Shipbuilding

Evolution of Ships Built to Face South Atlantic Seas

Shipbuilding

Fishing Boat Used
to Reach African
Coast in 1400

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About Fishing Boats

Gil Eannes rounded the
Bulging Cape in 1434 in
one of these

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Modified Fishing Boats

Carvelão

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Carvelã:os

"Latin" Caravel

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Latin Caravels

Caravel Used
Regularly in
the 1500s

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about Caravels

Nau of the
style used
by Vasco
Da Gama

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How Caravels and Naus Were Built

Models on display at National Maritime Museum, Lisbon, Photographs by author

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