Wooden Tall Ships

Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal set up a college at Sagres in the early fifteenth century to study new ways to explore the seas. Here henry the navigator brought together all the brightest minds to design a ship especially built for ocean exploration. Their greatest achievement in ship design was the caravel. It was […]

I watched Shipwreck Detectives on the ABC tonight on TV. Jeremy Green was off the Turkish Coast near Hodrum. They had to find a shipwreck from the ancient world so that they could get funding. They were in the same area as that of the sea journeys in the classical era. The area was the […]

The texts that have expounded the theory that the Portuguese had discovered Australia before the Spanish and well before Captain Cook are as follows:
In 1694 JOhn Stevens published his translations of the work by Faria y Sousa , entitled “Asia Portuguesa”. This book introduced the british people for the first time to the history of […]

There have been many researchers that have been gathering evidence for years that Columbus did not Discover America.
They say that The Scandinavians discovered and settled at Greenland, Baffin Island and Vinland. These assertions have some very solid historical bases. Other voyages have been documented by Irishmen such as Saint Brendan, the Welsh led by Madoc, […]

I have just read “An element of Chance” by David Donachie. It is a right rollicking tale of adventure at sea in the seventeen nineties.  Harry Ludlow is the captain of a private ship that has his crew pressed by a greedy avaricious Navy Captain.
Harry Ludlow sails to the West Indies to get his men […]

This is my blog for my site woodentallships.com.
I will be posting miscellaneous thoughts and news about events that happen or books that I am reading. There will be less structure in this section and will be a bilge for my ramblings. At the moment I am about to  read about the secret  discoveries of Australia by […]