Shipbuilding

Evolution of Ship Building to Face South Atlantic Seas

Fishing Boat Used
to Reach African
Coast in 1400

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Gil Eannes rounded the
Bulging Cape in 1434 in
one of these

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Carvelão

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"Latin" Caravel

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Nau of the
style used
by Vasco
Da Gama

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Caravel Used
Regularly in
the 1500s

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

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