Chaika (boat)

Chaika
Chaika boat (Beauplan's book "Description of Ukraine", 1660)
Development
Year1500s
RoleMarine warfare/transportation
Boat
Crew50 or 60
Draft4 m (13 ft)
(board down)
Hull
TypeMonohull
ConstructionWood
LOA20 m (66 ft)
Beam3.5 m (11 ft)
17th century woodcut showing Zaporozhian Cossacks in chaikas, destroying the Turkish fleet and capturing Caffa in 1616.

A chaika (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:

  1. ^ Baš, Angelos (2003). "Šajkarstvo na Slovenskem". Traditiones (in Slovenian and English). 32 (1). COBISS 21585965.