| Date |
Event |
Image |
Comment |
Source
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| 50,000 BC
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Colonization of Australia
|
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Archaeological finds
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Bellwood 1979, 38-43.
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| 11,000 BC
|
Sailing in the Mediterranean
|
|
Obsidian from Melos in SE Peloponnese Franchthi Cave
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Cherry 1990, 193.
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| 3500 c. BC
|
First depiction of a sail (square)
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[[File:First Depiction of Sail Casson14-11.jpg]|thumb|]
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Egypt - Pot from the Gerzean period. Probably not Egyptian, as the ship has high prow and stern, looking more like Mesopotamian
|
Bass 1972, 12-13
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| 3000 c. BC
|
Stone buildings and plank boats
|
|
Egypt
|
Casson 1994, 15
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| 2500 c. BC
|
Rowing and tiller bar
|
|
Egypt
|
Casson 1994, 19
|
| 2450 c. BC
|
Seagoing ships with hogging trusses and bipod masts
|
[[File:2450BC_Casson22-17.jpg]|thumb|]
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Egypt - Relief in Sahure pyramid.
|
Casson 1994, 22
|
| 2000 c. BC
|
Low aspect sail
|
|
Egypt
|
Casson 1994, 36
|
| 1900 c. BC
|
Pole mast stepped amidships
|
[[File:1900BC_Casson20-16.jpg]|thumb|]
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Egypt
|
Casson 1994, 20
|
| 1500 c. BC
|
Seagoing ships with pole masts
|
[[File:1500BC_Casson24-18.jpg]|thumb|]
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Egypt - Hatshepsut tomb relief
|
Casson 1994, 24
|
| 1400 c. BC
|
Round ships. Sails still have booms.
|
[[File:1400BC_Casson37-30.jpg]|thumb|]
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Egypt - Painting in tomb in Thebes
|
Casson 1994, 37
|
| 1190 c. BC
|
Loose-footed square sail
|
|
Relief on the temple of Ramses III.
|
Casson 1994, 24
|
| 510 c. BC
|
Brails
|
[[File:510BC_Casson45-36.jpg]|thumb|]
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Athenian cup in the British Museum
|
Casson 1994, 44-46
|
| 480 c. BC
|
Artemon mast
|
480BC_Casson46-38.jpg
|
Etruscan tomb in Tarquinia
|
Casson 1994, 44-46
|
| 400's BC
|
Large merchantmen: ten-thousenders
|
|
Greece
|
Casson 1994, 121
|
| 230 c. BC
|
Syracuse: three masts
|
|
Description by Atheneus
|
Casson 1994, 122
|
|
|
Sails (leather): ships of the Veneti
|
|
|
|
| 100's
|
Lateen rig
|
[[File:100s_lateen2ndCasson118.jpg]|thumb|]
|
Tombstone found in the Piraeus, now in Athens, dated to the 2nd century.
|
Casson 1994, 118
|
| 200 c.
|
Sprit rig
|
[[File:100s_lateen2ndCasson118.jpg]|thumb|]
|
Tombstone, Istanbul
|
Casson 1994, 116
|
| 200 c.
|
Leather sail?
|
[[File:200AD_Leather_Casson135-100.jpg]|thumb|]
|
Relief in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier, Germany. Battens suggest a leather sail.
|
Casson 1994, 135
|
| 400 c.
|
Yassiada II Shipwreck
|
[[File:400AD_ya4-398.jpg]|thumb|]
|
|
|
| 500 c.
|
Tantura A Shipwreck
|
[[File:500AD_TanturaA-K338.jpg]|thumb|]
|
|
|
| 510 c.
|
Square sail
|
[[File:510AD_504-526SantApollinareNuovo.jpg ]|thumb|]
|
Last representation of a square sail in the Mediterranean. Dated to 504-526. Church of Sant Apollinare Nuovo. Ravena.
|
Casson 1994
|
| 600-625
|
St. Gervais II Shipwreck
|
|
|
|
| 625 c
|
Yassiada I
|
|
|
|
| sec IX
|
Two-masted lateener
|
|
Representation in Greek manuscript
|
Carbonell Relat s/d, 28
|
| 800 c.
|
Tantura F Shipwreck
|
|
|
|
| 850 c.
|
Sails (square) in Viking ships: Gokstad Ship
|
|
|
Casson 1994, 147
|
| 850 c.
|
Square sails in the Mediterranean?
|
[[File:850AD_Carolingianshipc850.jpg ]|thumb|]
|
Representations of a square sails in Carolingian manuscripts.
|
Haywood 1999, 180 and Cassagnes-Brouquet 2003, 28-29.(1)
|
| 874 c.
|
Bozburun Shipwreck
|
|
|
|
| 900 c.
|
Agay A Shipwreck
|
|
|
|
| 900 c.
|
Agay B Shipwreck
|
|
|
|
| 900 c.
|
Bateguier Shipwreck
|
|
|
|
| 115...
|
Central rudder: Kolerup cog
|
|
|
|
| 1025 c.
|
Serçe Limani Shipwreck
|
|
|
|
| 1150-1200
|
Central rudder: iconography
|
[[File:1150AD_Casson153-114.jpg]|thumb|]
|
Relief Winchester Cathedral
|
Casson 1994, 153
|
|
|
|
[[File:Squaresail01-bellabarba.jpg]|thumb|]
|
Earliest representation of a square sail in the Mediterranean after the 5th century. Church in Pec.
