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  2. Caravel - Wikipedia

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    The caravel (Portuguese: caravela, IPA: [kɐɾɐˈvɛlɐ]) is a small sailing ship that may be rigged with just lateen sails, or with a combination of lateen and square sails. It was known for its agility and speed and its capacity for sailing windward ( beating ).

  3. Square-rigged caravel - Wikipedia

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    Square-rigged caravel or caravela de armada, of João Serrão (Livro das Armadas) in the 4th Portuguese India Armada (Gama, 1502). The square-rigged caravel (Portuguese: caravela redonda), was a sailing ship created by the Portuguese in the second half of the fifteenth century.

  4. Galleon - Wikipedia

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    A Spanish galleon (left) firing its cannons at a Dutch warship (right). Cornelis Verbeeck, c. 1618–1620 A Spanish galleon Carracks, galleon (center/right), square rigged caravel (below), galley and fusta (galliot) depicted by D. João de Castro on the "Suez Expedition" (part of the Portuguese Armada of 72 ships sent against the Ottoman fleet anchor in Suez, Egypt, in response to its entry in ...

  5. Carvel (boat building) - Wikipedia

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    From Middle English carvel, carvelle, carvile, kervel (“small ship; caravel”); from Old French caruelle, carvelle, kirvelle. [3] The term was used in English when caravels became popular in Northern European waters from c. 1440 onwards, and the method of hull construction took the name of the first vessel type made in that way in English and European shipyards.

  6. List of ship types - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of historical ship types, which includes any classification of ship that has ever been used, excluding smaller vessels considered to be boats. The classifications are not all mutually exclusive; a vessel may be both a full-rigged ship by description, and a collier or frigate by function. A two-masted schooner Aircraft Carrier

  7. Caravel (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    The caravel is a type of sailing ship. Caravel may also refer to: Caravel (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse; SV Independiente Caravel or simply Caravel, an Aruban football club; Caravel, a starship transporting colonists in the video game Outriders

  8. A new cruise ship is in the works. What that means for ... - AOL

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    Doral-based Carnival Corp. has ordered a new Excel-class ship, the 10th in that class in the company’s global fleet, the company said on Tuesday. Carnival signed an agreement with German ...

  9. Pinta (ship) - Wikipedia

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    The owner of the ship allowed Martín Alonso Pinzón to take over the ship so he could keep an eye on it. La Pinta was a caravel-type vessel. By tradition Spanish ships were named after saints and usually given nicknames. Thus, La Pinta, like La Niña, was not the ship's actual name; La Niña's actual name was the Santa Clara.