Here's another useful online resource about medieval sea transport. In today's post on the Clarion blog, Rick Spilman describes a carrack, a type of late medieval ship, and labels all the parts.

For more about medieval ships, don't forget about the post from October 2009 on Michael of Rhodes

Today's nifty discovery is a website devoted to the world's oldest known treatise on shipbuilding.

Michael of Rhodes was a Venetian mariner whose career spanned the first half of the fifteenth century. He compiled a book of useful information for sailors, including tables for keeping track of times and dates, navigation methods, mathematical ( Read more... )