galleon

Artefacts from voyages line exhibits surrounding the vessel, including part of a Chinese tomb that once served as ballast in the hold of a galleon.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Sunk in 1708, the galleon San José attained legendary status.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

A Spanish galleon, the San José, was sunk by the British off the coast of Colombia more than 300 years ago.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024

The life-size statue known as the Black Nazarene and showing Jesus carrying the cross was brought in the 16th century from Mexico on a galleon in 1606 by Spanish missionaries.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2024

Before them, surrounded by ferns and palm trees, white and powdery in the silent morning light, was an enormous Spanish galleon.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Early in the process, Quezon, a historian and grandson of a former Philippine president, learned to his dismay that the local hardwood and water-resistant species used to build the galleons had long been wiped out.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Scenes on Spanish galleons and Aztec pyramids unfold amid a pulsating beat of rock, pop and flamenco riffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026

Look at the massive Seville cityscape here, by an unknown painter from around 1660, in which men of lighter and darker skin tones gossip and gallivant on the riverbank as galleons sail by.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

It is not like corporations deploy an armada of 17th century galleons to sail shipments of gold across the ocean.

From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2021

Or sometimes we’d pre-tend we were the Dutch going out on raids against Spanish galleons.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor