• the 1459 Fra Mauro map reports that "a junk from India" rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1420, around 70 years before the navigations of Vasco da Gama?
• Keying was a three-masted Chinese junk, which sailed from China to the United States and England between 1846 and 1848?

Facts on topics related to Junk (sailing)

Sailing ship

• Savannah (pictured), the world's first steamship to cross the Atlantic, was converted into a sailing ship on returning from her historic voyage?
• the barque Parma (pictured) recorded the fastest ever time for a sailing ship from Australia to the United Kingdom?
• the Albatros was the last sailing ship in European waters carrying commercial cargo?
• when the Texan schooner Austin (pictured) led the brig Wharton and several Yucatecan ships to victory over a Mexican fleet in the Battle of Campeche in 1843, it was the only time that steam-driven warships were defeated by sailing ships?

Dinghy sailing

• a Jacksnipe is a two-man racing sailing dinghy created in 1968 by prolific boat designer Jack Holt?