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The Coca de Mataró

The Coca de Mataró. Museum of the History of Catalonia. Photo by Pep Parer.

The Coca de Mataró. Museum of the History of Catalonia. Photo by Pep Parer.

The model ship known as the Coca de Mataró is a fishermen's ex-voto dating from the 15th century that was found in a hermitage in the Maresme area and is currently in the Prins Hendrik Museum of Rotterdam. It is a scale model of a real ship and the only reliable three-dimensional representation of a merchant ship from the second half of the 15th century.


Several features lead us to believe it could have been between 16 and 22 metres long and had a loading capacity of between 50 and 150 tons. Its rounded forms and wide bottom mean that it was a very stable ship designed for slow voyages.

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