The Venetian buss was rapidly supplanted by another Venetian ship the cog.

Venetian merchant ships. It created an institutional basis for commercial capitalism made major progress in shipping technology and helped transfer Asian and Egyptian technology in cane sugar production and processing silk textiles glassblowing and jewellery. The Venetian Republic Venice played a major role in reopening the Mediterranean economy to West European commerce and developing links with Northern Europe. Marco Polos Travels Along the Silk Road Marco Polo in Venice Marco Polo 1254-1324 was a Venetian merchant believed to have journeyed across Asia at.

N 57 Polacca Ship Author. Although the Venetians claimed that the Adriatic Sea was their own sea foreign or piratical ships still sailed these waters and menaced Venetian merchant ships in the first half of the thirteenth century. Gold per ship 1000 3 Nobleman 700 Venetian merchant fleet 3 ship.

Marco Polo was one hardworking shrewd merchant. If all goes well it should soon arrive in Cartagena. He was a Venetian whose wide travels to various parts of Asia mainly have been kept to date in documented means.

Gold per ship 500 2 Patrician 400 Venetian merchant fleet 2 ship. As ship-building was too costly an undertaking for merchants vessels were built in the state-owned Arsenale and contracted to private groups of merchants through a public auction. Its ships were manned by paid freemen of Venice not slaves or mercenaries and debtors could pay off their obligations by serving as rowers.

A buss of 240 tons with lateen sails was required by maritime statutes of Venice to be manned by a crew of 50 sailors. The crew of a square-sailed cog of the same size was only 20 sailors. Gandula s Nau reached the quay at the port of Ajaccio.

Check Todays Featured Rates At The Venetian Casino Las Vegas. Others were returning to Venice to be dismissed or sent elsewhere. Photo courtesy of Shakespeare Tavern.