Balinger

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In the late Middle Ages, a Balinger was a seaworthy ship of different sizes and features.

Balingers are mentioned in English and Hanseatic sources. In the Hanseatic document books , the municipal protocols (e.g. Lübeck , Hamburg ) and the Hanseatic trials , crew strengths of 6 to 60 men are mentioned and sails can be assumed. In 1474 Hamburg sold a Balinger to a private citizen for 156 pounds. According to English sources, the vehicles look different. Then there are escort vehicles for the large warships. They have 30 to 48 oars and 1418 are called 80 ts water displacement. A fort , a bowsprit , a mast with a square sail are mentioned. Other vehicles already have a mizzen . Later, two-masted sails with a square sail on the main mast and a mizzen appear to have been established, although the oars were retained. However, little is known about the external appearance and differences to other types of ship (barge, barcke, holk ) are difficult to determine. This type of ship was used as a pirate and warship.

The origin of the name is unclear. Latin balaena and French baleine means whale , but apart from the similarity of the name, no connection can be found.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Where Howard in Sailing Warships , page 29, interprets them as a three-master.

See also

literature

  • Andreas Kammler: Up Eventur. Investigations on privateer shipping from 1471 to 1512, mainly based on Hamburg and Lübeck sources. Scripta-Mercaturae-Verlag, St. Katharinen 2005, ISBN 3-89590-156-3 , ( Material tradition and history 37), (At the same time: Siegen, Univ., Diss., 2004).
  • Ian Friel: The good ship. Ship, shipbuilding and technology in England 1200-1520. British Museum Press, London 1995, ISBN 0-7141-0574-0 .
  • Arthur Nelson: The Tudor Navy. The ships, men and organization 1485-1603. Conway Maritime Press, London 2001, ISBN 0-85177-785-6 .
  • Frank Howard: Sailing warships. 1400-1860. 2nd Edition. Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1989, ISBN 3-7637-5239-0 .