Old Sailing Ships

Introduction

Some famous sailing ships and the captains

Ships

Mediaval. See the Wikipedia page for more information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_ships Kog

• 10th century, and was widely used from around the 12th century on.
• a single mast and a single square sail

Knarr

• viking ship
• was a cargo ship

Longship

• Scandinavian warship
• graceful, long, narrow, and light, with a shallow-draft
• Later versions had a rectangular sail on a single mast

Hulk

• mostly for transports
• a river or canal boat
• a single mast at the amidship that was commonly depicted with a square sail

Carrack

• a three- or four-masted ocean-going

Galley

• for warfare, trade, and piracy mostly in the seas surrounding Europe.
• a long, slender hull, shallow draft
• Most types of galleys also had sails that could be used in favourable winds, but they relied primarily on oars to move independently of winds and currents.

Balinger

• lack of a forecastle, and by carrying either a square sail, or a sail extended on a sprit on a single mast.

Birlinn

Captains or leaders

Prince Henry the Navigator

4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460.

Vasco da Gama

1460s – 24 December 1524.

Ship: São Gabriel was a carrack (a three- or four-masted)