Evolution of Ship Building to Face South Atlantic Seas

Fishing Boat Used to Reach African Coast in 1400		Gil Eannes rounded the Bulging Cape in 1434 in one of these

Carvelão		"Latin" Caravel

Caravel Used Regularly in the 1500s		Nau of the style used by Vasco Da Gama

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

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