Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration Roger C. Smith 1993 Maritime Technology

Description: Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration in the Age of ColumbusSmith, Roger C. Published by Oxford University Press, 1993 ISBN 10: 0195073576 / ISBN 13: 9780195073577In this book, Smith has assembled a portrait of the small vessels invented and refined in the shipyards of Spain and Portugal half a millennium ago. He focuses on the advances in maritime technology that made the European conquest of the New World possible. Shipwrights worked by trial and error to make ships that would travel faster and farther, carrying larger and larger cargoes. Pilots developed new methods of celestial navigation and learned the patterns of wind and sea currents. Long voyages taxed the physical and emotional well-being of the crew, requiring new methods of supply and sustenance. In addition to covering these developments, Smith's book shows how ships were built, outfitted, and manned, illustrating what life at sea was like in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Focusing on the advances in maritime technology that made European expansion possible, this book will shed light on a neglected aspect of the European conquest of the New World. Common terms and phrasesanchor arms arrobas artillery Atlantic ballast Basque beam bilge block boat bowsprit braces caravels cargo carried Casa de Contratación Cattewater Wreck clew coast Columbus construction deck discovery early Escalante de Mendoza española European exploration fastened Fernández de Navarrete fifteenth fleet foremast frames futtocks García de Palacio guns Highborn Cay Wreck holes hull hundredweight Iberian India Indies Instrucción náutica inventory iron Juan keel keelson lateen length Lisbon mainmast mainsail mariners maritime Martínez-Hidalgo mast Mataró medieval Mediterranean merchant meters mizzen mizzenmast Molasses Reef naos Nautical Archaeology naval navigation navios Niña Ocean ordnance piece planking ports Portugal Portuguese Portuguese Empire pump Red Bay rigging rope royal rudder running rigging sail sailors Santa María Seville ship ship's shipbuilding Shipwreck shipwrights shipyard shrouds sixteenth century Spain Spanish spritsail stern sterncastle sternpost strake swivel swivel guns tackle tonnage topsail trade trinquete vessels voyages wooden wrought-iron yard

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