Some wooden ships, like the USS Constitution, have an incredible history, but that's also true of the largest ever constructed, the SS Wyoming. The Wyoming was a schooner built in 1909 ...

If accurate, these dimensions would signal the biggest wooden ships ever built. Only the mightiest wooden warships of the Victorian age approached these lengths, and several of these vessels ...

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How did the Chinese shipbuilders construct and operate wooden ships that were 40 percent longer and 65 percent wider than the largest wooden ships known to have been built at any time anywhere else?