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Key Points
- The Caravel was a light and fast sailing ship that was popularised by the Spanish and Portuguese for extended journeys.
- The Caravel was ostensibly created by the Portuguese for the purpose of discovering Africa's coast.
- The Caravel has ability to sail windward.
- It might move very quickly as well.
- The Nina and the Pinta, two of the three ships that Christopher Columbus travelled aboard during his famous expedition in 1492, were caravels.
Additional Information
- Japanese Expedition Ship
- Kainan Maru was such first non- European expedition ship used for Antarctic Voyages.
- It has been mostly forgotten in polar history, occurring at the same time as two significant Antarctic expeditions, one each headed by Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott.
- Greeks Ships
- The bireme was a leading war ships for Greeks.
- A trireme was another ancient Greek Ships.
- Dutch Ships
- The Dutch began manufacturing the "cog," a particular kind of ship, in the twelfth and thirteenth century.
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