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CARAVEL, or CARVEL (from the Gr. Kapa...

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 303 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARAVEL, or CARVEL (from the Gr. Kapa(3os, a See also:light See also:ship, through the Ital. carabella and the Span. carabas)  , a name applied at different times and in different countries to See also:ships of very varying See also:appearance and build, as in See also:Turkey to a See also:ship of See also:war, and in See also:France to a small See also:boat used in the See also:herring See also:fishery . In the 15th and 16th centuries, caravels were much used by the Portuguese and See also:Spanish for See also:long voyages . They were roundish ships, with a See also:double See also:tower at the stern, and a single one in the bows, and were See also:galley rigged . Two out of the three vessels in which See also:Columbus sailed on his voyage of See also:discovery to See also:America were " caravels." Carvel, the older See also:English See also:form, is now used only in the See also:term " carvel-built," for a boat in which the planking is flush with the edges laid See also:side to side, in distinction from " See also:clinker-built," where the edges overlap .

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