This linkspage is intended to show how medieval mariners dressed -- the regular sailors & seamen, rather than the more grandly-dressed captains, explorers, etc.

• Two ships engaged in battle, The Smithfield Decretals (British Library MS Royal 10 E. IV, fol. 19), c. 1340
• A sailor (NAUIGANS), a book of astrological treatises (PML M.785, fol. 32r), c. 1403
• The Shipman in the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, c. 1410; see also the description of the Shipman in the General Prologue.
• Mark and Tristan's sailors, Tristan de Léonois (BNF Fr. 102, fol. 168), c. 1470
• The Saint Ursula Shrine by Hans Memling, 1489: The Arrival at Basle, The Departure from Basle, and The Arrival at Cologne
• Sailors from Christoph Weiditz' Trachtenbuch, 1529
• Clothing of the sailors on the Mary Rose, 1545
• A sailor, Habitus praecipuorum populorum by Hans Weigel, 1577
• Longitudes of the Earth, New discoveries; the sciences, inventions, and discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as represented in 24 engravings issued in the early 1580's by Stradanus
• Frontispiece from The Mariner's Mirrour, 1588
• A seaman from Habiti antichi e moderni di tutto il mondo by Cesare Vecelli, 1600