History:

the definition "Cocca Anseatica" came from the union between the following two words:

 

COCCA : It is the name given in the XII century to a vessel  with the same better nautical characteristics of the ones of the medieval ship with round hull;

ANSEATICA: this name comes from the german word " Hansa" that means "associations" .This word was given to the cities of the North Europe Amburgo and Lubecca that were firstly joined in economical alliance in order to protect their earthly and especially maritime trades from the attacks of the english , dutch and flemish  "Barons" and corsairs.

Other cities like Tallin, Kiel, Frankfurt and Brema  joined later on this association that has contributed to the development of the army mercantile ship named "Cocca Anseatica".

 

The Cocca Anseatica was 30 meters overall long , had  20 meter lenght on the water line and a sail area of ca 186 mq. The net burthen was 130 ton.

The crew was made of 20 or 30 men . Le sails were coloured  with a vegetal dyein order to avoid from wetting . The colours of the sails were dark red,or with vertical white and red stripes or white and green or completely black.

 The Cocca represented in our model is the one of 1470 ca, had an overall lenght of 34 meters, 25 meters lenght on the water line , draught of 2.5 meters and a sail area of 265 mq.

It was splitted on the 3 masts main , mizzen and fore. The net burthen was gone up to 400 ton. The crew was of 50 men and the sails were of a dark red with rope colour sewings.