Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Portuguese venturers built longer thinner ships and added Egyptian lateen sails to the front which allowed the ships to sail almost into the wind, an essential condition for sailing round the bulge of west Africa into the Bight of Biafra. The Portuguese could (and later did) get round the Cape of Good Hope with their smaller and more manoeuvrable ships.
The last working-class hero in England.
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