Talk:Flush deck

History

I deleted the following paragraph for the reasons below: The flushed deck design was introduced with rice ships built in Bengal Subah, Mughal India (modern Bangladesh), resulting in hulls that were stronger and less prone to leak than the structurally weak hulls of traditional European ships built with a stepped deck design. This was a key innovation in shipbuilding at the time. The British East India Company later duplicated the flushed deck design of Bengal rice ships in the 1760s, leading to significant improvements in seaworthiness and navigation for European ships during the Industrial Revolution.[2]

At this point the Viking drakar and the Byzantine dromones can also be considered as flush decks, however, having a free bridge has nothing to do with the strength of the ship. Surely in the middle of the Atlantic I would feel safer on a drakar than in a Bengali rice ship. The quality of the texts to which references are made should be checked. If you check the pdf to the notes (student economic research) you see that the statement is a conjecture of the author.

Please do not remove sourced material. If you have another source contradicting or disputing the sources provided, then please add them so that two sides of an argument can be considered. What you have written above is original research. This is not allowed on Wikipedia. But, please, by all means if you have sources for the above then add them. NarSakSasLee (talk) 23:47, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

I searched for bibliography on "Bengali rice ships" but nothing exists, not even drawings, except for the pdf in question whose considerations are questionable. What kind of ship are they? Are they perhaps generally used teak Dhows? I believe that claiming that not classified types or a hypothetical ethnic boats have brought a mutation of naval techniques during the Industrial Revolution is an true original research. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.34.228.90 (talk) 12:35, 8 December 2019 (UTC)