galleass
Example Sentences
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But like most, if not all, compromise types, the galleass was short-lived.
From A History of Sea Power by Stevens, William Oliver
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 Strang, Herbert
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 Froude, James Anthony
The galleass was patched up, and De Leyva ventured an attempt to make his way in her to Scotland.
From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by Froude, James Anthony
He took the galleass at last, after three hours' fighting.
From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by Froude, James Anthony
