| Features | Ship Type |
| Standard vessel for trade and exploration in mid-16th century Europe, Spanish origin | |
| Ship armed with cannon, like a galley, but propelled mainly by sail | |
| Common whaling vessel with two masts with square rigged sails | |
| Long, fast ship with three or four masts used after the Napoleonic Wars in trade | |
| Wooden ships of composite construction sheathed in thick iron plates | |
| Greek vessel with three rows of oars on each side of Phoenician origin | |
| Traditional Arab sailing vessel with one or more lateen sails | |
| Largest of the Viking vessels and used as war-ships | |
| | Features | Ship Type |
| Three-masted vessel adaptable to either lateen or square rigged sails, used by Columbus | |
| Greek sailing vessel with single square sail | |
| Large, three- or four-masted multi-decked sailing vessel used by European nations during the Age of Exploration | |
| Small, maneuverable warship used for coastal patrol | |
| Ships with two or more masts, both with fore- and aft-sails | |
| Three-masted square-rigged warship with two full decks | |
| Square-rigged, two masted warship | |
| Vessel primarily used by the Barbary Corsairs with three lateen-rigged masts | |
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