Pages in category "17th-century ships" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

A galiote was a horse-drawn barge pulled along canals or rivers banks, which were popular in France from the mid-17th century through the 19th century. A galiote, or scute, also was a type of flat-bottomed boat with a simple sail that traveled French rivers transporting wine in the Anjou region as far as Les Ponts-de-Cé. [4]

17th and 18th century Christian shipping in the Mediterranean was threatened by the Barbary corsairs, who were Muslim pirates based in Northern Africa. The vessel of choice for these pirates in the early days was the galley, whose oars allowed them …

Wherry: A light and fast 17th century ship's boat. Windjammer: A three- to five-masted square-rigged merchant vessel built between 1870 and 1890. They were of all-iron hull construction and rather large, often displacing several thousand tons.

Having considered the major types of vessels and boats employed in early seventeenth-century Massachusetts—the ship, bark, pinnace, ketch, and shallop—we can now move on and see how they changed. For the first evidence of change, let us consider Figure 8 taken from what is said to be the first map ever cut in America.

Dutch fluyts were built and used in the 16th and 17th centuries as a contract-for-hire vessel. England had not yet established its own large-scale shipbuilding industry and the Dutch dominated the market. [8] During the 17th century, English companies leased ships like the Swan to carry colonists to America. [citation needed]

2025年3月8日 · In the 16th century the sailing ship in general service was the Dutch fluyt, which made Holland the great maritime power of the 17th century. A long, relatively narrow ship designed to carry as much cargo as possible, the fluyt featured three masts and a large hold beneath a single deck.

2010年4月8日 · A classic three-masted, square-rigged merchant ship of the 17th century, invented by the Dutch to be economical in operation, carrying the largest cargo and smallest crew possible. It had a wide, balloon-like hull rounding at the …

2019年4月21日 · Have you ever wondered how people built wooden sailing ships in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? The process seems, on the face of it, a pretty straightforward procedure.

During the seventeenth century, English men and women – surrounded by water and near navigable rivers and estuaries – were familiar with three kinds of water vessels: small boats for short-distance travel (rowed or with one mast), larger vessels for inland and medium-distance trade (often masted), and large oceangoing ships (large and ...