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In the ancient world the square sail on "square rigged ships" was employed universally in the Mediterranean on the seagoing ships of the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans. In Hellenistic and Roman times a spritsail (triangular sails) was sometimes set on a small raking foremast, known as an artemoon, in order to sail with a beam wind.
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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 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
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.
What is a seven letter word for a ship with triangular sails?
A clipper.
Why were carvels able to sail against the wind while other ships cannot?
Well, back then people used the traditional square sails. So when the Caravel was built they used triangular sails instead of the traditional square sails which made the ship able to sail against the wind.
What are the foremost sails found on a fully rigged ship called?
foremost sail has triangular shape
What is the name of the Structure on a ship that holds the sails?
They sails are attached to the masts of the ship. The mast is a pole that runs straight up or angled up out of the deck of the ship.
What was old Ironsides powered by?
Sails. It's a square-rigged sailing ship.
