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The manufacturing technology of Chinese watertight bulkhead Fuzhou ship

China has proposed its watertight bulkhead Fuzhou shipbuilding technique as a nomination item for the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, with the following description: The watertight bulkhead Fuzhou shipbuilding technique was developed in Fujian Province in southern China, and it made it possible to build seagoing ships with watertight bulkheads. If one or two cabins were accidentally damaged during the voyage, seawater would not flood into the other cabins and the ship would continue to float. The sailboats were mainly made of camphor, pine and fir wood, and assembled using traditional carpenter's tools. The key technologies required to build this type of sailboat were: mortise and tenon joints, which refer to the tongue-and-groove joints of the planks, and the use of ramie, tung oil, lime and other materials as plugging materials between the planks. The shipbuilding project was directed by a skilled "master head" (a respectful title for the craftsman in charge of shipbuilding in southern Fujian), who supervised a large number of craftsmen who worked closely together. Local communities also participated in the process, holding grand ceremonies during the shipbuilding process and before the new ship was launched to pray for calm seas and the safety of the crew. The experience and working methods of the watertight bulkhead Fuzhou shipbuilding craft were passed down through oral transmission between masters and apprentices. However, as wooden ships were replaced by steel ships, the demand for Chinese junk ships decreased sharply; today, there are only three master craftsmen who fully master this technology; the scarcity of raw materials has also led to an increase in related construction costs, and the spread of this craft tradition has gradually decreased, and the inheritors have been forced to find other jobs.

China

Ocean-going vessel construction

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Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining

The site consists of 23 components, mainly located in southwestern Japan. It bears witness to the country's rapid industrialization from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century through the development of the steel industry, shipbuilding, and coal mining. The site shows how feudal Japan sought to transfer technology from Europe and the United States from the mid-19th century onwards, and how these technologies were adapted to the country's needs and social traditions. The site bears witness to what is considered the first successful transfer of Western industrialization to a non-Western country.

Japan

shipbuilding

Schokland and Surroundings

The Schokland peninsula became an island in the 15th century. Due to sea erosion, Schokland was occupied and then abandoned, and in 1859 people had to evacuate the island. But as the Zuiderzee dried up, Schokland has been part of land reclamation since the 1940s. Schokland retains traces of human habitation from prehistoric times. It symbolizes the Dutch people's heroic and long struggle against sea erosion.

Netherlands

Land reclamation

Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder)

The Beemster Polder was created in the early 17th century as a prime example of land reclamation in the Netherlands. It preserves an orderly landscape of fields, roads, canals, dikes and settlements laid out according to both classical and Renaissance planning principles.

Netherlands

Land reclamation