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1460 CE: The Santa Maria is launched in Pontevedra in Galicia, northern Spain. It will be Christopher Columbus' flagship when he sails to the Americas in 1492.
1511 CE: The English carrack warship the Mary Rose
is launched in Portsmouth.
1519 CE: The carrack Victoria is launched in Gipzkoa in Spain. It will be the only ship of Ferdinand Magellan's fleet to circumnavigate the globe.
1545 CE: Henry VIII of England's vice-flagship the carrack Mary Rose sinks in the Solent.
1592 CE: A fleet of English ships funded by Sir Walter Raleigh captures the Portuguese treasure ship, the carrack Madre de Deus.