Chialoup

A chialoup (or chaloup) was a type of sloop used in the East Indies, a combination of western (Dutch) and Nusantaran (Indonesian) technologies and techniques.

Chialoups were used by the Dutch East India Company and private merchant-sailors of western and Nusantaran origin.

Depending on the size of the boat, crews run 20 to 40 people, with a typical load capacity of 72 to 144 metric tons.

[2] In the syahbandar's (harbourmaster) record of Malacca a chialoup is listed carrying up to 200 tons of cargo and a crew of 75 people.

[4] In the era after 1820, chialoups gradually disappeared from the "List of Ships and Sea Vehicles from the East Indies", a periodical published by the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies, and the term chialoup appeared more rarely in newspapers, replaced with kotter, a Dutch word for a type of sloop.