Galleons for a Transatlantic World

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Galleons for a Transatlantic World

The late 16th and early 17th centuries was a period in which English shipping saw the emergence of what might be termed a second generation of carvel construction in which the ‘galleon’ was developed from the carrack derivatives and galleases of Henry VIII’s time. Nowhere are these more beautifully portrayed than in Matthew Baker’s Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrightry preserved in the Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge. But astonishingly the remains of several English ships from this period survive in Bermuda, the first being Sea Venture, whose stranding on the reefs in 1609 began the permanent settlement of the islands. With the establishment of the colony in 1612 a succession of English ships voyaged to Bermuda on colonial business, many of them never to return, the best preserved being the Warwick (1619).

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Guns, Provisions, and the Governor: The Wreck of the Warwick, Bermuda 1619   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2013

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