id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ig53zppym5cm5mpxazcugkm5za F. Castro A Quantitative Look at Mediterranean Lateen- and Square-Rigged Ships (Part 1) 2008 13 .pdf application/pdf 8068 1847 87 CASTRO ET AL.: MEDITERRANEAN LATEENAND SQUARE-RIGGED SHIPS (PART 1)NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, the three-masted ships of the modern age of sail, in the beginning of the 15th century. characteristics of late-medieval vessels in the hope of finding patterns that will help understand the relatively-quick technological evolution of Mediterranean merchant craft of the 14th and 15th centuries. Lateen rigging, square rigging, Mediterranean seafaring, sailing performance, technological change. change in their rigging: lateen sails are easy to which ship-types first adopted lateen sails and by the vessels that adopted the new lateen rig, and factors led the shift both from shellto skeletonbased hull construction and from large squarerigged ships to smaller and faster lateeners. the 14th century to the square-rigged, oceangoing ship. century a new type of ship appeared in the : MEDITERRANEAN LATEENAND SQUARE-RIGGED SHIPS (PART 1) : MEDITERRANEAN LATEENAND SQUARE-RIGGED SHIPS (PART 1) medieval lateen-rigged ships with a number of ./cache/work_ig53zppym5cm5mpxazcugkm5za.pdf ./txt/work_ig53zppym5cm5mpxazcugkm5za.txt