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The stilt supported bungalow growing out of the sea


10
07
2021
Influenced by the many tales that were told of lighthouses and their keepers, any mention of the word “lighthouse” through much of my younger days would conjure up images of large waves breaking against a lighthouse’s rocky foundations, and of lighthouse keepers with weather-worn faces dressed in their oilskins. I have formed quite a different impression of lighthouses over the years at least of the ones in Singapore where it isn’t quite as chilly enough to be comfortable in oilskins and where the seas, with the exception of that around Horsburgh Lighthouse during the Northeast Monsoons, are much less tempestuous. What has helped in forming that altered impression were visits to Raffles Lighthouse at Singapore’s southernmost island Pulau Satumu and the numerous occasions on which I had set eyes on the lighthouse on Sultan Shoal, which I first spotted from the days when I was involved in ship trail trips as a naval architect. ....

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遇见世遗|福船谈概 - 福州

明朝倭患从朱元璋创立明王朝的洪武初年就时有发生,到嘉靖年间为患最烈。在长达数十年的剿倭战争中,涌现了两个抗倭英雄:陆上的戚继光,海上的俞大猷。 俞大猷(1503 1579),福建晋江人,虽世袭武职,却是个文武兼备的将才。在剿杀倭寇战争中,他认识到,“贼所忌者,福船也!”所以,他特别注重福船的建造,擅长在战争中发挥福船的绝对优势。那么,被倭寇所惧怕的福船从何而来,又都是在哪建造的呢?俞大猷在给他上级的一公函上说:“闽中造船,俱在省城西门外二十里之地,名曰洪塘。”根据俞大猷的记述,那时南直隶(今江苏、上海一带)、浙江和福建的水军战船都装备了福船,它们都是在福州城西闽江边洪塘这个地方建造和修整的。明朝抗倭水军驾驶这种建造于福州的主力战船在海战中能够发挥巨大的优势,当时的明朝人 ....

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