Foochow Pole Junk

The Foochow pole junk was a Chinese trading junk associated with Fuzhou (Foochow) on the Min River in Fujian province, named for its tall, pole-like raked masts. It worked the timber and tea trade down the Min and along the China coast in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a high stern, watertight bulkhead construction, and battened lugsails. Western nautical records and museum models, including those documented by maritime collectors of the China coast, preserve its lines. It belongs to the south-China junk family rather than the flat-bottomed northern sand junks.