|
Bellabarba
|
|
|
First mention of a caravel - Genoa
|
|
|
Ciciliot 2005
|
|
|
Carracks with two masts
|
|
Alfonso X, Las siete partidas
|
Carbonell Relat s/d, 28
|
|
|
FIRST COCCHE iconography?
|
|
|
|
| 1200's
|
three-masted lateener
|
|
"St. Mark approaching Egypt", mosaic, Basilica of St. Mark, Venice.
|
Casson 1964, 78
|
| 1226
|
Mention of a caravel in Portugal
|
|
Foral de Gaia?
|
Elb 1986, 546
|
| 1438
|
Caravels built for the king of Burgundy
|
|
|
Paviot 1989, 309
|
| 1300 c.
|
Contarina I Ship
|
|
|
|
| 1310-1350
|
Painting by Paolo Veneziano w/ skeleton first
|
[[File:1310AD_Casson31-23.jpg]|thumb|]
|
|
Bash 1972, fig. 12
|
| 1300-1325
|
Culip VI Shipwreck
|
[[File:Culip_vi.jpg]|thumb|]
|
|
|
| 1336-1338
|
Quadra-latina
|
[[File:1336quadralatina-bellabarba01.jpg]|thumb|]
|
Painting "dal Buon Governo" by Ambrosio Lorenzetti, in the Pinacoteca di Siena.
|
Bellabarba 1999, 85
|
| c. 1350
|
The word carrack appears in the North, referring to the cocche.
|
|
|
Friel 1995, 159
|
| 1353
|
Catalonian contract mentioning a quadra-latina
|
|
|
Friel 1995, 158
|
| 1367
|
Iconography of a quadra-latina
|
|
|
Friel 1995, 158
|
| 1300-1350
|
Bonnets
|
|
|
Friel 1995, 159
|
| 1350 c.
|
Les Sorres X shipwreck
|
|
|
|
| 1400
|
Flanders: coca with three rudders (1 central and 2 lateral ones)
|
|
|
Carbonell Relat s/d, 29
|
| 1400 c.
|
Logonovo Ship
|
|
|
|
| 1409
|
Foremast in Catalonian drawing: first representation of a three-masted, ship-rigged ship
|
[[File:1409_-_catalonian_3-masted.jpg]|thumb|]
|
|
Mott 1997, 146
|
| 1410
|
First quadra-latina in England: a Genoese carrack captured by pirates, Sancta Maria & Sancta Brigida
|
|
|
Friel 1995, 159
|
| 1416
|
Balinger Anne, built w/ two masts in England
|
|
|
Friel 1995, 159
|
| 1416-1418
|
Grace Dieu built (w/ 3 masts?)
|
|
|
Friel 1995, 159
|
|
|
Carvel in England
|
|
|
|
| 1425
|
Northern ship with two masts
|
|
Salterio? Of Henry V of England
|
|
| 1425 c.
|
Portuguese three-masted ship
|
[[File:1425c-3masts-landstrom.jpg]|thumb|]
|
Deep plate, possibly made in Spain. Victoria and Albert Museum.
|
Landstrom
|
| 1435
|
Foremast in N. Europe
|
|
|
Friel 1995, 160
|
| 1441
|
Flanders: two Llenys with three rudders (1 central and 2 lateral ones)
|
|
|
Carbonell Relat s/d, 29
|
| 1450
|
Flanders: Caravel with three rudders (1 central and 2 lateral ones)
|
|
|
Carbonell Relat s/d, 29
|
| 1453
|
Flanders: Caravel with three rudders (1 central and 2 lateral ones)
|
|
|
Carbonell Relat s/d, 29
|
| 1459
|
Flanders: Caravel with three rudders (1 central and 2 lateral ones)
|
|
|
Carbonell Relat s/d, 29
|
| 1463
|
Flanders: one Barca with three rudders (1 central and 2 lateral ones)
|
|
|
Carbonell Relat s/d, 29
|
| 1465
|
Flanders: Lleny with three rudders (1 central and 2 lateral ones)
|
|
|
Carbonell Relat s/d, 29
|
| 1465 c.
|
Main Topmast
|
|
Italian engraving dated to 1470-1480.
|
Friel 1995, 160
|
| 1465 c.
|
Spritsail yard
|
|
|
Friel 1995, 160
|
| 1470 's, late
|
Bonaventure mast and outrigger
|
|
|
Friel 1995, 160
|
| 1475 c.
|
Stern panel in painting in Catalonia
|
|
Church of San Pedro de Zumaia
|
Casado Soto 1995, 40
|
| 1492
|
Columbus arrives in America
|
|
|
|
| 1495 c.
|
Foretopmast - Regent
|
|
|
Friel 1995, 170
|
| 1495 c
|
Main topgallant - Regent
|
|
|
Friel 1995, 170
|
| 1498
|
Vasco da Gama arrives in India
|
|
|
|
| 1500 c.
|
Gun ports
|
|
|
Bass 1972,
|
| 1510
|
Mary Rose built
|
|
|
Friel 1995, 170
|
| 1514 c.
|
Mizzen topmast
|
|
Henry Grace a Dieu
|
Friel 1995, 170
|
| 1514 c.
|
Mizzen topgallant
|
|
Henry Grace a Dieu
|
Friel 1995, 170
|
| 1514 c.
|
Bonaventure topmast
|
|
Henry Grace a Dieu
|
Friel 1995, 170
|
| 1550 c.
|
Contarina I ship
|
|
|
|
| 1600 c.
|
Mast on bowsprit
|
|
|
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