#carvel/cog

[ltwilliammowett]

Sometimes you just have bad luck. So the carvel Lisa von Lübeck (actually a cog but built in carvel technology) got stuck in the Außenweser (near Bremen, Northern Germany), at that time she had 45 people on board, 35 of whom were rescued by sea rescuers (DGzRS) and brought ashore, the crew of 10 remained on board and after she later broke loose again she could be brought to Bremerhaven accompanied by the sea rescuers and a ship from the Wasserstraßen und Schiffahrtsamt. Whether there was a navigational error or the stuck ship had another cause is still being investigated.

[thelaithlyworm]

I Have a New Low for Frivolous Research

I just spent the last half-hour trying to work out if the little ship in The Princess Bride was a square-rigged sloop, a square-rigged caravel, or a cog.

I think it’s a cog, because square-rigging is unusual though not impossible for a sloop, and caravels are far more likely to be lateen-rigged and have more than one mast, though am not well up enough on boats to check the details of the rudder. I kept squinting through the kidnapping scene to try and find out if the sides were clinker-built (overlapping boards) or carvel-built (flush boards).

Do you know what this is for? One. Throw-away. Sentence.

Gaaaaaaaaaah...

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But, if anyone asks, it’s probably a cog.

[audiopedia2016]

What is CARRACK? What does CARRACK mean? CARRACK meaning - CARRACK pronunciation - CARRACK definition - How to pronounce CARRACK? Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under http://ift.tt/yjiNZw license. A carrack or naus was a three- or four-masted ocean-going sailing ship and was developed in the 14th and 15th centuries in Europe. Carracks were first used for European trade from the Mediterranean to the Baltic. In its most advanced forms, it was used by the Portuguese for trade with the African coast and finally with Asia and America from the 15th century into the 17th century. With linguistic variation, these ships were called carraca or nau in Portuguese, Spanish and Genoese, caraque or nef in French, kraak in Dutch and Flemish. Originally the word carrack meant ship and was used in the Mediterranean for any ship long before the ocean-going carrack was developed in the 15th century. The word probably originally derives from the Arab word Harraqa, an unrelated type of river barge that first appeared in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the 9th century. Carracks were carvel built ocean-going ships: large enough to be stable in heavy seas, and roomy enough for a large cargo and the provisions needed for long voyages. They were usually square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast. They had a high rounded stern with large aftcastle, forecastle and bowsprit at the stem. As the predecessor of the galleon, the carrack was one of the most influential ship designs in history; while ships became more specialized in the following centuries, the basic design remained unchanged throughout this period. By the Late Middle Ages the cog, and cog-like square-rigged vessels equipped with a rudder at the stern, were widely used along the coasts of Europe, in the Baltic, and also in the Mediterranean. Given the conditions of the Mediterranean, galley type vessels were extensively used there, as were various two masted vessels, including the caravels with their lateen sails. These and similar ship types were familiar to Portuguese navigators and shipwrights. As the Portuguese gradually extended their explorations and trade ever further south along Africa's Atlantic coast during the 15th century they needed a larger and more advanced ship for their long oceanic adventures. Gradually, they developed their own models of oceanic carracks from a fusion and modification of aspects of the ship types they knew operating in both the Atlantic and Mediterranean, generalizing their use in the end of the century for inter-oceanic travel with a new, more advanced form of sail rigging that allowed much improved sailing characteristics in the heavy winds and waves of the Atlantic ocean. In addition to the average tonnage naus, some large naus (carracks) were also built in the reign of John II of Portugal, but were only widespread after the turn of the century. The Portuguese carracks were usually very large ships for their time (often over 1000 tons), and having the future large naus of the India run and of the China and Japan trade, also other new types of design.

[ltwilliammowett]

Masterlist - Ship Types, design, building, development and parts

Frigates with Oars- here

Floating citadels- here

Royal Navy Dockyards of the 17th and 18th century- here

Footropes- here

Early naval guns- here

Weapons at Sea- here

Navy Board Model- here 

Hämeenmaa- here

Ship’s decorations : the broadside of a ship- of- the- line- here

The cockpit- here

Galleasses- here

Crow’s Nest- here

Clinker and Carvel build hulls- here

Ship’s Bell- here

The development of the rudder- here

The 74- gun ship- here

The Capstan- here

Ship’s wheel- here

The True Frigate- here

The Galley- here 

The Hanseatic League and the Cog- here

Block and Half Models- here

Sprit sail and Jib- here

Different Rating of a Ship- here

What is a Hermaphrodite Brig ?- here

Anchors- here

Decoration and changing shape of the stern on ships of the line- here

The Rating System- here

Ship’s boats- here

Ship Camels- here

Fireships- here

Figureheads- here

Bomb Vessels- here

Rocket ships and the HMS Erebus (1807)- here

What is a Nef ?- here

How to build a ship after  L'Album de Colbert , 1670- here

Fluyt- here

Call of nature- the Toilett- here

Portholes- here

Whaler ships- here

The rapid development of the stern in the years of establishment of the sixth rate- here

Merchant ships- here

Gloire- the French first (semi) Ironclad- here

Steam and Screw- here

The carronade- here

The Development of the Rig of SS Great Britain- here

Sheer Hulks- here