galleass
Example Sentences
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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 galleass struck a rock off Dunluce and went to pieces, and Don Alonzo and the princely youths who had sailed with him were washed ashore all dead, to find an unmarked grave in Antrim.
From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by James Anthony Froude
I was rising seventeen, as I said, and gunner's mate aboard the Anne Gallant, a noble galleass.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
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 galleass was shattered to matchwood, and Leyva perished with all on board save five who swam ashore.
From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by John Richard Hale
