# Patamar

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{{Short description|Type of Indian dhow (sailboat)}}
thumb|A Patamar
The '''Patamar''' ([Portuguese](/source/Portuguese_language)), ({{langx|en|Pattamar, Patimar}}, {{langx|fr|Patemar, Patmar}}),<ref>Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado, ''Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages'', AES (Reprint Lisbon 1913 edn.) 1988, {{ISBN|812060413X}}</ref> is a type of [Indian](/source/India) [Dhow](/source/Dhow). It was traditionally used in the western coast of the [Indian subcontinent](/source/Indian_subcontinent) as a [cabotage](/source/cabotage) vessel between [Gujarat](/source/Gujarat) and [Ceylon](/source/Ceylon), usually for the transport of [rice](/source/rice). Some can still be seen on the [Malabar Coast](/source/Malabar_Coast).

==Description==
Patamar are commonly between 200 and 300 tons in weight and are rigged with one to three masts bearing [lateen sail](/source/lateen_sail)s.
They feature a peculiarly-shaped keel with a club-shaped end of the bow.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ebook.de/de/product/19830512/henry_coleman_folkard_the_sailing_boat.html;jsessionid=261F3FE84565C4CE5225DF1F548290A2.www04|title=Henry Coleman Folkard: The Sailing Boat (Buch) - portofrei bei eBook.de|website=www.ebook.de|language=de-DE|access-date=2018-03-19}}</ref> The wide stern of the average Patamar is somewhat similar to the [Baghlah](/source/Baghlah), [Sambuk](/source/Sambuk) and [Kotiya](/source/ghanjah) but without a [poop deck](/source/poop_deck), which is replaced by a [bamboo](/source/bamboo) [deck house](/source/deck_house) thatched with [coconut palm](/source/coconut_palm) leaf.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sevenoceans.com/Ships/ShipsByType/Pattamar.htm|title=Pattamar|website=www.sevenoceans.com|access-date=2018-03-19}}</ref>

thumb|Pattamar on a 10 Indian rupee note
A pattamar in full sail appeared on the reverse of the 10 [Indian rupee](/source/Indian_rupee) banknotes that preceded the [Mahatma Gandhi Series](/source/Mahatma_Gandhi_Series_(banknotes)).

==History==
In 1806, ''[Lieutenant de vaisseau](/source/Lieutenant_de_vaisseau)'' [Pierre Bouvet](/source/Pierre_Bouvet) observed the indigenous ships of the Patamar type while a prisoner in Bombay. Back in [Isle de France](/source/Isle_de_France_(Mauritius)) (now [Mauritius](/source/Mauritius)), Bouvet suggested the use of armed Patamars to General [Decaen](/source/Charles_Mathieu_Isidore_Decaen), Governor General of the French possessions in the [East Indies](/source/East_Indies), to conduct reconnaissance and raids on the British.<ref>{{cite book |first=Jean-Michel |last=Roche |year=2005 |title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870 |isbn=978-2-9525917-0-6 |oclc=165892922 |pages=249|publisher=Group Retozel-Maury Millau}}</ref> He was able to have  {{ship|French patamar|Entreprenant|1807|2}} built in 1807 and sailed her on a [privateering](/source/privateering) cruise.

==See also==
*[Dhow](/source/Dhow)

==References==
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== Further reading ==
*Clifford W. Hawkins, ''The dhow: an illustrated history of the dhow and its world''.
==External links==
{{commonscat|Pattamar}}
*[http://www.siffs.org/books/indianboatdesign.pdf The Origins and Ethnological Significance Of Indian Boat Designs - SIFFS]
{{Sailing vessels and rigs}}

Category:Dhow types
Category:Merchant ships of India
Category:Tall ships
Category:Privateer ships

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