Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai was a higher-castled Portuguese carrack with 140 guns, launched down in 1520. Built in Kochi, India around 1512 it had two square rig masts and is depicted on a painting
The Portuguese carrack Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai and other Portuguese ships in a painting by Joachim Patinir.
Portuguese India Armadas
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The Portuguese Indian Armadas were the fleets of ships funded by the Crown of Portugal, and dispatched on an annual basis from Portugal to India. The principal destination was Goa, and previously Coch
Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai
…Atlantic stretch between the Cape of Good Hope and Continental Portugal. The report of French seizure — which, if true, would be only the second time a Portuguese India ship was captured by enemy action (the first was in 1509) — was given by the 16th-century chronicler Gaspar Correia (who is not always reliable, and…
A brief view of the Indian city of Vasco da Gama
Mozambique Island, with Fort São Sebastião in background
Principal cities of the Swahili Coast of East Africa, c. 1500.