Panokseon, upper-deck warship
Panokseon, buque de guerra de cubierta superior
- Date
- 1555 · confidence medium
- Place
- Yeosu, South Jeolla, South Korea
- Credited to
- Joseon navy
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A flat-bottomed ship with a two-deck superstructure, oars and sails, which carried cannon along its sides and a protected fighting platform. It was the main warship of the Joseon fleet and the basis of Yi Sun-sin's tactics.
The first panokseon is dated to 1555 in the Annals of Myeongjong, within the naval reform before the war of 1592. Its place of construction is not known precisely.
What it led to
- Yi Sun-sin's naval victories in 1592-1598
- the turtle ship (geobukseon), derived from its hull
- a model for naval artillery in shallow coasts