"Carracks" Topic
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| Prince Alberts Revenge | 16 Nov 2006 7:29 a.m. PST |
Were any carracks present in the Spanish fleet during the Armada campaign of 1588? I am constructing and painting some of Valiant's Carracks (large hulking models!)…would it be reasonable for the Spanish to use Carracks in their campaigns against the English in the second half of the 16th century? Thanks! |
| Cpt Arexu | 16 Nov 2006 8:57 a.m. PST |
Wouldn't there be Portuguese Carracks present? And some of the contract/levy/whatever vessels carrying troops for the invasion might be carracks as well… |
aecurtis  | 16 Nov 2006 10:59 a.m. PST |
Without going and digging out "The Great Armada", I seem to recall that there were something like forty or so carracks as transports for men and materiel. Yep, 44 carracks and 23 urcas: link Allen |
Shagnasty  | 16 Nov 2006 11:01 a.m. PST |
Check Mattingly's "The Armada." I think he has a breakdown of fleet composition. There was a Portuguese galleon squadron although without research I can't name any names. The carrack was noteworthy as being big, awkward and somewhat unseaworthy. They were not the optimal vessels for NW European waters, especially the Channel |
| reddrabs | 17 Nov 2006 5:20 a.m. PST |
I have often wondered if they were similar to the carracks of about a hundred years before… ships were evolving quite quickly and I think of them as carrack types. |
| desert war | 15 Oct 2009 1:23 p.m. PST |
from my limited knowledge base, I understand the a Nao was what the Spanish called a carrack. I would also suppose that the Carrack of 1580 was of better design then a Carrack of 1480 but then ships of that time and even now lasted a long time so to see a 30 or 40 year old ship probaly wasn't all that strange esp. when you consider that Spain scraped together pretty much every hull they could find.
Now having said that may I ask another question, were there any caravels around in the Spanish fleet? |
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