caravel
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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.
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The 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.
Da Gama and his sickly brother eventually hitched a ride with a Guinea caravel returning to Portugal, but Paulo da Gama died en route.
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.
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.
The name caravel may derive from an earlier Arab ship known as the qārib.
Two of the vessels were as naus or newly built for the voyage, possibly a caravel and a supply boat.