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“a Portuguese carrack” — Presumably “the San Salvator in which the Archbishop and Linschoten sailed [in 1583]; all the ships in the fleet were between fourteen and sixteen hundred tons, therefore very large for the period. Linschoten states that two of the other vessels were newly built so the San Salvator may have dated from the 1570s or 1560s or even earlier; she has four masts with a characteristic enormous sail at the mainmast and lateen sail at the bonaventure mizzen; like all ships destined for the East Indian trade, well armed with two banks of four guns and possibly two at the stern; curved stem and rounded bow and broad-beamed hull; possibly a quarter gallery; fore and aft castles; top castles on three of the masts—in those on the mainmast and the mizzen spears stacked against an adversary; the flag, a cross on a white ground, may be that of the wealthy military order of San Salvator, whose members had originally been engaged in expelling the Moors from Aragon. No source has been found for this fine representation; possibly it was adapted from drawings of the huge carracks shown in the Portuguese rutter of João de Castro, which had belonged to Raleigh; again Hakluyt or Petruccio Ubaldini, who wrote the account of the Spanish Armada and had many ties with Wolfe, might have supplied a sketch. Certainly Rogers has understood the intricate design of body and superstructure, sails and rigging.” (Corbett and Lightbown, The Comely Frontispiece, 88) ::