Ocean Traders: From the Portugese Discoveries to the Present Day

Age of Discovery American Atlantic beam became Blackwall Blackwall frigates boom bowsprit Britain British built Cape Horn caravel cargo ships carrack carried celestial charts China clinker-built clipper coal coast Company compass crew deck developed Dutch early East East Indiamen eighteenth century England English ships fifteenth century fleet fluyts fore and aft forecastle foremast frames frigates ft long galleon HEIC HEIC ships India Indiamen iron iron-hulled keel lateen latitude launched liners London mainmast Mediterranean merchant ships merchantmen mizzen mast National Maritime Museum navigation Newcastle upon Tyne nineteenth century North oars ocean traders Pacific plates Pole ports Portugal Portuguese rigged rope rudder schooners Science Museum seamen seventeenth century ship's shipbuilding shipowners Spain Spanish Spice Islands spritsail square sails staysails steam engines steamship steering stern Taeping tankers three-masted tiller tonnage tons topgallants topmast topsail transverse vessels voyage warships West whale wind wooden yard