It was a type of vessel known as a caravel, and no one knows exactly what they looked like or how they were built. From Wordnik.com. [Books: Columbus's Last Voyage] Reference
They developed the "caravel", a small, lightweight ship with three lateen-sailed masts that could hold much more cargo than previous ships. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
And Columbus discovered America in a caravel and —. From Wordnik.com. [The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, the Shoe King's Son] Reference
If he did, Kemal would blow the last caravel to bits. From Wordnik.com. [Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus]
I saw an exact reproduction of the caravel Santa María. From Wordnik.com. [Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:] Reference
The admiral and her men took refuge on board the caravel. From Wordnik.com. [MacMillan's Reading Books Book V] Reference
"Or do you want to lose your caravel here in these waters?". From Wordnik.com. [Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus]
Then he got out the caravel and spent a happy hour shipbuilding. From Wordnik.com. [In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs] Reference
But in the end, what use is a caravel lying at anchor in the shipyard?. From Wordnik.com. [The Networking Instinct] Reference
The battered caravel stretched to five times the length of the little cog. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
Embarking in her, they next fell in with a caravel, which they also captured. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
Columbus, they rowed off to the other caravel, about half a league to windward. From Wordnik.com. [MacMillan's Reading Books Book V] Reference
"And if you could turn the wind, would you have it blow straight at the caravel?". From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
Presently, settling down, he wrote to London for the kit to make a model caravel. From Wordnik.com. [In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs] Reference
Ojeda and several others, while the remainder barely succeeded in reaching the caravel. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
Fowler hauled on the tiller, bringing his ship smartly around the stern of the caravel. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
The captain had no time to answer, for the bow of the great caravel was already slipping past. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
A pictograph from the José Maria Cave in the Dominican Republic may represent a Spanish caravel. From Wordnik.com. [Images of Conquest] Reference
Ruha glanced over the starboard side and saw the caravel topping the moonlit crest of a rolling sea dune. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
Having torn the somercastle completely off the caravel, the dragon now crouched on the stern of the ship. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
Ruha pulled the pebbles from her pocket and pivoted around to keep her gaze fixed on the looming caravel. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
As they worked, the caravel continued to lumber past, taking up the rescue line's slack at an alarming pace. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
The lumberers of the St. John tell, with bated breath, of an antique French caravel, which sails up the Carleton. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
Ruha raised her hands toward the distant caravel, which now lay hidden behind another black and looming water dune. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
In the meantime the master had reached the caravel, and made known the perilous state in which he had left the vessel. From Wordnik.com. [MacMillan's Reading Books Book V] Reference
A great dune of wind-driven sea rose up before Ruha robbing her eyes of the faraway caravel and the night-black dragon. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
The little cog completed her turn, then a tremendous boom filled the air when she slammed hulls with the great caravel. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
The first shaft sailed high over the wales of the devastated caravel and passed through one of the wyrm's flapping wings. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
The little cog crested the top and raced down the other side, then sped, pitching and crashing, toward the distant caravel. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
A larcenous gleam filled the half-orc's eyes, and he glanced toward the bobbing lanterns atop the stern of the departing caravel. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
Ruha flung her spell at the distant caravel and saw a dazzling stream of blue-sparkling wind shoot from the side of her own vessel. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
They brought in with them a Spanish caravel of Seville, which he had taken the day before, athwart of that place; being a caravel of. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Francis Drake Revived] Reference
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