Tartane

This article is about the ship type. For the cloth type, see Tartan.

A tartane (also tartan, tartana) was a small ship used both as a fishing ship and for coastal trading in the Mediterranean. They were in use for over 300 years until the late 19th century. A tartane had a single mast on which was rigged a large lateen sail, and with a bowsprit and fore-sail. When the wind was aft a square sail was generally hoisted like a cross jack.

A 19th-century engraving of a tartane.

Diagram of a tartana, 1879

References

• Charles Annandale (1889). The Imperial Dictionary. Vol. 4 (new ed.). London: Blackie & Son. p. 311.
• Rupert Sargent Holland (2004). Historic Ships. Kessinger Publishing. p. 382. ISBN 978-1-4179-4299-2.
• Balthazard Marie Émérigon; Samuel Meredith. A Treatise on Insurances. pp. 330–331.