Old Time Sailing Ship coloring page

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Today's new drawing is of an Old Time Sailing Ship.

Old Time Sailing Ship

The age of wooden sailing ships actually went on for thousands of years.  The Egyptian culture has the first record of sailing ships.  That dates to around 4000 BC.  The Polynesians appear to have begun sailing about 1000 BC.  The Greeks and Romans also sailed.  The Chinese were sailing around 200 AD.  

Then there is the mystery of the Australian Aborigines.  They came to Australia in one group around 50,000 - 70,000 years ago.  And it appears that they must have come over on boats or some kind of sailing vessels... possibly from Africa.    

THIS sailing ship is from the "Age of Sail," which was roughly between 1470 to 1860.  This ship is also a small type of armed ship, meaning it has cannons, not armor.  It is a small frigate or a sloop or a corvette.  These were small ships with fast square-rigged sails.  They were used for the escort of unarmed ships and for patrol or scouting.  This ship has 14 guns (or cannons) on the main deck with 6 additional guns on the back or poop deck.  (I did not make that up.)  The poop deck has two guns or cannons on each side and two guns facing back on the stern.  These poop deck cannons are smaller than the cannon on the main deck.  In comparison, a Man O War ship had 124 cannons on three decks. 

NOTE:  To get to the printable version of this just click on the button that says "Vehicles & Military Vehicles," then scroll to the bottom of the list of vehicle drawings.  Technically a ship IS a vehicle.