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Sail back in time to the 16th century and become a part of the
ship's crew when you step aboard the Sea Lion, A replica
of a real 16th century merchant trading vessel.
And for the ultimate weirdness I was
Master Navigator RedDog of
the Sea Lion during it's stay here in Buffalo. Please no comments about the codpiece
and rediculious Elizabethian ruff...;-Þ
Red Bay Historic Site
In the late 1500s ships sailed each year from the Basque
Provinces of France and Spain to hunt right and bowhead
whales in the Strait of Belle Isle. The primary port for
this 16th century enterprise was the sheltered harbour of
Red Bay.
History of Spain --
Primary Documents
Links to web documents on history, shipping, and exploration / exploitation
of the Empire of Spain.
Mark Rosenstein's Sailing Page
Welcome to my sailing page of internet sailing resources. Please
browse though the material or use the table of contents. If you discover
items on the net I've missed, don't hesitate to contact me mbrmbr@acm.org,
so I can enjoy them and reference them for the use of others. If you are
feeling adventurous an experimental search facility is available over
some of the web that this page points to.
The Maritime History Virtual Archives
The definitive source of links and information on maritime history available
on the web all in one web site.
buy the Golden Hind!!!
The Legendary Golden Hind is actualy for sale!
She can be yours for a mear US $800,000!
From the pages of history, this famous reproduction of this
famous vessel is now offered for sale.
The Mary Rose
The Mary Rose is the only 16th century warship on display
anywhere in the world. Built between 1509 and 1511, she was
one of the first ships able to fire a broadside, and was a
firm favourite of King Henry VIII. After a long and successful
career, she sank accidentally during an engagement with the French
fleet in 1545. Her rediscovery and raising were seminal events in
the history of nautical archaeology.
The sacking of the galleon Santa Ana
On the heels of the upstart Nuestra Señora de Buena Esperanza,
the official trade galleon of 1587 from Manila. the Santa Ana,
approaced the coast of California where it would swing down on a
South-South-Easterly course to Acapulco. The galleon was under the
command of Tomás de Alzola and it had left the port of Cavite the last
week of June, some four-and-a-half months earlier..................
The Shipyard -- Green Dragon Armoury
You may be wondering why anyone would ever want to spend the time and
money to build a Viking (or any other medieval) craft...but for all the
amateur boatbuilders out there, have fun!
Ship Building | General Resources | Coracles | Ruins | Viking Age Replicas | Other Replicas
Worlds greatest historic ships
Links to Flagship Portsmouth, Mary Rose, HMS Victory, HMS Warrior 1860,
The Royal Naval Museum, Dockyard Apprentice, and Warships by Water.......
Shipbuilding Links
A great list of Choice SCA perioud ship building links from the good gentles
at the Atlantian A&S Homepage.....;-)
Plymouth Naval Base Museum - Notes on Sailing Warships
Great material on every detail of early fighting ships and Men-Of-War.
The definitive source of info on shipboard cannoneering.
Example of text covered; "In the 16th century the "Great Guns" were
classified according to size with such names as:- Cannon royal,
Cannon, Demi cannon, Culverin, Demi-Culverin, Falcon, Falconer,
Minion, etc."
The Mary Rose Schools Home Page for kids.
Hello kiddies, my name is Tudor rat and I am going to help you to learn about
the Mary Rose. We shall learn about life on board a ship, the
excavation and movement to Portsmouth Harbour from the sea-bed
and the conservation to preserve the ship.
Join me with the story by clicking on one of the rats on the left hand side of the page and we shall begin our journey.
MAST & SAIL IN EUROPE AND ASIA
THE present chapters are the outcome of some years of varied sea travel.
They attempt to record the peculiarities of the principal types of
sailing-craft in Europe and Asia which I have observed, or of which
I have had experience, and in many cases have handled for myself.
Maritime History Citations (Salty lingo)
I have been reading maritime and related history for the OED since
May 1995 and am now able, thanks to the cooperation of Oxford University
Press and the University of Minnesota at Duluth, to make a selection of
my slips available on the Web. My aim is two-fold: to provide some small
insight into the prodigious amount of detailed work required to produce
a new edition of the greatest of all historical dictionaries of English,
and to make available in the interval before publication some of the
historically and lexicographically interesting data from my reading.
