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What is A ship with square and triangular sails?
"Square-riggers" have primarily square sails, but the jib sails are triangular.
What is the ship with square and triangular sails?
caravel
A ship developed in the 1400s with triangular sails for tracking into the wind and square sails to for running before the wind?
A caravael
Lanteen sails were triangular these sails were square?
Square sails are square
What is it called a ship with triangular sails?
Sloops, ketches, and yawls have triangular-shaped sails.
What was the difference between caravels and earlier ships?
the caravel has triangular sails as well as square sails. Square sails carried the ship forward when the wind was at its back. Triangular sails allowed the caravel to sail into the wind. the caravel was better than other euoopean ships of the time at this type of sailing
What does caravel mean in a simple definition?
a ship with triangular sails that allowed it to sail into the wind and with square sails that carried it forward when the wind was at it's back.
Lateen sails were triangular these sails were square?
Trapezoidal, actually. But the square sails were called square sails. Lateen or square could be referred to as yards.
If La-teen sails were triangular which type of sails are square?
Square sails (rectangular) were (are) called four-cornered sails.
If lateen sails were triangular which type of sails were square?
They were referred to as "four-cornered" sails.
What is a seven letter word for a ship with triangular sails?
A clipper.
If lateen sails were triangular what were the square sails called in medieval times?
Square sails are not truly square but rectangular with a longer long side on the bottom perimeter of the sail. They were and are referred to as "four-cornered" sails.
