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Vanguard of empire : ships of exploration in the age of Columbus

Title
  1. Vanguard of empire : ships of exploration in the age of Columbus / Roger C. Smith.
Published by
  1. New York : Oxford University Press, ©1993.
Author
  1. Smith, Roger C. (Roger Craig)

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Description
  1. xii, 316 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Summary
  1. This book presents a portrait of the small vessels invented and refined in the shipyards of Spain and Portugal half a millennium ago. The author focuses on the advances in maritime technology that made the European conquest of the New World possible. Shipwrights worked by trial and error to make ships that would travel faster and farther, carrying larger and larger cargoes. Pilots developed new methods of celestial navigation and learned the patterns of wind and sea currents. Long voyages taxed the physical and emotional well-being of the crew, requiring new methods of supply and sustenance. The author also explains how ships were built, outfitted, and manned, illustrating what life at sea was like in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Subject
  1. Columbus, Christopher
  2. Geschichte 1450-1550
  3. Ships > Portugal > History
  4. Ships > Spain > History
  5. Discoveries in geography > History
  6. Discoveries in geography
  7. Ships
  8. Schiffbau
  9. Segelschiff
  10. Discoveries in geography > History
  11. Ships > Portugal > History
  12. Ships > Spain > History
  13. Navires à voiles > Portugal > 16e siècle
  14. Navires à voiles > Espagne > 16e siècle
  15. Construction navale > Espagne > Histoire > 16e siècle
  16. Construction navale > Portugal > Histoire > 16e siècle
  17. Bateaux > Espagne > Histoire
  18. Bateaux > Portugal > Histoire
  19. Découvertes géographiques > Histoire
  20. Portugal
  21. Spain
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. 1 The Iberian Maritime States (starting p. 3) -- 2 Ships of Exploration and Discovery (starting p. 30) -- 3 Budding the Ship (starting p. 50) -- 4 Rigging the Ship (starting p. 94) -- 5 Outfitting the Ship (starting p. 117) -- 6 Manning and Provisioning the Ship (starting p. 134) -- 7 Arming the Ship (starting p. 148) -- 8 Literature Review (starting p. 171) -- 9 Conclusion (starting p. 206) -- Appendix A: Nautical Terms (starting p. 215) -- Appendix B: Spanish Nautical Terms (starting p. 225) -- Appendix C: Portuguese Nautical Terms (starting p. 237) -- Appendix D: Inventories of Nina and Santa Cruz (starting p. 239) / Denise C. Lakey -- Notes (starting p. 257) -- Bibliography (starting p. 281) -- Index of Persons and Places (starting p. 292) -- General Index (starting p. 301)
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-291) and indexes.