(The citations are predominantly of maritime terms, but there are also
many from the general vocabulary.)
Information on ships of the Spanish Amada
This page contains a detailed listing of the following;
1.LIST OF BRITISH SHIPS AT SPANISH ARMADA CAMPAIGN.
2.MERCHANT SHIPS APPOINTED TO SERVE WESTWARDS UNDER SIR FRANCIS DRAKE.
3.SHIPS FITTED OUT AND PAID BY THE CITY OF LONDON
4.MERCHANT SHIPS SERVING UNDER THE LORD HIGH ADMIRAL.
5.VESSELS WHICH TRANSPORTED VICTUALS WESTWARDS
6.COASTERS UNDER THE LORD HIGH ADMIRAL, AND PAID BY THE QUEEN
7.COASTERS UNDER LORD HENRY SEYMOUR, SOME PAID BY THE QUEEN BUT MOST BY THE PORT ToWNS
8.VOLUNTARY SHIPS WHICH JOINED WHEN THE AMRADA WAS ON THE COAST AND WERE PAID BY THE QUEEN DURING SERVICE
Jamestown 1607-1630
At this site you will be able to:
see photographs of the Native American Settlement of the Powhatan Tribe,
explore the ships (replicas) which brought the English settlers to
Virginia in 1607,
view colonial life in James Fort, a recreation of the 1610 fort
described by an early English colonist.
WWW-VL: HISTORY: MAPS
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library (WWW-VL) central catalogue
listing of links to historical maps and cartography.
16TH CENTURY Spanish EXPLORATION VESSELS
Official Website of the Pensacola Archeology Lab containing detailes about
16TH CENTURY Spanish EXPLORATION VESSELS used By the fleets Of
Narvaez/Vaca, Soto, and Luna.
1492: AN ONGOING VOYAGE
an Exhibit of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC
1492. Columbus. The date and the name provoke many questions
related to the linking of very different parts of the world,
the Western Hemisphere and the Mediterranean. What was life
like in those areas before 1492? What spurred European expansion?
How did European, African and American peoples react to each other?
What were some of the immediate results of these contacts?
Replicas & Shipbuilding
The Nordic Underwater Archaeology web page.
If you like history and scuba diving, this is for you. The
Baltic Sea, in Northern Europe, is a cold brackish sea where
wood is preserved for centuries. Many sunken ships still wait
to be discovered. This site is mostly about Northern Europe but contains
refrences to other areas.
The Half Moon Website
The Half Moon is a life size, working replica of Henry Hudson's Half Moon.
Built in Albany, New York, it serves as an educational experience for students
and all with an interest in Nautical history.
Cabot 500 Celebrations Website
During 1997 we have looked back and celebrated the landfall
of John Cabot in 1497. Cabot's venture across the Atlantic in
the Matthew has been celebrated in fine style throughout the
province of Newfoundland & Labrador with many highly successful
events. We have looked back on the past 500 years with pride and
dignity as we celebrated our history and our culture.
The Pirate Webring!!!
The Pirate Webring is the first, as far as I know, webring
dealing with piracy of the high seas, swashbucking, rumdrinking
and such fun stuff. The idea is to link as many pirate sites as
possible together.
Teach's Hole Blackbeard Exhibit and Pyrate Specialty Shoppe
Teach's Hole Blackbeard Exhibit and Pyrate Specialty Shoppe
was founded in 1992 by George and Mickey Roberson. Our purpose
is to educate the public about Blackbeard the pirate, who was
killed at Ocracoke in 1718.
Sir Francis Drake
These pages are focused on Sir Francis Drake, and in particular on
his "Famous Voyage" - the circumnavigation of the world in the
sixteenth century, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
the Red Sea Isles
Welcome to the Red Sea Isles
Jewels of the Outer Sea Empire. Gateway to the exotic Spice Islands.
Merchants, travelers, and adventurers - opportunities abound!
