galleon

She was checking people in on the pier for a separate boat tour to Sazan on a replica galleon that advertises the opportunity to “be a pirate for a day.”

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

The beverage’s roots go back to 1565, when the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade route began between Mexico and the Philippines, permanently altering both countries’ culinary trajectories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

"In those days, you would have levelled entire forests just to be able to produce a single galleon," he said.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

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

On the other end, the galleons sent the Asian coconut palm to Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

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

Beyond lie the turquoise and azure waters of the lagoon, a white line of surf at the reef, cumulus clouds on the horizon moving as stately as galleons.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2023

Of even greater interest to the Chinese, though, were Spanish galleons from Manila, carrying silver from mines in the Americas.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

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

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor