Qing dynasty fengzhou (seal ship) or dignitary vessel
"Ship of the seal" [Chinese: fēngzhōu 封舟, Japanese: hōbune ほぶね or hansen 帆船, seal ship]; in the Ryukyu Kingdom, they were called “crown ships” [Japanese: kansen/okansen 御冠船; Okinawan: kwanshin/ukwanshin おかんせん]... More
English ship Ark Royal at the Battle of Gravelines (1588) - Invincible...
English ships and the Spanish Armada, August 1588. The painting may have been a design for a tapestry, or if not is laid out like one, and is dateable to the years immediately following the event. The composit... More
English ship Revenge at Battle of Gravelines (1588) - Invincible Armad...
English ships and the Spanish Armada, August 1588. The painting may have been a design for a tapestry, or if not is laid out like one, and is dateable to the years immediately following the event. The composit... More
Invincible Armada. Warship photograph collection
English ships and the Spanish Armada, August 1588. The painting may have been a design for a tapestry, or if not is laid out like one, and is dateable to the years immediately following the event. The composit... More
Charles Edward Dixon HMS Lion 1509, captured 1511 Royal Scottish Navy
The Lion, built c.1505, was a ship fitted out for warfare which was used as a privateer sanctioned by James IV and his Royal Scottish Navy. It plundered Portuguese ships from French port bases, and was detain... More
Charles Edward Dixon The Revenge 1591 Battle of Flores Azores
The Revenge during the 1591 Battle of Flores in the Azores, by Charles Edward Dixon.Scanned image using an Epson Perfection V800.
Seki middle class Japanese vessel
日本語: 『将軍乗船図』 -御召御関船七十六挺立。江戸時代の作品。
Lodewijcksz - Historie van Indien - 1617 - UB Radboud Uni Nijmegen - 2...
Illustration from 1617 edition of Willem Lodewijcksz (or G.M.A.W.L): Historie van IndienDescription from the Cambridge History of Southeast Asia:When the Dutch first arrived in the busy port of Banten at the c... More
Ming dynasty hybrid junk - Drawing. Public domain image.
Print of a post-16th century Ming Dynasty junk ship. This is a hybrid Chinese ship, it showed influence of western ships such as bowsprit, bowsprit sail, and topsail. The print itself is made after the year 17... More
A five-masted ship in Juan Vespucci map of 1526
A five-masted ship in Juan Vespucci map, likely an attempt to depict a five-masted Javanese junk (jong) in Indian ocean, 1526. Bahasa Indonesia: Sebuah kapal bertiang lima di peta Juan Vespucci, kemungkinan m... More
A four-masted jong being chased by Portuguese vessel, in Nuño García d...
A four-masted jong (Javanese junk) being chased by a Portuguese vessel, in Nuño García de Toreno’s map of 1522. This scene likely depict a junk encountered near Polvoreira (likely Pulau Berhala, 160 miles from... More
The Spanish Armada Leaving the port of Ferrol by Sir Oswald W. Brierly...
This picture by Sir Oswald W. Brierly captures in a very Victorian and romantic way the very moment when the Spanish Armada sets sail to Britain, leaving the safety of the well gathered port of El Ferrol in Nor... More
The-loss-of-the-revenge-37YTB
Loss of the Revenge by Oswald Walters Brierly
Situs civitatis Bantam et Navium Insulae Iauae delineatio
View of the Bantam city and sketch of ships from Java island. Bantam here refers to the city of Banten, now it is a name of a province in Indonesia. The ships from Java are the javanese jong ships. Bahasa Indo... More
Four Kind of Ships which Bantenese Use de Bry
De Bry, Johann Theodor, (1560-1623) and Johann Israel de Bry (1565-1609). Part III, Plate 28, Shown are Four Kinds of Ships Which the Bantenese Use. From the "Little Voyages"ASIAN VESSELS IN BANTAMThe illustr... More
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten Ship of China and Java
This image depicts a junk, with a seaside town in the background. This is an early portrayal of the kind of vessel that was traditionally the lifeblood of commerce throughout the sheltered seas of China and So... More
Japanese-Tokugawa-Ship-Ataka-Maru - Public domain map
Japanese Tokugawa warship called Ataka Maru (from mifune map). It is an Atakebune ship. 日本語: 御船図（安宅丸） Deutsch: Ein japanisches Atakebune-Küstenkriegsschiff aus dem 16. Jahrhundert
Nanbansen2. 16th century Japan. Public domain image.
Public domain photograph Japanese art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Battle of Lepanto 1571 mg 0314
Battle of Lepanto in 1571 Public domain scan of 16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lybska Svan. Warship photograph collection
Reconstruction of "Lybska Svan". Swedish Warship 1522-1525. 2016: Hägg does not name this ship as Lybska Svan but as "a warship from the days of Gustav Vasa, 1522".
A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou - his voyages to the St...
Identifier: memoirofjacquesc00cart (find matches) Title: A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annota... More
Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of th...
Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches) Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance Year: 1870 (1870s) Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 Subjects: Middle ... More