hull shapesomething which cannot be discerned in contemporary illustrations.

The terminological inconsistency of Basque-built ships continues into the present day. Archival research on the Red Bay wreck 24M has identified, with reasonable confidence, this ship to have been San Juan of Pasajes. She is described 26 times in six different contemporary documents with at least three different authors as a nao, and not once as a galeón. However, published