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Salvaging technology in the early 17th century was much more primitive than today, but the recovery of ships used roughly the same principles as were used to raise Vasa more than 300 years later. Two ships or hulks were placed parallel to either side above the wreck, and ropes attached to several anchors were sent down and hooked to the ship.
The Dutch built pinnaces during the early 17th century. [ citation needed ] Dutch pinnaces had a hull form resembling a small race-built galleon and usually rigged as a ship ( square rigged on three masts ), or carrying a similar rig on two masts (in a fashion akin to the later " brig ").
Furthermore, several ship type and rig terms were used in the 17th century, but with very different definitions from those applied today. Often decked over, the "small" pinnace was able to support a variety of rigs, each of which conferred maximum utility to specific missions such as fishing, cargo transport and storage, or open ocean voyaging.
The Spanish xebec of Antonio Barceló (center) attacked by two Algerian galiotes (1738) A Dutch galiot from Willaumez's Dictionnaire de la Marine in the 17th century. A galiot, galliot or galiote, was a small galley boat propelled by sail or oars. There are three different types of naval galiots that sailed on different seas.
A portolan nautical chart of the Mediterranean Sea, second quarter of the 14th century. Kept in the Library of Congress , where it is the oldest original cartographic artifact. Portolan charts are nautical charts , first made in the 13th century in the Mediterranean basin and later expanded to include other regions.
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The port quarter galleries of the 17th century warship Vasa. The galleries alone have over 70 highly ornate wooden sculptures of varying themes and size, all of which were originally painted in bright, vivid colors. A quarter gallery is an architectural feature of the stern of a sailing ship