The Port Irene Civic Guild regularly updates the information below for
the benefit of merchants, traders, sailors, and travelers coming to the
Red Sea Isles on business or pleasure.
THE CANADIAN PRIVATEERING HOMEPAGE
Privateers were privately owned warships ... today they are an exotic
subject, often lumped in with pirates, but in Canada's past privateers
were an accepted and respected way of waging war, and often the only
means of defence for isolated Canadian communities.
Pirates and Coins of the New World
this is a comercial page but has great pix of Spanish Doubloons, Spanish Coins,
Shipwreck Treasures, Piece of eight, escudos, and coin jewelry....
Pirate Webring (yep, it's another one!)
You may be asking "What is the Pirate Webring?". Well, it is a handy way
to link your page with other people's pages sharing the same interests
in all things piratical. In the spirit of the "Brethren of the Coast",
this ring will indeed unite us. It means an increase in traffic to your
site as well as satisfying the curiousity of pirate hunters.
The Pirate king's cove
Some Piratical guys homepage, nice resource sections....
Beej's Pirate Image Archive
The instant web source for Images of Pirates, BattlesShips, Punishment,
Pirate Fun, Documents, Maps, and Howard Pyle Images. Also has some
External Links and recomended reading...
No Quarter Given!
This be the No Quarter Given Web site,
the source fer all things piratical.
"No Quarter Given" is the clearinghouse for those interested in pirates,
privateers & nautical history. Whether ye be interested in the buccaneers
and privateers of the Caribbean Sea, the Elizabethan Sea Dogs, or
Jean Laffite's pirates of Barataria, we'll be havin' something of
interest to ya.
Sea Scouting; NAUTICAL sounds download
Sound Files to Download
Click on any of the following categories to see a list of related files:
Boatswain's Calls, Bugle Calls, Honors, Misc. Sounds, Music, National Anthems,
and Weather.
Seamanship
Historic documents on Seamanship aranged By topic, and In
Chronological Order. From The Maritime History Virtual Archives.
Ships in Bottles
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Since my Scale Reproductions web site first appeared on the
web in 1996 I have received many questions about ships in bottles.
Here are a few of them with my answers. I will update this page
occasionally as I receive more. Clicking on the following questions
will take you to the answers.
History of Ships in Bottles
Ever since sailors started bottling ships, the world has held a f
ascination for these miniature ships lovingly crafted by a seaman's
callused hands during his off-watch hours. Over those years, these
ships have turned up in the oddest places as sailors parted with their
hard-earned keepsakes as gifts for their sweethearts, friends, and
relatives, and often, to pay for the debts they ran up in port - for
entertainment, lodging and even drinks at the bar. But, when, where,
and too whom did the idea first occur of putting ships inside bottles?
The Bosun's Bag
The traditional design of The Bosun's Bag With its spliced jute rope
handles, it makes an excellent bag for tools. Other uses are endless....
The Nautical Weather Glass
It's sometimes called "The oldest barometer known to Man" -
and it very well could be. How old this genial invention actually
is, no one knows for sure. What we do know is that the Moors had
the spout barometer with them when they occupied Spain in the
year 711.......
Questions for Young Officers
Questions and answers for Young Sea Officers on such diverse topics as;
You are ordered to a ship, she is lying in dock; prepare to take
her out of dock. When your ship is out of dock, what is first to be done ?
How would you moor your ship at Gravesend ? How would you hang the anchor
to the long boat ? How do you unmoor a ship as it is done in the navy?
How would you unmoor, with the wind S. E. or S. ?
Rope and Net Making
Links to pages about Rope and Net Making from
THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SURVIVAL GROUP.
AN INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE FOR SURVIVAL & SELF-RELIANCE..
Non-Scouting Resources
Links to webpages on diverse do it your self topics. Contains links to
pages about Nautical craft such as; Caving, Knot Tying, ect....
Nautilia.net
The WorldWide Directory for Nautical Websites. Has links to:
Associations & Clubs, Boats, Nautical Books & Charts, Nautical Know How,
Maritime History, Merchant Marine, ectra........
Knot Crafts
The following are exerpts from Stuart Grainger's most recent book
"Knotted Fabrics". "Netting Techniques" is the chapter these
passages are taken from.
