HISTORY
CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA
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successfully used by the Koreans to conquer many of the Pacific Ocean island chains
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not really ships at all, being built just offshore and resting on the ocean floor
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the worlds first warship to feature iron armor as part of their structure
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The resourceful and talented Korean people who created a 5000-year-long history and brilliant culture built the turtle-shaped armoured warship, an iron-clad ship, in the 15th century. She is the world’s first iron-clad ship, which was built 200-300 years before a foreign iron-clad ship.
Detailed explanation-2: -Geobukseon ("Turtle Ship") of Great Admiral Yi Sun-shin – the combat ship that helped to save Korea. Used by Admiral Yi Sun-shin during the Hideyoshi Invasions in the 16th century, these innovative warships were instrumental in effectively defeating the Japanese invaders.
Detailed explanation-3: -Because of that tactic, the Japanese called the turtle ships the mekurabune (), or “blind ships, ‘’ because they would get close and seemingly blast and ram into enemy ships. The Korean navy employed the Turtle ships in that way during the Dangpo Battle, Battle of Okpo, and Battle of Sacheon (1592).
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1591, with the threat of foreign invasion in mind, Korean Admiral Yi Sunshin collaborated on the design of a vessel called a kobukson, or ‘turtle ship’. The ship was based partly on a design going back to at least the early 16th Century, and partly on the standard Korean warship, the panokseon.
Detailed explanation-5: -Yi was a brilliant strategist who’d seen war coming and had raised private money to construct a small fleet of utterly remarkable ships called Turtle boats. The Turtle was ironclad, and it looked like a hundred-foot-long turtle. It had a low, rounded roof, bristling with spikes to prevent boarding.