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95/38 Cogs, Caravels and Galleons: The Sailing Ship 1000-1650 Edited by Robert Gardiner Conway Maritime Press, London, 1994, 188 pp., ISBN 0-851 77-560-8, L28, Conway's History of the Ship Series
How did naval architecture proceed from the Viking longboat and its contemporaries to the classic sailing ships of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? The achievement of this volume is that the line of development is now clearly drawn between the two, or at least as clearly as is ever likely to be possible. It takes as its starting point ancient European traditions of shipbuilding from north (the Baltic and North Sea regions) and south (the Mediterranean); there were, naturally enough,...