Wasl hospital – now named as Latifa hospital. New developments in the area include Dubai Culture Village (aka Jaddaf Waterfront ), a zoned community dedicated to visual, performing and literary arts, and the second phase of Dubai Healthcare City . This area is still developing into a hotel hub with up to five hotels at present in construction and three hotels built, namely Marriott Al Jadaf, Reflection Hotel Apartments and Arabian Park Hotel. The area

135-675: Is also being developed as a residential location, with more than three residential apartments. Al Jaddaf has two metro stations, Creek (near the Al Jaddaf Marine Station on Dubai Creek ) and Al Jadaf station, both on the Green Line of the Dubai Metro , which is controlled by the Dubai Road and Transport Authority (RTA). As of 2017, there is a large dhow being constructed in the area, intended to break

162-560: Is mention, in 1307, of larger caravels of up to 30 tons in Biscay . Caravels were a common type of vessel in the coastal waters of the Iberian Peninsula in the fifteenth century. The caravel was the preferred vessel of Portuguese explorers like Diogo Cão , Bartolomeu Dias , Gaspar , and Miguel Corte-Real , and was also used by Spanish expeditions like those of Christopher Columbus . They were agile and easier to navigate than

189-719: The Santa María was a small carrack of about 150 tons and served as the flagship, the Pinta and Niña were caravels of around 15–20 m with a beam of 6 m and a displacement of around 60–75 tons. Towards the end of the 15th century, the Portuguese developed a larger version of the caravel, bearing a forecastle and sterncastle – though not as high as those of a carrack, which would have made it unweatherly – but most distinguishable for its square-rigged foremast , and three other masts bearing lateen rig. In this form it

216-507: The Red Sea and Indian Ocean region. Typically sporting long thin hulls, dhows are trading vessels primarily used to carry heavy items, such as fruit, fresh water, or other heavy merchandise, along the coasts of Eastern Arabia , Iran , East Africa , Yemen and coastal South Asia ( Pakistan , India , Bangladesh ). Larger dhows have crews of approximately thirty and smaller ones typically around twelve. There are several versions of

243-807: The Red Sea slave trade and the Indian Ocean slave trade , which the Royal Navy attempted to suppress. In his 1873 book, Captain G. L. Sulivan described "four different kinds of coasting dhows, as shown in the engravings, viz. the Bateele, the Badane, Bugala or genuine Dhow, and the Matapa boat". In the 1920s, British writers identified Al Hudaydah as the centre for dhow building. Those built in Al Hudaydah were smaller in size, and used for travel along

270-440: The caravela tilhlda of the 15th century had an average length of between 12 and 18 m (39 and 59 ft), an average capacity of 50 to 60 tons, a high length-to-beam ratio of around 3.5 to 1, and narrow ellipsoidal frame (unlike the circular frame of the nau ), making them very fast and maneuverable but with a limited cargo capacity. It was in such ships that Christopher Columbus set out on his expedition in 1492, while

297-704: The dhoni used in the Maldives, as well as the tranki , ghrab and ghalafah . All these vessels have common elements with the dhow. On the Swahili Coast , in countries such as Kenya, the Swahili word used for dhow is "jahazi". The Kuwaiti Maritime Museum in Salmiya , Kuwait, holds replicas of a number of different types of dhows. The Al-Hashemi-II (1997-2001), in Kuwait City , Kuwait,

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324-656: The kamal , an observation device that determines latitude by finding the angle of the Pole Star above the horizon . The term "dhow" is sometimes also applied to certain smaller lateen-sail rigged boats traditionally used in the Red Sea , the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf area, as well as in the Indian Ocean from Madagascar to the Bay of Bengal . These include the feluccas used in Egypt, Sudan and Iraq, and

351-594: The Portuguese and Spanish for the voyages of exploration during the 15th and 16th centuries, in the Age of Discovery . The long development of the caravel was probably influenced by various Mediterranean tending or coastal craft. Among these influences might have been the boats known as qârib , that were introduced to the Islamic controlled parts of Iberia Al-Andalus from the Maghreb . The earliest caravels appeared in

378-511: The barca and barinel , with a tonnage of 50 to 160 tons and 1 to 3 masts . Being smaller and having a shallow keel , the caravel was suited for sailing shallow coastal waters and up rivers. With the Mediterranean-type lateen sails attached it was highly maneuverable in shallow waters, while with the square Atlantic-type sails attached it was very fast when crossing the open sea. Its economy, speed, and agility made it esteemed as

405-462: The best sailing vessel of its time. Its main drawback was its limited capacity for cargo and crew but this did not hinder its success. The exploration done with caravels made the spice trade of the Portuguese and the Spanish possible. However, for the trade itself, the caravel was soon replaced by the larger carrack ( nau ), which could carry larger, more profitable cargoes. The caravel was one of

