caravels
- Resource class
- Concept
- preferred label
- caravels
- alternative label
- caravella
- definition
- These are small to medium-sized vessels, with plain head and square stern, originally developed as lateen-rigged coastal fishing vessels in Medieval Portugal, but eventually used as exploratory vessels in Iberian voyages to the New World in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; vessels of exploration were often square-rigged for more efficient ocean-going travel.
- is in scheme
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Transportation Vehicles
- has broader
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sailing ship
- has exact match
- caravels (squaresterned watercraft)