a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman
A large three- or four-masted European sailing ship, used from the 15th to 17th centuries for carrying large cargoes. (See also caravel)
A type of sailing ship common in the 15th and 16th centuries. Columbus' flagship Santa Maria may have been a carrack.
The largest ship of the era. Usually Portuguese and usually armed. Used for overseas transport of valuable goods.
A carrack or nao was a three- or four-masted sailing ship developed in the Mediterranean in the 15th century. It had a high rounded stern with an aftcastle and a forecastle and bowsprit at the stem. It was square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.