Noun
A name given to several kinds of vessels.
The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.
A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.
A small fishing boat used on the French coast.
A Turkish man-of-war.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe crew of the caravel Nina also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs. Christopher Columbus
Da Gama and his sickly brother eventually hitched a ride with a Guinea caravel returning to Portugal, but Paulo da Gama died en route. Source: Internet
He eventually took passage on an Azorean caravel and finally arrived in Lisbon on 29 August 1499 (according to Barros), João de Barros, Da Asia, Dec. I, Lib. Source: Internet
The dangers of orbiting the earth in a space ship, she finds, are surprisingly similar to those of circumnavigating the globe in a 15th-century caravel. Source: Internet
The name caravel may derive from an earlier Arab ship known as the qārib. Source: Internet
Two of the vessels were as naus or newly built for the voyage, possibly a caravel and a supply boat. Source: Internet