The Sovereign of the Seas was not only the largest warship of its time in its launch, it was also the first ship with more than 100 guns and the technical renewal of stepless continuous decks, which should be of importance for later ships.
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The Prince Royal was an English battery ship, which was by several conversion to one of the largest warships of his time under the English flag and served in the Anglo-Dutch naval warfare as a flagship.
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The ship type liner developed in the mid to late 16th century by technical innovations in shipbuilding and armament. At the beginning of the 16th century, with the invention of the gun port, it became possible to use openings deeper in the hull for guns, which were only opened to fire the cannons and otherwise...
With the Henry Grâce à Dieu, although a ship of the Karacke was still built, but the development of the gun port, it was the engineers now possible to install gun batteries deeper in the hull, which on the one hand meant that the lower guns were larger because they On the other hand, the...
The Golden Hinde was a ship of the type galleon and was the flagship with the Sir Francis Drake as the first human circumnavigated the world.
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The Batavia was a galleon that was in the service of the Dutch East India Company and sank on their first voyage off the coast of Australia.
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The Vasa was a Swedish galleon, which in its day counted as one of the largest and most heavily armed warships.
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The order to build the Vasa was granted in the course of the Thirty Years' War by the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf of Sweden in 1625. The reason for this...
