| Summary: | Sails through the Centuries 1965 Roman merchantman, circa A.D. 200 -- Nordic Viking ship, tenth century: a small longship -- Nordic ship with castles: a knarr from the middle of the thirteenth century -- Holk from the end of the Middle Ages, successor to the cog of the Hanseatic League, shown here with a cargo of dried fish -- Spanish nao and two caravels, as in Columbus' fleet in 1492 -- Western European carrack from the beginning of the sixteenth century -- Swedish kravel from the middle of the sixteenth century: Gustavus Vasa's Elefanten -- Large man-of-war, company ship, galleon, from the end of the sixteenth century -- A boyart, a small Northern European sailing vessel from the sixteenth century -- A flute (flyboat) with a round stern and bluff bow, a common Dutch merchantman during the seventeenth century -- Pinnace, Dutch type, from the middle of the seventeenth century -- Dutch Statenjacht for official and private use -- Swedish mail packet Hiorten, built in 1692, carried the mail between Ystad and Stralsund -- A ship of fifty guns, circa 1690 - after Rålamb -- Swedish ship of the line Göta Lejon, seventy-two guns, built at Karlskrona in 1746 -- Swedish trading frigate, circa 1768 - after Henrik af Chapman -- Swedish hukares (hookers), big and small, circa 1760 -- Algerian xebec, Mediterranean pirate and man-of-war of the eighteenth century -- Sail on the Aegean Sea: a Turkish caïque and a Greek fishing vessel from Mykonos -- Swedish krejare, circa 1760 -- Swedish East Indiaman - this ship was launched on October 20, 1786, and was named Götheborg -- The Swedish snow Gustaf Adolph, built at Kalmar in 1783 -- The Swedish bark Fortuna, built at Umeå in 1792, a Mediterranean trader -- The brigantine Bull, from Stockholm, built in 1841, the second Swedish ship to sail around the world -- Swedish brig Dahlkarlså, of Stockholm, built in 1862, a Brazilian trader, with Belgian pilot cutter -- Baltimore clipper, circa 1820, the forerunner of the American clipper -- American whaling bark from the 1850's, hunting ...
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