17th-century ships

thumb|right|300px|The Portuguese carrack Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai and other ships, painting by [[Joachim Patinir. The voyage of Infanta Beatriz, second daughter of King Manuel of Portugal, to Villefranche for her marriage to Charles III, Duke of Savoy, in 1521.]] thumb| painting of a large carrack attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder

thumb|right|Dutch fluyt, by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) A fluÿt, or simply fluyt (archaic Dutch: fluijt "flute"; ), is a Dutch type of sailing vessel originally designed by the shipwrights of Hoorn as a dedicated cargo vessel. Originating in the Dutch Republic in the 16th century, the vessel was designed to facilitate transoceanic delivery with the maximum of space and crew efficiency. Unlike rivals, it was not built for conversion in wartime to a warship, so it was simpler and cheaper to build and carried twice the cargo, and could be handled by a smaller crew. Construction by specialized s

type of ship in use in the 16th and 17th centuries

A polacca (or polacre) is a type of seventeenth- to nineteenth-century sailing vessel.

thumb|300x300px|Depiction of a three-masted Javanese jong in Banten, by Hieronymus Megiser, 1610

technological development due to wars

The flyboat (also spelled fly-boat or fly boat) was a European light vessel of Dutch origin developed primarily as a mercantile cargo carrier, although many served as warships in an auxiliary role because of their agility. These vessels could displace between 70 and 200 tons, and were used in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The name was subsequently applied to a number of disparate vessels which achieved high speeds or endurance. At the beginning of the 17th century, they were replaced by the fluyt, which in England was also known as a fly-boat.