naphtha shooters/throwers. The kind of ships used in the campaign is not mentioned in the History of Yuan, but the norm of Chinese junks pre-1500 was about 20 - 30 m long. Worcester estimates that the large junks of the Yuan dynasty were 36 feet in beam and over 100 feet long. By using the ratio between the number of ships and total soldiers, each ship may have carried a maximum capacity of 30 or 31 men. David Bade estimated a capacity of 20 to 50 men per ship.

The History of Yuan