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The Vice Admiralty Court was a prerogative court established in the early 16th. A vice-admiralty court is in effect an admiralty court. The word “vice” in the name of the court denoted that the court represented the Lord Admiral of the United Kingdom. In English legal theory, the Lord Admiral, as vice-regal of the monarch, was the only ...
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c. 1500 BC: Settlers from Crete, Greece move to Miletus, Turkey. c. 1500 BC: Early traces of Maya civilization developing in Belize. c. 1500 BC: The Phoenicians develop an alphabet—see Timeline of communication technology. c. 1500 BC: Indo-Aryan migration is often dated to the 17th to 16th centuries. c. 1500 BC: Birth of Zoroaster (Avestan ...
Nautical charts and textual descriptions known as sailing directions have been in use in one form or another since the sixth century BC. [14] Nautical charts using stereographic and orthographic projections date back to the second century BC. [14] In 1900, the Antikythera mechanism was recovered from Antikythera wreck. This mechanism was built ...
These had non-overlapping planks on a frame. Gunports became used in the mid 16th century. The main type of English galleon had a low bow, a sleek hull and a large number of heavy guns. It was both speedy and maneuverable. In the 16th century the Thames region had become the main shipbuilding area.
This list of naval battles is a chronological list delineating important naval battles that have occurred throughout history, from the beginning of naval warfare with the Hittites in the 12th century BC to piracy off the coast of Somalia in the 21st century. If a battle has no commonly used name it is referred to as "Action of (date)" within ...
5th century BC: Hanno the Navigator explores the coast of West Africa. 480 BC: Battle of Salamis, arguably the largest naval battle in ancient times. 256 BC: Battle of Cape Ecnomus, one of Ancient Rome's first major naval victories over Carthage during the First Punic War; 247 BC: Lighthouse of Alexandria completed. 214 BC: Lingqu Canal built.
It would soon become a hereditary office, in the control of the Earls of Bothwell in the 15th and 16th centuries and the Earls of Lennox in the 17th century. [ 70 ] King James II (1430–1460, reigned 1437–1460) is known to have purchased a caravel by 1449. [ 71 ]