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Sailing Ship development in Britain

 

 

Ships from the days of sail

13th Century English Warship

Medieval Ship

Hulk or Holk

Buss

       

15th Century Frigate

15th Century Merchant  Ship

Caravel

Carrack

       

Late 15th Century Ship

Hoy or Cromster

Early 16th Century Ship

Late 16th Century Ship

       

Flute or Fluyt

Galleon

17th Century Galley

17th Century Capital Ship

       

Sixty-gun Ship of 1690

Bilander

Ketch

Snow

       

Brigantine

East Indiaman of 1750

Corvette

18th Century 74-gun ship

       

Lugger

1820 Capital Ship

1820 Frigate

1850 Clipper

       

Topsail Schooner

Barquentine

Packet Ship

5-masted Bark or Barque

 

 

Selected books on Sailing Ships

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