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{{Short description|Ship used for both fishing and trading}}
{{About|the ship type|the cloth type|Tartan}}
[[File:Tartane.gif|thumb|right|A 19th-century engraving of a tartane.]]
[[File:F-E Paris Tartana 1.jpg|thumb|Diagram of a tartana, 1879]]
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]].

==References==
{{Commons category|Tartanes}}
{{Wiktionary|tartane|tartan}}

*{{cite book|author=[[Charles Annandale]]|title=[[The Imperial Dictionary]]|edition=new|location=London|publisher=Blackie & Son|year=1889|volume=4|page=311}}
*{{cite book|author=Rupert Sargent Holland|title=Historic Ships|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c1UbZ9ddkLQC&pg=PA382|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|date=2004|page=382|isbn=978-1-4179-4299-2}}
*{{cite book|author=Balthazard Marie Émérigon|author2=Samuel Meredith|title=A Treatise on Insurances|url=https://archive.org/details/atreatiseoninsu00meregoog/page/n399/mode/1up|pages=330–331}}

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[[Category:Merchant sailing ship types]]

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