The Maritime Museum of Malacca has a reconstruction of Flor de Mar, the large Portuguese carrack that served as Almeida's flagship at Diu. Its scale gives a concrete view of a ship type that can otherwise remain an abstract order-of-battle label. The replica's Malaysian location also connects the vessel with Portuguese expansion into Malacca. This visual pause comes just before the account turns to the approach and battle.
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See Flor de Mar's scale in Malacca
A museum reconstruction in Malacca gives viewers a concrete sense of the large Portuguese carrack that served as Almeida's flagship.