List of early warships of Japan

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. This is a list of Japanese warships of the period 1410 - 1639:

  • Atakebune, large coastal warships, some of them ironclad, during the Warring States period (16th-17th century).
  • Red seal ships - A total of around 350 armed trade ships, many of them three-masted, commissioned by the Bakufu for Intra-Asian commerce, in the first half of the 17th century.
  • San Buena Ventura - 120 ton ship built in Japan in 1607 by the English navigator and adventurer William Adams for the Japanese shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.
  • San Juan Bautista - Japanese-built 1613 armed galleon that crossed the Pacific on two occasions.