WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Caravels had a typical length-to-beam ratio of 3.5:1 with a shallow draught. It was also highly manoeuvrable and fast. All of these characteristics made the caravel ideal for exploring unfamiliar waters and coastal shallows where larger ships might easily have become stranded on sandbanks or damaged by rocks.

Detailed explanation-2: -Description. Typically 60 to 70 feet (18 to 21 meters) long at the keel and 20 feet (6.1 meters) wide, caravels usually had two or three masts and no oars. A caravel’s full deck was about 10 feet (3 meters) above the surface of the water, but it also usually had a small forecastle and sterncastle.

Detailed explanation-3: -A caravel was a European ship with triangular sails used from the 15th to 17th centuries. Two of Christopher Columbus’s ships, Niña and the Pinta, were caravels.

Detailed explanation-4: -: any of several sailing ships. specifically : a small 15th and 16th century ship that has broad bows, high narrow poop, and usually three masts with lateen or both square and lateen sails.