galleass
Example Sentences
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Already before the fog lifted a fast galleass had brought the news down Channel that the Spanish were on the sea, and the King's fleet was under way.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Capitana galleass, with Don Hugo de Monçada and eight hundred men on board, had fouled her helm in a cable in getting under way and had become unmanageable.
From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by James Anthony Froude
The English attacked the stranded galleass in pinnaces and boats, Howard with some of the larger ships standing by "to give the men comfort and countenance."
From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by John Richard Hale
Day after day we watched for Spanish sails; for the plate fleets went that way, and some galleass or caravel or galleon might stray aside.
From To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston
The third, the great galleass "Florencia," went down in Tobermory Bay.
From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by John Richard Hale
