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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.
Figurehead on a model of the French ship Océan. A figurehead is a carved wooden decoration found at the bow of ships, generally of a design related to the name or role of a ship. They were predominant between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and modern ships' badges fulfil a similar role.
North Sea (17th–19th centuries) A galiot was a type of Dutch or German merchant ship of 20 to 400 tons , similar to a ketch, with a rounded fore and aft like a fluyt. Galiots had nearly flat bottoms to sail in shallow waters. These ships were especially favoured for coastal navigation in the North and Baltic seas.
The archaeologists split, some concluding it was likely a bowsprit dating from a ship hundreds of years old, and others that it was a common pound net stake used for fishing nets in the 19th century. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Later radio carbon dating was inconclusive, indicating it could have been fashioned between 1660 and 1950. [ 24 ]
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
Kalmar Nyckel was constructed in about 1625, and was of a design called a pinnace.The ship was originally named Sleutel (Dutch for 'key'), and to distinguish it from several other ships called Key it was known by the name of the city of Kalmar, which purchased the ship in 1629, as its contribution to a state-sponsored trading company, Skeppskompaniet.