But while the light cruiser has four cannons on each side, the frigate packs five. It’s a frigate from the eighteenth century, as the term was used to describe full-rigged ships.įrom afar, the ship looks a little like the light cruiser, with a similar hull and bow. However, this inaccuracy doesn’t make it harder to classify the ship. This doesn’t seem to be the case here the foremast possesses one sail, and the main and mizzenmasts possess two, but all of them are square. In naval terms, this means it’s full-rigged, but even most full-rigged ships had a lateen sail on the mizzenmast. This ship has three masts which are square-rigged. Its colors and proportions would change drastically when it appeared later at Water 7, in chapter 431. This ship featured in Koby and Helmeppo’s cover story and in chapter 905.īehind the light cruiser is the personal battleship of Vice-Admiral Garp, which, until canon states otherwise, I’m calling the Hounder. Once again, there’s little resemblance to any class of vessel, and considering it’s almost hybrid-like nature, I’m referring to it as a light cruiser. The superstructure looks like a cylinder and a rectangle merged together, and the foremast has only one sail. It has the body of a caravel but enlarged and more heavily armed. Perhaps it’s symbolic of his lack of a real sense of justice? There’s also a rounded opening in the hull near the anchor, probably for easier disembarkment. Nezumi’s ship lacks a spritsail, in contrast with all smaller Marine craft. The railings and superstructure are also more rectangular.
In addition to the spritsail, a headsail is connected from the bowsprit to the top of the foremast. Pudding-Pudding’s ship appears to be larger than Nezumi’s, and it has a sharper bow.
It wouldn’t be until the mid-nineteenth century when the word came to be seen universally as a class of its own. So, I went with the word cruiser, as back in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was used in the context of the purpose or mission of the ship. Galleons, barques, and barracks are the likely inspirations, but Oda’s designs don’t match any of the specific standards of those ships.
Nezumi used his ship to travel between the Conomi Islands and his base, while Pudding-Pudding and his ship were destroyed when he tried to evacuate the survivors of Arlong’s tyranny.Ĭlassifying these ships proved more difficult than classifying the caravel. The painted MARINE has been moved to the tan lower sides of the hull, while the white upper sides have been equipped with six cannons in a continuous row.īoth ships possess a number on their lateen sail which corresponds to the Marine branch they are a part of. These ships are much larger then caravels, possessing a foremast with two sails, a mainmast with two sails, and a mizzenmast with a lateen sail. Nezumi’s cruiser (First seen in chapter 76) Pudding-Pudding’s cruiser (First seen in chapter 75) They’re rather easy to destroy, as a single cannonball from the Merry tore one apart, with the wreckage sinking the one right next to it. Eight caravels attacked the Straw Hats as they fled Alabasta, equipped with specialized guns that fired iron spears instead of cannonballs. Smoker and Hina both sailed in these vessels during the early parts of One Piece, though Hina’s was modified with a taller mainmast and an additional sail with her name on it. This ship first appeared during the Baratie Arc, commanded by Lieutenant Fullbody. More specifically, it’s a square-rigged caravel, which was a hybrid of the caravel and carrack designs created in the second half of the fifteenth century. While the ship possesses more cannons then the Going Merry, it’s dimensions and sail pattern are nearly identical, hence why I’ve named it the caravel. The sides have the word MARINE painted on them, with a cannon stationed between the A and the R and another cannon stationed after the word. This ship possesses a mainmast with one sail and a mizzenmast with a lateen sail, as well as a spritsail on its bowsprit. The smallest Marine ship in the manga, about the same size as the Going Merry. I’m not sure which is more accurate to Oda’s original vision, but I prefer the manga versions, so that’s what I’m going with. The chapters have been colorized by MangaDex, so all of the smaller ships have a tan and white color palette, in contrast with the navy and green one from the anime.
I will be providing links to the manga pages in which these ships appear on. I’m going to cover every type of ship shown in the series, talk about what real-life ships they may have been based on, and how they’ve been used in the story.īefore we begin, something to note. There exists a high number of different Marine ships in the One Piece world.
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