FORMULAS, POTIONS, LOTIONS...
A directory of simple do-it-yourself projects that just incidentaly have old
historic roots. No documentation available but the Nautical related stuff
is GREAT. has links to things like: Waterproofing Formulas,
Fireproofing Formulas, Fishing Bait - 10 Oil-Based Formulas, Metal /
Silver Polish, Brass & Copper Cleaner, ect.......
Knots on the Web
A huge collection of knotting resources.
First three sections are on Knot Tying,
Knot Theory, and Knot Art.
Fourth section is on Knot Software.
Fifth section is on Knot Books.
Sixth section is a Knot Gallery to display the images from rec.crafts.knots.
Get Knotted!
Animated Knots for Scouts.
A great Animated Knots page.
The animations are the easest way to learn all the ins and outs of
tying complex nautical knots.
Hardtack
An actualy "edible!" Hardtack recipe available on
SOAR - the Searchable Online Archive of Recipes
Needlework, Knots and Other Crafts on the High Seas
Needlework, engaged in as a pastime by sailors on their long sea voyages,
is not as farfetched a concept as one might imagine. There is an account
of a particularly burly naval officer, a champion swimmer and well known
rugby player, whose relaxation was knitting, which he did supremely well.
Another sailor, incapacitated by falling from the mast of his ship, turned
his idle hands to the practice of embroidery with great dexterity,
producing an altar cloth.
The history of the Boatswain's call or "pipe"
Piping is the Naval method of passing orders and every seaman should
know how to use a
"boatswain's call".
The use of the bosun's call goes as far back as the Crusaders (1248).
In former days it was worn in English ships as a badge of rank,
because it was always used for passing orders.
For years it was worn as a badge of office os the Lord High Admiral
of England and his successors up to 1562.
Basic Netmaking / Landing Net
How To Make A Castnet, How To Mend A Net,
How To Measure Netting Mesh Size,
How To Make A Double Selvage Edge, ect.....
Turn of the 17th cen English Sea garb (museum clothes)
A picture of one of the verry few examples of late Elizabethian seamen's
clothing from
The Costumer's Manifesto!
Seadog Costumes
The sailors of the sixteenth century did dress differently from their
cousins on the land. As contemporary illustrations of sailors are not
common, and modern illustrations such as movie costumes often fail to
follow them. For these reasons I feel it is best to
follow the period sources available, instead of compromising with the
popular modern conception of what a Seadog would have worn.
Sailor's clothing
Two examples of Elizabethian sailors and mariners clothing.
Captain Musgrave's Marinerish duds
The last quarter of the sixteenth century was a time of great English
exploration - and piracy! This character is a sea-captain of 1578.
Captains at that time had little to do with sailing a ship, but acted
as "owner-directors" of the sea-going enterprise.
His clothes show his status in the social order of things
Ship's Pilot's outfit. Circa 1578
The last quarter of the sixteenth century was a time of great English
exploration - and piracy! This man is a ship's pilot.
Ship's Navigator's outfit. Circa 1578
The last quarter of the sixteenth century was a time of great
English exploration - and piracy! This man is a ship's navigator.
The American Practical Navigator
This publication contains the following sections.
Click the link to view a section on-line or download
the file using your web browser's download mechanism.
All documents are in PDF format. In order to view them on-line,
you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader© plug-in installed in your
browser.
Columbus and Dead Reckoning (DR) navigation
At the end of the fifteenth century, celestial navigation was just
being developed in Europe, primarily by the Portuguese. Prior to the
development of celestial navigation, sailors navigated by "deduced"
(or "dead") reckoning, hereafter called DR. This was the method used
by Columbus and most other sailors of his era.
Medieval Science
and
Scientific Instruments
A great site with detailed instructions on constructing replica Medieval
navigational Instruments such as Astrolabes, Armillary Spheres, Torquetums,
Sun Dials, Quadrants, the Cross Staff, and a basic Dry-Card Box Compass.
