Page 14 - History of War - Issue 18-15

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WARSHIPSOFTHEWORLD

The world’s oceans have been home to some major battles,
fromthetimeoftheAncientGreekstotheNapoleonicWars

Longship
Fluyt 793
Brig 17th century Speciality: Surprise
18th century Speciality: Opening attacksoncoastal
Speciality: Fast two- up the New World to towns and ports
masted ship the Dutch Location: Scandinavia
Location: USA Location: Netherlands

Ship of the line
17th century
Speciality: Huge ships
packed with cannons
Location: Britain Galleon
16th-18th century
Speciality: 500-
Caravel ton gunship
15th-16th century Location:
Speciality: The Mediterranean
workhorseofthe
1 Renaissance era 4
Location: Spain
3 2
Mano’War
16th-18th century 5 8
1 THEBATTLEOFCHESAPEAKE Speciality: Ending the
ageofgalleywarfare
ATLANTIC OCEAN, OFF THE VIRGINIA CAPES, USA Location: Portugal
5 SEPTEMBER 1781 Trireme
A major blow to the British in the American War of Independence, 480 BCE
asChesapeakeBayislosttotheFrenchafterabattlethatsees War galley Speciality: Ramming
the navy failing to support its army at the siege of Yorktown. other vessels
264 BCE
Speciality: Location: Greece
Overwhelming the
Carthaginian navy
Location: Italy

Carrack
14th-17th century
Speciality: The
caravel’s big brother
Location: Italy

2 THEBATTLEOFTRAFALGAR
ATLANTICOCEAN,OFFCÁDIZ,SPAIN 21 OCTOBER 1805
Although it was tactically inconclusive, the
British failure at Chesapeake prevented the OffthecoastofSpain,theFrenchandSpanishnaviesgearup
navy from rescuing Lord Cornwallis’s army to face the British. Huge ships of the line fire cannonballs into
one another, and the Royal Navy emerges victorious.

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