Carrack - Famous Carracks

Famous Carracks

• Santa María, in which Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to America in 1492.
• São Gabriel, commanded by Vasco da Gama in the 1497 Portuguese expedition from Europe to India by circumnavigating Africa.
• Flor de la Mar, served over nine years in the Indian Ocean, sinking in 1512 with Afonso de Albuquerque after the conquest of Malacca with a huge booty, making it one of the mythical lost treasures.
• Victoria, the first ship in history to circumnavigate the globe (1519 to 1522), and the only survivor of the Spanish expedition.
• La Dauphine, Verrazzano's ship to explore the Atlantic coast of North America in 1524.
• Grande Hermine, in which Jacques Cartier first navigated the Saint Lawrence River in 1535. The first European ship to sail on this river past the Gulf.
• Santo António, or St. Anthony, the personal property of King John III of Portugal, wrecked off Gunwalloe Bay in 1527, the salvage of whose cargo almost led to a war between England and Portugal.
• Great Michael, a Scottish ship, at one time the largest in Europe.
• Mary Rose, Henri Grâce à Dieu and Peter Pomegranate, built during the reign of Henry VIII — English military carracks like these were often called great ships.
• Grace Dieu, commissioned by Henry V
• Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai, a war ship built in India by the Portuguese
• Santa Anna, a particularly modern design commissioned by the Knights Hospitaller in 1522 and sometimes hailed as the first armoured ship.
• Madre de Deus, which was seized by the Royal Navy off Flores Island in 1592 with an enormously valuable cargo.
• Santa Catarina, which was seized by the Dutch East India Company off Singapore in 1603.
• Peter von Danzig, ship of the Hanseatic League in 1460s-1470s.