The caravel (a light sailing ship) was invented in the late 1400s by the Portuguese. They were built to explore along the West African Coast and into the Atlantic Ocean. It was an improvement of older ships and could sail very fast and well into the wind. Caravels were smaller and lighter then the later made Spanish Galleons (which were made in the 1500s). The ship’s thick planking on the hull replaced thinner and less adequate planking. They were broad-beamed ships that had two or three masts with square and triangular sails (which are called lateens). Caravels were about 65 feet long and could carry lots of cargo (around 130 tons)
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