Ship Terminology: What is the 4 man ship?

lol man you crazy

@revanjstone Its the good kind of crazy right? I also think it's similar to a Pinnace or a fluyt (similar to flute) but both have beak heads.

@cheatingpirate As someone else who has interests that no one else cares about, I feel for you cpirate haha. Your post seems well informed bravo!

@revanjstone Well this was more of a fun analogy. Just wait until I dive into the sloop and figure out what the heck that ship is supposed to be 0_0

@cheatingpirate haha and the brig. tell me about the brig thats coming with your expertise. what should the bottom deck be like? is it fast? bad at turning? seems long to me? why does the top deck look so flat? how does the helmsman see?

these are the burning questions! lol not what ships have already been out for in some ways over a year haha

@longingfern4785 When I mean "of the time" I mean between 1500 and 1700. And galleon isn't just for treasure ships. The mayflower, Andalucia, San Salvador, Duyfken, golden hind, and Half moon are all galleons. All of them are very similar in design too. Tall fore and aft castles, a beak, 3 decks usually and not counting the quarter and p**p decks.

@revanjstone looking at how the new Brigantine is, it's generally a flat hull, 2 masts, and they WERE much faster than a galleon. Probably more maneuverable too, which those are why pirates loved them. I haven't seen the Brigantine just yet thigh I am looking forward to it

@cheatingpirate well the main thing i have in mind when looking at SoT is that its a diferent world. A diferent universe. So similarities to the real world exist but from world to world, dimension to dimension, things are diferent.
A 4 man galleon would be impossible in our world and pirates would almost never do irl what we do in game. If we are so into terminology we are not even close of being pirates.
Lets accept this and play along.

@longingfern4785 There's multiple differences between the in game galleon and any irl galleon. The galleon we have has 2 decks under the main deck, so 3 decks total. Smaller galleons have 3 decks total, bigger galleons at 4. Also galleons have quarter decks and p**p decks, while the in game galleon only has a quarter deck. Galleons also have a fore castle one can go inside, while there isn't a fore castle on the in game galleon. And again, the in game galleon has no beak, while every other galleon irl had a beak.

Again, the in game galleon is more similar to the Dutch Flute

@mintmage513321 I mean, that is a valid argument, but again this is all in good fun.

@cheatingpirate WHO IS REALLY HAVING FUN HERE!!!????????? LOL

@longingfern4785 hahhh sovereign of the seas. If you didn't know that's my favorite ship of all time. And sadly there IS a fore castle on that ship. Dont beleive me? Here. https://www.arrowmodels.com/mantua-sovereign-of-the-seas-1-78-scale-kit-787
If yoy dont believe me still, look at Van de Velde's painting of it and plenty of ships like it. Most galleons of the time had a small forecastle with one deck.

But yeah I generally agree with you, not every galleon looks the same. How ever all of then share the same traits. Including fore castles, which were reduced in size but not completely removed. I think it wasn't until the mid 1700s that the forecastle was removed from most ships. Also there are plenty of other English galleons they could look at, like the replica of Golden Hind for example, the Mary Rose museum tho that's technically a carrack, and they could have seen other ships too like Andalucia (probably what inspired in game galleon), duyfken, Susan constant, hms revenge, Batavia, Lenox, San Salvador, you get the picture

Also the galleon in game doesn't have a beak head. It has a prow. But again we could see one eventually bc there seems to be a proper galleon in the art book.