At Sea in the Middle Ages - Shipping Wonders of the World We can visualize these first northern ocean ships coming over the Atlantic in the long swell, their sails of white canvas striped with red, blue, green and yellow, but sometimes all purple, with gilded sterns, a marvellous sight when sailing in squadrons
Life at Sea in the Middle Ages - Medieval History In the early Middle Ages, the best ships in northern waters were Viking ships Their iconic longboats terrorised the seas but, of course, the Vikings, also engaged in extensive sea trade Longboats were fine for carrying raiders, but when it came to transporting goods, they weren’t ideal
Medieval Ships - Naval Encyclopedia Medieval ships, from the north (Scandinavian naval construction) to the Mediterranean, Northern and Southern Europe and the Byzantines, Arabs and Indians
Medieval Ships: A Comprehensive List of Types and Classes Caravels were typically rigged with three masts, square-rigged on the first two masts and lateen-rigged on the third “The caravel, a small and maneuverable ship with triangular sails, played a crucial role in the Age of Discovery in the late Middle Ages ”
Medieval maritime personnel and ships - The National Archives Use this guide to find records relating to English maritime personnel, ships (primarily those in service to the Crown for war) and naval administration from the late 12th to the early 16th
Ships and navigation during the Middle Ages - TemplarsNow Ships and navigation during the Middle Ages The medieval period brought on the maritime scene the emergence of new construction and navigation techniques coming mainly from the North, but also from the East (Arabs, and indirectly Chinese)
Ships in medieval Europe - Quatr. us Study Guides During the early Middle Ages, sailing ships on the Mediterranean sea continued to use the triangular sail developed during the Roman Empire But by 1000 AD, Italian merchants from Venice and Genoa and Pisa were sailing in ships with three masts, each with a triangular, or lateen, sail
Medieval Ships and Seafaring | The Oxford Handbook of Maritime . . . Seafaring in northern waters and the Western Approaches developed in a different way from that in the virtually landlocked Mediterranean and Black Seas This article describes seafaring over different regions during the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries Most seafarers during the fourteenth century were involved in commercial trade