Heaving the Log. A Traditional Way to Measure Speed at Sea
This is a long single page on the folowing topics;
Heaving the Log, THE LOG-LINE AND HALF-MINUTE GLASS, Details of Construction of the Log
According to Bowditch, Making and Using a Traditional Log Today, and a
wonderfull bibliography of References.
History of Navigation
General information about the history of navigation. containing info about
Celestial Navigation, Celestial Navigation at Sea, Course, Heading and Track,
Dead Reckoning, Direction and Distance, Early Developments in Navigation
From the 17th Century to the Present, History of Navigation,
Marine Navigation, Navigational Lights and Buoys, Piloting,
The Celestial Sphere, The First Navigational Aids,
The Instruments of Navigation, and The Theory of Celestial Navigation.
COMPASS ROSES FROM PORTUGUESE NAUTICAL CHARTS
Every nautical chart maker had his own characteristic compass rose using
different color oppositions. Here are a few early sixteenth-century
examples: red/blue contrasts on the top row, red/black with gold on
the bottom.
The roses differ in style as well. Some are highly ornate
(a style called Manueline), while others are almost modernist.
INSTRUMENTS OF NAVIGATION NECESSARY FOR COASTING
A funky (weird translated) page with historic info on
Mercator's chart, The mariner's compass, The spirit compass, Variation,
Deviation, The log ship and line, and The lead line.
A General History of the Pyrates
The true stories of those naughty pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny.
Sir Walter Raleigh's Third Voyage
From Hakuyt's Voyages vol. 4 (See Peter Duck, chapter 36).
Secrets of Ancient Navigation
NOVA Online The Search for Longitude Secrets of Ancient Navigation.
The Bushwalker's Guide to Improvised Navigation
Improvised Navigation is being able to find your way without a compass,
GPS or other sophisticated navigational device. Improvised navigation
techniques are based on methods used by mankind for centuries prior to
the invention of the compass.
Cross Staff Projects
Some information about the Cross Staff:
The cross staff has been used since ancient times to make
angular measurements. As with the quadrant, the cross staff
was used by navigators and astronomers to measure VERTICAL
angles of separation. The cross staff can also easily measure
HORIZONTAL angles of separation.
The History of Navigation
The first record of boats large enough to carry goods for trade is around
3500 B.C. and this would mark the birth of the art of navigation.These
first navigators stayed close to shore and navigated by sight of landmarks
or land characteristics that they could see. Usually they traveled by day
and sought a calm harbor or anchorage at night.
A Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Tours by subject;
Mediaeval manuscripts and illumination,
Block books and (post-)incunabula,
Alba amicorum,
Engravings,
Woodcuts,
Lithographs,
Drawings,
Typography and design until 1800,
Modern typography and design,
Book bindings and design,
Decorated paper and papermaking,
Religious works,
Literature until 1800,
Modern literature,
Historical works,
Art (incl. architecture),
Music,
Geography,
(Natural) Sciences....
America as the Garden during the Renaissance
Many of the earliest English explorers characterized the New World as an
earthly paradise or recovered Eden. This was probably, at least in part,
an attempt to encourage private investors to subsidize new explorations--
ventures in which England's Queen Elizabeth was reluctant to risk state
funds.
The Tempest and the
Bermuda Shipwreck of 1609
This article first appeared in the Summer 1996 Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter.
This article glances briefly at the question of whether The Tempest is based on the 1609 Bermuda wreck.
Seamans Secrets
The Seamans Secrets is a navigation manual, written by English seaman and
navigator, John Davis. His letter of dedication to Lord Charles Howard,
Baron od Effingham is dated 19 August 1594. One of the tables included in
the text is for 1593.
The Spanish Armada
(1588)
The Spanish Armada of 1588 explores the story of King Philip II of Spain's
attempt to invade England, which resulted in what is regarded as the longest
naval battle in history.
Historic picturs
Picturs of famous People available on the web: pre1760
Nautical Bibliographies
MEDIEVAL SEAFARING IN NORTHERN EUROPE.
The Roman Period and "Celtic" Shipbuilding
Upcoming Events Photo & Diagrams Glossary of Nautical Terms
Web Rings Recommended Reading
Other Nautical Websites
