The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution . ints were made of the heatand smell which necessarily arose therefrom, and in someships it was placed in the forecastle. We referred above to the change in naval matterswhich had ensued as the result of introducing cannon onboard ships. We shall have reason again to mention thisinnovation here in noticing the development of the shipin the sixteenth century. We mentioned also that in theMediterranean the craft had developed along two separatelines—the galley and the round-ship. As time proceededit was found that neither of these t
The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution . ints were made of the heatand smell which necessarily arose therefrom, and in someships it was placed in the forecastle. We referred above to the change in naval matterswhich had ensued as the result of introducing cannon onboard ships. We shall have reason again to mention thisinnovation here in noticing the development of the shipin the sixteenth century. We mentioned also that in theMediterranean the craft had developed along two separatelines—the galley and the round-ship. As time proceededit was found that neither of these types was perfect;there was something lacking in both, and each had thedefects of its virtues. For instance, the galley was easyto manoeuvre as she had always been, and for that reasonwas a very useful unit in war. At the same time she wasof low freeboard, not much of a bad-weather craft, andunfitted for long ocean passages. The round-ship, on theother hand, was slow, but able to hold her own in galesof wind. In light winds the galley was able to run rings 80. THE SHIP DURING TUDOR TIMES round her. Her very ponderousness became a positivehindrance to her fighting qualities. Therefore Europeanshipmen were driven to realise that what was wanted wassuch a vessel as would to some extent include the virtuesof both of these separate types, with as many of thedefects as possible eliminated. As a result the galleontype of ship was introduced. In reality she was acompromise, as every kind of ship always has been andalways will be, for one reason or other. She had alength of three times her beam, with a long flat floor,a freeboard greater than a galley, but not so loftyas in the case of the big carracks engaged in carryingmerchandise. In the vessels of this type but of superiortonnage the galleon had at least two, and sometimesthree decks. But the galleon was found also to be not entirelysatisfactory, and from her was evolved the great shipor ship of the line, such a vessel as was capab
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