432-589: The coasts. They were constructed of acacia found in Yemen. They are distinguishable for their smaller triangular sails on movable bases to harvest the irregular winds of the Red Sea. Captain Alan Villiers (1903–1982) documented the days of sailing trade in the Indian Ocean by sailing on dhows between 1938 and 1939 taking numerous photographs and publishing books on the subject of dhow navigation. Even to

459-518: The dhow are lost to history. Most scholars believe that it originated in India from 600 BC to 600 AD, although there are some who claim that the sanbuk, a type of dhow, may be derived from the Portuguese caravel . However, Portuguese caravels only appeared in the area in the late 15th century. The dhow was the ship of trade first used by the Somalis . The Somali people who are known to have

486-612: The oldest surviving dhow which is called Beden , have traded with the ancient world from Egypt, Babylon, as well as the civilizations of the far east, carrying valuable frankincense , myrrh , gold , etc. It was the Somali merchants that first introduced exotic animals from Africa to the Ming Dynasty . The dhow was used to transport giraffe to the Chinese Emperor Yong Le 's court, in 1414. Another source suggests

513-613: The origin of the word "dau". Previously, it was believed that it could be of Arabic or Persian origin (and although in the 21st century there is no such word in either Arabic or Persian, some Dutch documents from the 17th-18th centuries indicate that then the Persian word dawh meant "small ship"). Recently, most researchers are inclined to believe that this term comes from the language of the East African Swahili people, in which daw means "vessel". However, regardless of

540-678: The pinnacle ships in Iberian ship development from 1400 to 1600 . The English name caravel derives from the Portuguese caravela , which in turn may derive from the Latin : carabus or the Greek : κάραβος perhaps indicating some continuity of its carvel build through the ages. The earliest caravels in the thirteenth century were small and are believed to have been un-decked, carrying one mast with lateen sails, while later types were larger and had two or three masts and decks. Caravels such as

567-502: The present day, dhows make commercial journeys between the Persian Gulf and East Africa using sails as their only means of propulsion . Their cargo is mostly dates and fish to East Africa and mangrove timber to the lands in the Persian Gulf . They often sail south with the monsoon in winter or early spring, and back again to Arabia in late spring or early summer. For celestial navigation, dhow sailors have traditionally used

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594-459: The ship that carried the giraffe to China was part of a large Chinese fleet led by Zheng He . Ships that are similar to the dhow are mentioned or described in the 1001 Nights including various ports where they harboured. The dhow is also associated with the pearl trade. The Yemeni Hadhrami people , as well as Omanis , for centuries came to Beypore , in Kerala , India for their dhows. This

621-504: The sources of its origin, the use of "dhow" as a collective term to refer to the boats of the Indian Ocean with characteristic "Arabian" sails, was introduced definitely by Europeans. Since in the European tradition ships were classified mainly according to their sailing equipment, all the ships of the Indian Ocean that carried similar Arabian sails and looked more or less the same to the untrained European eye were known to as Europeans using

648-420: The thirteenth century along the coasts of Galicia and Portugal as single-masted fishing vessels. They were small, lightly built vessels of up to 20 tons at most, carrying, in one example, a crew of five men. Evidence suggests that these were open boats . They carried a single-masted, triangular lateen sail rig. By the fourteenth century, their size had increased and their use had spread; for instance, there

675-616: The world record for size currently held by Kuwait . Also located on Dubai Creek is the Mohammed Bin Rashid Library . The Jaddaf Waterfront (aka Culture Village ) is a development in Al Jaddaf, located on Dubai Creek . It covers an area of around three million square metres (32,000,000 sq ft) and includes cultural and exhibition centres, a dockside development, and a harbour. There are commercial, residential, and retail districts. Projects include

702-581: Was because of the good timber in the Kerala forests, the availability of good coir rope, and the skilled shipwrights. In former times, the sheathing planks of a dhow's hull were held together by coconut rope. Beypore dhows are known as ' Uru ' in Malayalam , the local language of Kerala. Settlers from Yemen, known as 'Baramis', or 'Daramis' which could be derived from the word 'Hardamis' are still active in making urus in Kerala. Dhows were extensively used for

729-412: Was recognized by Guinness World Record as the largest wooden dhow ever built; it has never been floated and is used for events. Caravel The caravel ( Portuguese : caravela , IPA: [kɐɾɐˈvɛlɐ] ) is a small sailing ship that uses both lateen and square sails and was known for its agility and speed and its capacity for sailing windward ( beating ). Caravels were used by

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