Editing Carrack (section)

== Famous carracks ==
* [[Santa María (ship)|''Santa María'']], in which [[Christopher Columbus]] made his first voyage to America in 1492.
* [[Gribshunden]], flagship of the Danish-Norwegian King Hans, built in the Low Countries 1485 and served the Danish-Norwegian crown until sinking in June 1495.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Foley |first=Brendan |date=2024-01-31 |title=Interim Report on Gribshunden (1495) Excavations: 2019–2021 |journal=Acta Archaeologica |volume=94 |issue=1 |pages=132–145 |doi=10.1163/16000390-09401052 |issn=0065-101X|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hansson |first1=Anton |last2=Linderson |first2=Hans |last3=Foley |first3=Brendan |date=August 2021 |title=The Danish royal flagship gribshunden – Dendrochronology on a late medieval carvel sunk in the Baltic Sea |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125861 |journal=Dendrochronologia |volume=68 |pages=125861 |doi=10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125861 |bibcode=2021Dendr..6825861H |issn=1125-7865}}</ref>
* [[São Gabriel (ship)|''São Gabriel'']], flagship of [[Vasco da Gama]], in the 1497 Portuguese expedition from Europe to India by circumnavigating Africa.
* ''[[Flor de la Mar|Flor do Mar]]'' or ''Flor de la Mar'', as it was called, served over nine years in the [[Indian Ocean]], sinking in 1512 with [[Afonso de Albuquerque]] after the [[Capture of Malacca (1511)|conquest of Malacca]] with a huge booty, making it one of the legendary lost treasures.
* [[Victoria (ship)|''Victoria'']], the first ship in history to circumnavigate the globe (1519 to 1522), and the only survivor of [[Armada de Molucca|Magellan's expedition]] for Spain.
* ''[[La Dauphine]]'', [[Giovanni da Verrazzano|Verrazzano]]'s ship to explore the Atlantic coast of North America in 1524.
* ''[[Grande Hermine]]'', in which [[Jacques Cartier]] first navigated the [[Saint Lawrence River]] in 1535. The first European ship to sail on this river past the Gulf.
* ''Santo António'', or ''St. Anthony'', the personal property of King [[John III of Portugal]], wrecked off [[Gunwalloe]] Bay in 1527, the salvage of whose cargo almost led to a war between England and Portugal.
* ''[[Great Michael]]'', a Scottish ship, at one time the largest in Europe.
* ''[[Mary Rose]]'', ''[[Henri Grâce à Dieu]]'' and ''[[Peter Pomegranate]]'', built during the reign of King [[Henry VIII|Henry VIII of England]] — English military carracks like these were often called [[great ship]]s.
* ''[[Grace Dieu (ship)|Grace Dieu]]'', commissioned by King [[Henry V of England]]. One of the largest ships in the world at the time.
* ''[[Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai]]'', a war ship built in [[Portuguese India|India]] by the Portuguese
* ''[[Santa Anna (1522 ship)|Santa Anna]]'', a particularly modern design commissioned by the [[Knights Hospitaller]] in 1522 and sometimes hailed as the first armoured ship.
* ''[[Jesus of Lübeck]]'', chartered to a group of merchants in 1563 by Queen [[Elizabeth I|Elizabeth I of England]]. ''Jesus of Lübeck'' became involved in the Atlantic slave trade under [[John Hawkins (naval commander)|John Hawkins]].
* ''[[Madre de Deus]]'', built in Lisbon during 1589, she was one of the world's largest ships. She was [[Battle of Flores (1592)|captured by the English]] off [[Flores Island (Azores)|Flores Island]] in 1592 with an enormously valuable cargo from the [[East Indies]] that is still considered the second-largest treasure ever captured. 
* ''[[Cinco Chagas]]'', presumed to have been the largest and richest ship to ever sail to and from the Indies until it exploded and sank at the [[action of Faial]] in 1594. 
* [[Santa Catarina (ship)|''Santa Catarina'']], Portuguese carrack which was seized by the [[Dutch East India Company]] off [[Singapore]] in 1603.
* ''[[Nossa Senhora da Graça incident|Nossa Senhora da Graça]]'', Portuguese carrack sunk in a Japanese attack near Nagasaki in 1610
* ''[[Peter von Danzig (ship)|Peter von Danzig]]'', ship of the [[Hanseatic League]] in 1460s–1470s.
*''La Gran Carracca'', the ship of the [[Knights Hospitaller|Order of St. John]] during their rule over [[Malta]].<ref name="cassar">{{cite journal|last1=Cassar Pullicino|first1=Joseph|title=The Order of St. John in Maltese folk-memory|journal=Scientia|date=October–December 1949|volume=15|issue=4|page=174|url=http://melitensiawth.com/incoming/Index/Scientia%20(Malta)/Scientia.%2015(1949)4(Oct.-Dec.)/01.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417173522/http://melitensiawth.com/incoming/Index/Scientia%20%28Malta%29/Scientia.%2015%281949%294%28Oct.-Dec.%29/01.pdf|archive-date=17 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''[[Bom Jesus (ship)|Bom Jesus]]'', a Portuguese ship that disappeared in 1533 after sailing from Lisbon. The well preserved shipwreck was discovered in 2008 on the coast of Namibia, along with its cargo of assorted copper ingots, elephant ivory and over 2000 gold and silver coins.