Caffa’s shipboard societies in a crisis situation in the 14th century

The article deals for the first times with the shipboard societies in the outermost periphery of the Latin Romania in global crisis of 14th century, is analyzed the collection of Caffa’s notarial acts from 1343-1344, 1371, 1381-1382 and 1394-1395, are involved Roman civil law of Justinian, Greek names and toponyms databases, “Digital Tabula Imperii Byzantini”, Greek sailors graffiti, are very significant changes in the activities of the shipping communities - increase the role of Greeks as vessels patrons; appearance of women among ship owners, that it was impossible in the preceding centuries; sailing without owner; possibility of implementing life of Greek fisherman and other. The method of case study was used for the research; the cases were “ship under a women”, “women’s ship”, “Pontic ship”, “ship without owner”, “fisherman’s property”.