Chaika (boat)
Chaika boat (Beauplan's book "Description of Ukraine", 1660) | |
| Development | |
|---|---|
| Year | 1500s |
| Role | Marine warfare/transportation |
| Boat | |
| Crew | 50 or 60 |
| Draft | 4 m (13 ft) (board down) |
| Hull | |
| Type | Monohull |
| Construction | Wood |
| LOA | 20 m (66 ft) |
| Beam | 3.5 m (11 ft) |
A chaika (Russian: чайка,Ukrainian: чайка, chayka, Hungarian: csajka, Polish: czajka, Serbian: шајка / šajka, Slovene: šajka or plitka) was a wooden boat that could have a mast and sail, a type of galley, used in early modern warfare and cargo transport by the:
- Zaporozhian Cossacks in the 16th–17th centuries in Ukraine on the Dnipro River and the Black Sea.
- Serbs in the 16th-19th centuries on the Danube, known as Šajkaši, under the Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire and Habsburgs.
- Slovenes from the 16th to the early 20th century on the Drava River.