All Early Modern Sailing Warships

Warships of the age of sail, including galleons, frigates, ships of the line and oared war galleys. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as a warship or type of warship of the sailing era. It excludes steam and armored warships of the nineteenth century and later. Sailing warships changed in form from the oared galley through the carrack-descended galleon to the line-of-battle ships that fought in fleets of broadside gunnery, and the frigate scouted and raided beside them.