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To keep up with trade, ship building increased as well. Italian city-states like Venice constructed ships like the galley. By the thirteenth century there were galleys that could carry up to 500 metric tons (490 long tons; 550 short tons) of cargo and was about 40 metres (130 ft) long. [18]
Roccafortis was built in Venice (some sources say at the Venetian Arsenal) in the mid 13th-century.She was laid down as a round ship, and was often outfitted for war.The exact role of the ship is disputed; some sources note the ship was used to defend Venice's Levant trade, and she has been placed [1] [2] at the Battle of Saseno in 1264 between the Venetian and Genoese navies.
13th century clothing featured long, belted tunics with various styles of surcoats or mantle in various styles. The man on the right wears a gardcorps , and the one on the left a Jewish hat . Women wore linen headdresses or wimples and veils, c. 1250
In April 2022, a 13th-century cog was found in Tallinn, Estonia during highway construction. It is believed to be better preserved than the Bremen cog and a dendrochronology test on the wood has dated the wreck to 1298. The ship is 24 meters long and nine meters wide. The boards are intact up to three meters from the bottom of the ship. [31]
A second, smaller mast was added sometime in the 13th century and the number of rowers rose from two to three rowers per bench as a standard from the late 13th to the early 14th century. [132] The galee sottili would make up the bulk the main war fleets of every major naval power in the Mediterranean, assisted by the smaller single-masted ...
At the same time, however, the then megas doux, Michael Stryphnos, was accused by Niketas Choniates of enriching himself by selling off the equipment of the imperial fleet, [141] [146] while by the early 13th century the authority of the central government had weakened to such an extent that various local potentates began seizing power in the ...
They grew from 200 tons capacity in the fifteenth century to 500. In the sixteenth century they usually had two decks, stern castles fore and aft, two to four masts with overlapping sails. Voyages to India in the sixteenth century used carracks, large merchant ships with a high edge and three masts with square sails, that reached 2,000 tons.
A 13th century ship has been found at Magor Pill on the River Severn. Originally open, ships began to have decks around the 12th century. Rudders were fitted on the stern by 1200 rather than the quarters as previously. In 1416 the king's ship "Anne" had two masts while the "Edward" was built in 1466 with three.