In 1000 AD, Leif Eriksson sailed a 55-foot Viking cargo ship with tiller in hand, probably across the Atlantic. About 1520, Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the globe, using a wooden staff (called a whipstaff) attached to the tiller.
In 1620, the pilgrims sailed the 100-foot long Mayflower across the Atlantic Ocean, using a whipstaff.
None of them used a ship's wheel.
In fact, ships didn't switch to a steering wheel until about 1703. The exact date is a mystery, although, in 2002, divers recovered the earliest archaeological evidence establishing a date for the wheel from the 1703 wreck of the Stirling Castle.
- This design is available for the 4" x 4" hoop.
- The sewn out size is 3.84" W x 3.81" H with 7,033 stitches.
- This design has 2 thread colors.
You must have an embroidery machine to utilize our machine embroidery designs. We sell machine embroidery designs as electronic media (software) only. We do not sell embroidered "patches" or hard copy patterns.
