Medieval ships

ship type

Anglo-Norman vessel

thumb|350px|''The Doge on the Bucintoro near the Riva di Sant'Elena (painting)|The Doge on the Bucintoro near the Riva di Sant'Elena (c. 1766–70) by [[Francesco Guardi]] thumb|350px|An anonymous Portrait miniature|miniature, Sbarco dal Bucintoro del doge Sebastiano Ziani al Convento della Carità (The Doge [[Sebastiano Ziani Disembarking from the Bucentaur for the Convent of Charity'', 16th century)]]

10th century Norwegian longship

boat type

pair of ship burials, found on Saare County, Estonia

european vessels from the Middle Ages

340px|right|thumb|A carving of a birlinn from a sixteenth-century tombstone in MacDufie's Chapel, Oronsay, as engraved in 1772. The birlinn () or West Highland galley was a wooden vessel propelled by sail and oar, used extensively in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland from the Middle Ages on. Variants of the name in English and Lowland Scots include "berlin" and "birling". The Gaelic term may derive from the Norse byrðingr (ship of boards), a type of cargo vessel. It has been suggested that a local design lineage might also be traceable to vessels similar to the Broighter-type boat (f