The exhibition shows a cross-section of Kor\u010dula\u2019s wooden shipbuilding through history and is divided into several areas: the history of shipbuilding from the 13th century, shipyards, sailing ships, shipbuilders, motor ships, tools, and documents. All texts are also translated into English.<\/p>\n
On Mediterranean Day, the Cultural Center of Kor\u010dula will bring students to see the exhibition and introduce them to the history of wooden shipbuilding in Kor\u010dula.<\/p>\n
History<\/strong>: In 1418, the building of a boat of the carac type was mentioned. In 1420, Kor\u010dula came under the authority of Venice, when it had already developed its shipbuilding. Venice granted considerable political autonomy to the city, but it imposed economic limitations, primarily to hinder the competition of the Kor\u010dula shipyards with the Venetian arsenal. Kor\u010dula shipbuilders have done a lot of work for their Dubrovnik customers, particularly until a shipyard was started at Gru\u017e, since then the Republic of Dubrovnik has tended to protect it from the competition from Kor\u010dula. Indeed, in 1569, the Government of the Republic banned the ordering of ships outside their own shipyards (Gru\u017e and Lopud).<\/p>\n The development of shipbuilding in Kor\u010dula in the following centuries, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, can best be seen in the \u201cMemoir\u201d of the Bank of St. Joseph published in 1868. Going through that document, we shall find the following. Between 1778 and 1815, not a single ship was built in Kor\u010dula owing to the dramatic political events in Europe. In the period between 1787 and 1797, while Kor\u010dula was under Venetian rule, a very small number of shipbuilders left Kor\u010dula (they were exempted from military service), but after the fall of Venice that number increased to reach its peak between 1859 and 1867 when out of the labor force of 505, 404 shipyard workers were absent, with only 100 remaining in the shipyard. The shipbuilding in Kor\u010dula reached its peak in the 19th century between 1849 and 1859, when 9.752 ships of different sizes were constructed in comparison with the years 1859 and 1867, with only 2.400 ships built. Although the first ship driven by an engine appeared in 1807, this significant change had not affected the shipbuilding industry in Kor\u010dula until the 1870s of that century.<\/p>\n In the second half of the 19th century, Kor\u010dula shipyards produced over twenty sailing ships between 30 and 550 tons, which was a considerable success. The largest sailing ship constructed in Kor\u010dula was a \u201cbark\u201d called \u201cFratelli Fabris\u201d of 550 tons, 44 meters long by 9 meters wide and 6 meters high. Besides the mentioned places abroad, Kor\u010dula shipbuilders founded shipyards along the Adriatic Coast. Thus, in Kotor, the shipbuilder Gjurgjevi\u0107 was operating his craft, Depolo in Split, Depolo in Stari Grad, Vilovi\u0107 in Orebi\u0107, Pran\u010di\u0107 and Milu\u0161i\u0107 at Bijela, Filippi in Betina, Sambrailo in Vela Luka, Filippi at Pro\u017eura, the island of Mljet, Du\u017eevi\u0107 and Filippi at Hodilje near Ston.<\/p>\n The shipbuilding industry in Kor\u010dula and its workmen gave a significant contribution during World War II, operating the first partisan shipyard, starting in Kor\u010dula, later withdrawing to Vela Luka, Hvar, Lastovo, Vis, and even to Bari, Italy, repairing the boats of the partisan and allied navy. After the liberation of the area in 1944, the Kor\u010dula shipyard was reconstructed, and in 1949, it moved to a new location called Domin\u010de, where it produced 120 torpedo boats for the navy at the time of the Informbiro pressure, when the country was threatened by Soviet aggression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","event-category":[],"city":[],"state":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-26796","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nShipbuilding in Kor\u010dula is very old and certainly older than the written documents about it. As an Illyrian pirate stronghold and a Greek colony of Antiquity, Kor\u010dula was an important center. Although it cannot be proved, it is believed that the boats known under the names of liburna and kerkur(a) were invented by the Kor\u010dula boatbuilders. The Statute of the City and the Island of Kor\u010dula from 1214. It is considered to be the earliest document about shipbuilding in Kor\u010dula, where the craft was mentioned indirectly in the ordinances concerning wood-cutting and the production of tar for the needs of shipbuilding. In the 14th century, in the local documents, there were mentions of \u201ckalafats\u201d (masters who filled the fissures between boards) and \u201cmarangoni\u201d (craftsmen in wood), witnessing the existence of a shipbuilding tradition.<\/p>\n
\nThe Kor\u010dula shipbuilders petitioned the Venetian authorities, and they were allowed to construct boats up to 500 \u201cstari\u201d but only for Christian customers.
\nAt the beginning of the 16th century, this limit was raised to 2.000 \u201cstari\u201d. The Venetian authorities in the course of time showed more understanding for the shipbuilding industry of Kor\u010dula; thus, they had their own boats built and repaired there in spite of their big arsenal in Venice, and in 1623 all restrictions were lifted.
\nIn 1623, the Kor\u010dula shipbuilders founded their association under the name of the Bank of St. Joseph, which was organized like a guild. Nobody could get a job in the Kor\u010dula shipyards unless he was a member of the association. The social elements of the association consisted of the aid to the members in need, either by supporting the member or in offering help for the wedding of a daughter, or in case of death, etc. The founding of the association was a significant step forward, as from that year on all limitations in the construction of the boats were lifted, and in 1776, the Venetian authorities moved their shipyard from Hvar to Kor\u010dula.
\nVarious authors of the period describe the significance of the shipbuilding industry in Kor\u010dula. In his travel notes published in 1688, the Englishman Spon mentions the importance of Kor\u010dula for Venice, as in its shipyards Venetian ships were constructed and repaired. The author of the well-known work \u201cIsolario\u201d, Coronelli, in a chapter on Kor\u010dula, said that Kor\u010dula possessed large and rich woods offering the material for shipbuilding in which lots of its population was involved.<\/p>\n
\nOwing to the frequent oscillations in the demand for ships on the market as well as the cutting short of the privileges for the shipyard workmen of being free of the national service, the number of workmen, especially younger ones, has diminished, and owing to the lack of job security, many of them left Kor\u010dula and the country. A number of master shipbuilders from Kor\u010dula started their own shipyards in Kor\u010dula.
\nThe family of shipbuilders Foreti\u0107 opened one in Rijeka, Br\u010di\u0107, Paunovi\u0107, Vilovi\u0107, Fabris, Depolo, Ivan\u010devi\u0107, Foreti\u0107, Falkone in Instambul, Sardi, Sessa, Verzotti, Dru\u0161kovi\u0107 in Bujukdere, Smrkini\u0107, Dobro\u0161i\u0107, Fabris in Alexandria, Depolo, Geri\u010di\u0107, Foreti\u0107, Saleti\u0107, Verzotti, Vilovi\u0107, POmeni\u0107 at Ismir, Depolo, Kapor, Bernardi, in Odessa, Kapor in Marseilles, Vilovi\u0107, Pesante at Galati, Kapor in Malta, Fabris at Kercha, Krtica, Smrkini\u0107 in New York, Bongvardo, Kapor in New Orleans, Vidovi\u0107, Ivan\u010devi\u0107 at Mobile, Ivan\u010devi\u0107 in Buenos Aires, Sessa, Kalogjera, Kova\u010devi\u0107, Paunovi\u0107 in Sulina.<\/p>\n