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
Carrack
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A carrack is a three- or four-masted ocean-going sailing ship that was developed in the 14th to 15th centuries in Europe, most notably in Portugal and Spain. Evolving from the single-masted cog, the c
Caravel
…caravels found new trade routes, their small size made them poor cargo ships. They were eventually replaced on commercial trade routes by the much larger carrack (carraca or nao), which could carry more goods and make more money. In the decades after the Americas were colonized, caravels fell out of use as newer…
The Portuguese carrack Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai and other ships, painting by Joachim Patinir. The voyage of Infanta Beatriz, second daughter of King Manuel of Portugal, to Villefranche for her marriage to Charles III, Duke of Savoy, in 1521.
c. 1558 painting of a large carrack attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Replica of a small 15th-century or 16th-century carrack at Vila do Conde, Portugal
Naval battle involving carracks and galleys