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Nef latina

Post by Anatol » Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:45 pm

Manuscript of medieval scholar Michael of Rhodes contains the world's first known treatise on shipbuilding. Michael copied it from existing documents, so it's certainly not the first treatise ever written. It is, however, the earliest text of its kind to survive.The treatise covers two kinds of sailing ships. His descriptions reveal fundamental features of ship design as it was practiced during the Middle Ages and contain a huge amount of information about sails and rigging.Michael describes two of these sailing ships: a lateen-rigged ship and asquare-rigged ship. Both vessels reflect elements of the evolution of the ship during what has come to be called the Nautical Revolution of the Middle Ages. A major feature of this "revolution" was the marriage of new ship technologies from the Atlantic coasts with the existing technologies of the Mediterranean. The first sailing ship Michael describes is a ‘’nave latina’’, by which he meant a ship equipped with lateen sails. Most Venetian goods were carried in this kind of single-deck vessel. Its two masts would have been relatively common in Venice, but unusual in Atlantic waters. The vessel was not different forms of grace . Graystripe , rather clumsy ship had two masts and Latin rig . Bulky ahterkastl was richly decorated with carvings. The ship had a hatch in the deck and a cutout in the board for loading products directly to tweendeck - tween . The steering gear is pretty conservative ( two steering oars ) and differs little from the merchant ships of ancient Rome. Hinged wheel appeared among the peoples of the Mediterranean much later than the northerners . The length of these vessels - sometimes called naves and Ghats - reached 30 m, width - 8m mast height - 25 m. Such vessels are often chartered by the Crusaders to transport troops and equipment. Nevertheless, this type of navigation was limited in the direction of the winds and were more vulnerable to enemy attacks, although in the case of war can be used as a support for fleet thin.
Mozambique 2013;16,0;SG? Equatorial Guinea 1975;35PTA;SG4423. Bulgaria 1975;18s;SG2440 Mongolia 1981;50m;SG1370. Kampuchea 1986;2r;SG739. Cambodia 1993;150r; SG1307. Afghanistan1997;8,0afg;SG? 2000;10 000afg;SG? Sourse: brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/michaelofrhodes/ships_sailing.html. duat.asia/story/korabli-srednevekovya-i-antichnosti. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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