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carrack

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See Carack.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Shipwreck on the Flor de la mar, 1511 On 20 November 1511 Afonso sailed from Malacca to the coast of Malabar on the old Flor de la mar carrack that had served to support the conquest of Malacca. Source: Internet

Setting out in April 1524, with a fleet of fourteen ships, Vasco da Gama took as his flagship the famous large carrack Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai on her last journey to India, along with two of his sons, Estêvão and Paulo. Source: Internet

The Mary Rose was built according to the carrack -style with high "castles" in the bow and stern with a low waist of open decking in the middle. Source: Internet

The 1536 rebuilding turned a ship of 500 tons into one of 700 tons, and added an entire extra tier of broadside guns to the old carrack -style structure. Source: Internet

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