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CARAVEL, or CARVEL (from the Gr. Kapa(3os, a light ship, through the Ital. carabella and the Span. carabas)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 303 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAL-CAR
CARAVEL, or CARVEL (from the Gr. Kapa(3os, a light ship, through the Ital. carabella and the Span. carabas) , a name applied at different times and in different countries to
ships
  of very varying
appearance
  and build, as in Turkey to a ship of war, and in
France
  to a small boat used in the herring
fishery
 . In the 15th and 16th centuries, caravels were much used by the Portuguese and Spanish for
long
  voyages. They were roundish
ships
 , with a
double
  tower at the stern, and a single one in the bows, and were galley rigged. Two out of the three vessels in which
Columbus
  sailed on his voyage of discovery to America were " caravels." Carvel, the older
English
  form, is now used only in the
term
  " carvel-built," for a boat in which the planking is flush with the edges laid side to side, in distinction from " clinker-built," where the edges overlap.


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