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Iberian ship development, 1400–1600; J. Jesus of Lübeck; La Juliana (1570 ship) L. ... Speedwell (1577 ship) English ship Squirrel (1570s) English ship Swiftsure ...
Pages in category "1600s ships" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Den Røde Løve (Danish ship)
The standard fluyt design minimized or completely eliminated its armaments to maximize available cargo space, and used block and tackle extensively to facilitate ship operations. Another advantage of its pear-shape (when viewed from the fore or aft) was a shallow draft which allowed the vessel to bring cargo in and out of ports and up and down ...
Galleon: A heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 16th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish. They were the fastest ships built during the 16th century. Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships first used as armed cargo carriers. The full body of the fleet took two days to leave port.
Any ship carrying mail for the British Royal Mail, allocated ship prefix RMS while doing so. Typically a fast liner carrying passengers. Schooner A fore and aft-rigged vessel with two or more masts of which the foremast is shorter than the main Settee Single-decked, single or double-masted Mediterranean cargo vessel carrying a settee sail Shallop
The ship broke up and 18,000 fish were lost, to the value of £200 "... by his (the pilot) craft, fault, ignorance, rashness and negligence caused the ship to strike the sands and rocks of the sea". [11] 17 April — Unnamed ship (Habsburg Netherlands): The unknown sloop-of-war may have been one of the ships sunk during the Battle of Flushing. [76]
Largest ship afloat when launched [1] 13 June 1514 England: Woolwich Dockyard: Kent: Henry Grace à Dieu: Carrack: Largest ship afloat when launched 1518 Kingdom of France: Royal Dockyard Le Havre: La Dauphine: Carrack: Part of Giovanni da Verrazzano's first voyage to the New World 1520 Free City of Lübeck: Lübeck: Jesus of Lübeck: Carrack ...
The limited capacity for cargo and crew were their main drawbacks, but this did not hinder their success. Limited crew and cargo space was acceptable, initially, because as exploratory ships, their "cargo" was what was in the explorer's discoveries about a new territory, which only took up the space of one person. [14]