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26 maj 2023 · This map plots the colonial shipping lanes used by the British, the French, the Spanish, and the Dutch in the 18th and 19th centuries.
I recently stumbled upon a fascinating dataset which contains digitised information from the log books of ships (mostly from Britain, France, Spain and The Netherlands) sailing between 1750 and 1850.
A significant component of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center's pre-20th-century cartographic holdings is an extensive collection of nautical charts and atlases pertaining to the world and particularly North America.
2 paź 2024 · It was in the 17th century that the Dutch, the French, and the English began trying to fill out the map of the known oceans. Islands and coastlines were added to sailing charts almost on an annual basis.
Category:17th-century ships. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 17th-century ships. This category is for ships launched in the 17th century.
The construction of early seventeenth-century English ships could vary because shipwrights at the time struggled to identify and codify the best designs. Two ships famous in Atlantic history, the Susan Constant and the Sea Venture, provide useful examples of ship design early in the century.
7 paź 2015 · During the 18th and 19th centuries, the British, French, Spanish, and Dutch empires held control over global trade via their colonial shipping routes. During that period, the four nations frequently sailed not only across the Atlantic Ocean but also across the Pacific and Indian Ocean.
