Martigana - tarditional Greek sailing ship
by Panagiotis Mastrantonis
Title
Martigana - tarditional Greek sailing ship
Artist
Panagiotis Mastrantonis
Medium
Drawing - Drawing - Chinese Ink On Fabriano Paper
Description
Martingana (or Martigo) was a medium-sized commercial sailing ship built on most of the main Greek shipbuilding islands during the second half of the 18th century, with a widespread use throughout the Mediterranean, from the East Aegean to the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic seas (with some rigging modifications).
It was also used as a military vessel during the Greek Revolution of 1821. The first cruiser ship of the island of Samos was the Martigo of captain Manolis Hadzigeorgiou, named “Panagia” (“Virgin Mary”) and converted from a commercial ship to a cruiser, following the intervention of Dimitris Themelis, the General Commissioner of the “Filiki Eteria”*.
*“Society of Friends”, was a secret 19th century organization whose purpose was to overthrow the Ottoman rule of Greece and establish an independent Greek state.
Artwork #15 from the collection of miniatures "The evolution of the Greek sailing vessels from the 16th to the 19th century".
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