Talk:Galleon
From Academic Kids
I refer to the second paragraph in the article and as far as I know Galleons were developed after the introduction of carvel hull building design. I dont know af any clinker-built galleon.
"As the ships' size increased in the 15th Century, the clinkerbuilt hull was found to be unsuitable as it wasn't tight enough -- the largest clinker built ship, the English Grace Dieu (1418) was a failure, and signalled the end of the building method in favour of the carvel-built hull." http://www.greatgridlock.net/Sqrigg/two-mast.html
Mem
Thanks for clearing that up.
Gurnard (the guy who wrote the original article)
