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A side-by-side comparison between Indian and European ships as described by Vasco Da Gama: https://twitter.com/BharadwajSpeaks/status/1385186951221833728
Nicole de Conti in 1420 CE: "The native of India build some ships larger than ours, capable of containing 2,000 butts. Some ships are so built in compartments that should one part be shattered, the other portion remaining, the same may accomplish the voyage".
Such was the fame of Indian shipbuilding capabilities that they were studied and acquired by the famed Chinese Admiral Zheng He, who sent his famous chronicler and interpreter Ma Huan, to Bengal’s shipbuilding yards, during the Ming dynasty in the early 15th century.
F. Baltazar Salvyus, a Frenchman from 1811 CE exclaimed with wonder : “In ancient times, the Indians excelled in the art of constructing vessels… "
....can still offer models to Europe, so much so that the English, attentive to everything which relates to naval architecture, have borrowed many improvements from them which they have adopted with success to their own shipping.”
