Naval station/ The History of Ships

Alexander Gomes

What is a naval station?

A naval station is a naval military base, where warships and mostly naval ships are
relocated when they have no mission at the sea to go, and has many facilities to put
supplements, docking and for levels of ship repairment.
Fun fact: the biggest naval station is the Naval Station Norfolk with 8.368
kilometres!

History of Ships: The first signal of a ship

The first and earliest evidence of a ship, is found in Egypt, by the 4th millennium
BCE. Egypt was (at that time) very narrowly aligned with the Nile, and it served as a
navigable surface for transport below the First Cataract. There are many
representations of Egyptian boats which used to carry obelisks on the Nile from
Upper Egypt, that were 100 metres longer than any warship constructed in the era of
wooden ships.
Egyptian boats were the introduction of sails and oars because they were very
confined to the Nile and had to depend on winds on narrow river channels.
It became true of most navigation when the Egyptians began search onto the waters
of the Mediterranean and the Red seas. Most Nile boats (in the early times) had a
single square sail and mostly one level of oarsmen. Quickly, they made more levels
which came of good use; however, it became more difficult to manoeuvre very long
boats in the sea.
Early sea navigation
The start and rise of sea navigation began when the Mediterranean trading vessel,
the Venetian buss (full-bodied, rounded two-masted ship), passed through the Strait
of Gibraltar. By the time of Richard, the I of England (reign time 1189- 1199), which
his familiarity with the Mediterranean shipping evolved form his participation in the
Crusades, Mediterranean navigation had granted itself two directions: a rowed
fighting ship and a sail-propelled trader’s vessel. From Richard’s expeditions, the
value of the forecastle and aftercastle—giving enclosed deck houses and a bow of
great capacity—was learned, and this style became the basic of English ocean
trading.
The art of navigation was improving at the same time. The compass was made at the
beginning of the 14th century, but it first took long time to understand how to use it
very effectively.
And concluding, this is how maritime history came a long way, by sailboats to naval
stations.