Trimaran Marine Unit. Littoral combat ships built by General Dynamics at Bath Iron Works are of a trimaran design. USS "Independence" (LCS-2) is the first of these ships. Littoral combat ships built by Lockheed are of a monohull design. First launched on 31 August 2012 at Bali Strait, 63M Carbon Fibre Composite Trimaran Fast Missile Boat (Indonesian: Kapal Cepat Rudal [KCR]) named KRI Klewang (625) – a traditional Indonesian single edge sword, was the first stealth trimaran of the Indonesian Navy built by North Sea Boats at Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia. This ship combined a number of existing advance technologies into
Junk rig degrees from vertical, which can look odd to the unitiated. The forward rake of the sail encourages the sail to swing out, which makes the use of a preventer unnecessary. Another way to say this is that the sail is stable when swung out and doesn't return to the middle of the ship when the wind drops. Other benefits of the junk rig over the Bermuda rig include: Other shortcomings of the junk rig compared to the Bermuda rig include: There were two types of traditional ships with Junk Rig in the Malay Archipelago with local hulls instead of the