Medieval shipbuilding

[happyshopper]

Hi Socal - saw you were looking for info on medieval shipbuilding and thought it looked really interesting, so here are a few links that may be useful:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba61/feat2.shtml - focuses on Britain

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi....x?cookieSet=1 - report on Indian ship remains

http://www.maryrose.org/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7038519.stm - both about the Mary Rose

http://www.huts.gr/modules.php?name=...rder=1&thold=0 - Mediterranean

http://www.ipa.min-cultura.pt/pubs/TA/folder/18 - loads of lectures on ancient/medieval shipbuilding

http://www.plimsoll.org/diversityofs...es/default.asp - several articles

[Emperor Basil]

Yeah and about the idea of having only certain regions that produce ships. For the Byzantine/Seljuk area I noticed that for the Comneni period the Peloponese/Hellas region wasn't used as a recruiting ground for the army so it's likely that it was used for the navy. The Greek islands certainly were. Also Smyrna should produce ships because that's just what the Emir of Smyrna did in the 1080s and 1090s.
Egypt of course should have good ship building facilities as their navy was famous, and the crusaders, who didn't have a navy, occasionally tried to capture Egypt for its navy.

[Socal_infidel]

This looks look super-helpful. I'll be sure to check them out once I get to that part of PDER 2.0

[HannibalExMachina]

some first suggestions

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