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What (who) is carrack - definition

TYPE OF SAILING SHIP IN THE 15TH CENTURY
Carracks; Nau (ship); Nao (ship)
  • Three- and four-masted carracks
  • Naval battle involving carracks and galleys
  • C. 1558 painting of a large carrack attributed to [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder]].
  • Ottoman]] ''barca'' from [[Piri Reis]]' map.
  • Princess Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy]] in 1521.
  • 16th-century depiction of a Portuguese ''nau''
  • Replica of ''Dubrovačka karaka'' (Dubrovnik Carrack), used between the 14th and the 17th century for cargo transport in the [[Republic of Ragusa]] (present-day [[Croatia]])
  • Replica of a small 15th-century or 16th-century carrack at [[Vila do Conde]], Portugal.

carrack         
['kar?k]
¦ noun a large European merchant ship of a kind operating from the 14th to the 17th century.
Origin
ME: from OFr. caraque; perh. from Sp. carraca, from Arab.
Carrack         
·noun ·see Carack.
São Bento (carrack)         
  • The nau (carrack) was a type of vessel that was larger than a caravel but smaller than the later galleon}}
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PORTUGUESE SHIP WRECKED OFF THE MBHASHE RIVER MOUTH, SOUTH AFRICA IN 1554
Sao Bento (carrack)
São Bento (Saint Benedict), commanded by captain Fernão de Álvares Cabral, the son of Pedro Álvares Cabral, was a Portuguese carrack of 900 tons wrecked in April 1554 near the mouth of the Msikaba River, midway between Port Edward and Port St. Johns on the Transkei coast of South Africa.

Wikipedia

Carrack

A carrack (Portuguese: nau; Spanish: nao; Catalan: carraca; Croatian: karaka) is a three- or four-masted ocean-going sailing ship that was developed in the 14th to 15th centuries in Europe, most notably in Portugal. Evolved from the single-masted cog, the carrack was first used for European trade from the Mediterranean to the Baltic and quickly found use with the newly found wealth of the trade between Europe and Africa and then the trans-Atlantic trade with the Americas. In their most advanced forms, they were used by the Portuguese for trade between Europe and Asia starting in the late 15th century, before eventually being superseded in the 17th century by the galleon, introduced in the 16th century.

In its most developed form, the carrack was a carvel-built ocean-going ship: large enough to be stable in heavy seas, and capacious enough to carry a large cargo and the provisions needed for very long voyages. The later carracks were square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast. They had a high rounded stern with aftcastle, forecastle and bowsprit at the stem. As the predecessor of the galleon, the carrack was one of the most influential ship designs in history; while ships became more specialized in the following centuries, the basic design remained unchanged throughout this period.

Examples of use of carrack
1. Rock singer–musician Paul Carrack (Mike and the Mechanics; Squeeze) is 56.