Caravel
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The caravel was a small sailing ship that developed from the fishing craft of Galicia, Portugal, and Atlantic Andalusia. It could be rigged either entirely with lateen sails or with a combination of l
Replica of the Pinta in Palos de la Frontera, one of the Spanish ships of Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the West Indies, and one of the first two caravels to reach the New World in 1492.
Model of a Portuguese caravel, found in the Musée national de la Marine
What is believed to be the most accurate depiction of a lateen caravel, featured in the 16th century Retábulo de Santa Auta, now at the National Museum of Ancient Art, in Lisbon
A replica of the caravel Boa Esperança in the city of Lagos, Portugal
Prince Henry the Navigator
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Prince Henry the Navigator, was a Portuguese prince, a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and often credited as one of the main initiators of the Age of Discovery. Henry was the
Caravel
…and by the early fifteenth century, the updated decked versions were widely used across the Iberian Peninsula. In the mid-to-late fifteenth century, Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal needed better ships to explore the Atlantic ocean and the African coast. At Sagres, Henry brought together a group of experts in mapmaking…
Henry the Navigator depicted on the Saint Vincent Panels, by Nuno Gonçalves, c. 1470
The Casa do Infante, in Porto, is traditionally considered Prince Henry's birthplace.
Prince Henry at the 1415 Conquest of Ceuta, considered the beginning of the Portuguese Empire.
Ceuta in 1572.