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A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Maritime trade. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 May 26#Maritime trade until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. -- Tamzin (she/they, no pref.) | o toki tawa mi. 22:40, 26 May 2021 (UTC) reply

The Age of Navigation section features several instances of incorrect comma usage and sentence fragments. I'm shocked these have lasted almost 3 years with nobody noticing/fixing them. I'll fix a few but this section needs attention. 98.37.77.41 ( talk) 00:11, 21 February 2022 (UTC) reply

History of ship indestery 42.104.135.59 ( talk) 07:55, 21 October 2022 (UTC) reply

The Navigation section includes a mention of a south-pointing chariot. This would not work on a ship (to keep pointing south while the ship rotates). Can anyone explain relevance of this device to maritime navigation? Otherwise I think it should be removed from this article. FrankSier ( talk) 16:22, 7 March 2024 (UTC): reply

I have just found that the same point was made back in 2018 - /info/en/?search=Talk:Maritime_history/Archives/2018 - with no response, so I have deleted the mention of the device. FrankSier ( talk) 17:28, 7 March 2024 (UTC) reply

A three sentences in the article make a number of claims about portolan charts, including:

• "first type of map that labeled North at the top",
• "drawn proportionate to size",
• "Landmarks were drawn in great detail."

These might come from the book referenced, but I cannot check that, and I cannot find anything else to support these claims, including the article Portolan chart. The claims seem dubious to me, but I cannot be definite. FrankSier ( talk) 17:04, 7 March 2024 (UTC) reply