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San Esteban (1607 shipwreck) Santísima Trinidad (1600s) HMS Seahorse (1694 fireship) State Barge of Charles II. Categories: 17th century in transport. Ships by century. 17th century in water transport. Hidden categories:
t. e. Naval artillery in the Age of Sail encompasses the period of roughly 1571–1862: when large, sail-powered wooden naval warships dominated the high seas, mounting a large variety of types and sizes of cannon as their main armament. By modern standards, these cannon were extremely inefficient, difficult to load, and short ranged.
Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached what is today the United States, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620.
A 1728 diagram illustrating a first- and a third-rate ship. The rating system of the Royal Navy and its predecessors was used by the Royal Navy between the beginning of the 17th century and the middle of the 19th century to categorise sailing warships, initially classing them according to their assigned complement of men, and later according to the number of their carriage-mounted guns.
Naval battle involving carracks and galleys. English carrack was loaned in the late 14th century, via Old French caraque, from carraca, a term for a large, square-rigged sailing vessel used in Spanish, Italian and Middle Latin. These ships were called carraca in Portuguese and Genoese, carraca in Spanish, caraque or nef in French, and kraak in ...
A ship propelled by a steam engine; includes steam frigates. Ship prefix SS for merchant vessels Tartane or tartan A single-masted ship used for fishing and coastal trading in the Mediterranean from the 17th to the late 19th century, usually rigged with a large lateen sail, and a fore-sail to the bowsprit. Trabaccolo
13 ft (4.0 m) Sail plan. 3-masted ship. Armament. 2 × 3-pounder minion stern chasers. Mayflower II is a reproduction of the 17th-century ship Mayflower, celebrated for transporting the Pilgrims to the New World in 1620. [3] The reproduction was built in Devon, England during 1955–1956, in a collaboration between Englishman Warwick Charlton ...
Pinnace (ship's boat) As a ship's boat, the pinnace is a light boat, propelled by oars or sails, carried aboard merchant and war vessels in the Age of Sail to serve as a tender. The pinnace was usually rowed but could be rigged with a sail for use in favorable winds. A pinnace would ferry passengers and mail, communicate between vessels, scout ...