Flying Wolfbat

The Flying Wolfbat was a small ship last owned by the pirate leader Jiang, having been used by her family for generations. She and her crew traveled through the Earth Kingdom with this vessel during the Hundred Year War, attacking other watercraft until the Fire Nation invaded their country, when they employed to fight the Fire Army.
The Flying Wolfbat was destroyed by a Fire Nation boat in a mission to deliver medicine to an Earth Kingdom village.
== History ==
The Flying Wolfbat was used for piracy by many members of Jiang's family and she spent her childhood aboard it, sailing on the rivers of the southern Earth Kingdom. Later in her life, Jiang would also raid other ships with this vessel. In 99 AG, she used the ship to travel to Hegemon's Folly at the Mo Ce Sea's coast. As the pirate leader conducted a mission further inland, the Flying Wolfbat and her crew waited at the shore.
When the Fire Nation occupied Jiang's traditional area of operations, the Flying Wolfbat was the last watercraft that had not been captured by the enemy soldiers. Vouching to defend the locals above all else, Jiang and her crew started sailing the Flying Wolfbat in a battle against the Fire Nation troops, as well as delivering stolen medicine and other supplies to Earth Kingdom settlements in need.
In spring 100 AG, after recruiting Katara to help them fight against Fire Army forces, Jiang and the others planned to smuggle medicine to a village aboard the ship, but were stopped by an officer who recognized it as the craft they unsuccessfully tried to capture earlier that same year.
Eventually managing to leave the docks, Katara and the pirates sailed away, but were soon cut off by a Fire Nation ship whose crew launched a burning boulder projectile from a catapult at the Flying Wolfbat, subsequently destroying the ship.
== Design ==
Despite being a small ship, the Flying Wolfbat had more than enough room for eight people and several crates of cargo. It was a wooden craft with a raised rectangular stern where a small crew and storage area was built into the hull. The bow, being shaped similarly to the stern, was relatively shorter in width. The port and starboard sides ended with sharp, triangular pieces of wood at the bow, above a red, white, and black painted design depicting a mouth with sharp teeth whiskers.
It featured three masts with wide, white sails, the ones at the bow and in the middle taller than the one at the stern. These were guided by a rod extending from a square-shaped block of wood at the bow of the ship, requiring only one crew member to sail it.
== References ==
== See also ==
* Jiang
* Transportation in the World of Avatar
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