galleass

Example Sentences

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The galleass had gone on the sands, and as the tide ebbed had fallen over on her side.

From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by Froude, James Anthony

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

Alonzo de Leyva, with half a hundred young Spanish nobles of high rank who were under his special charge, made his way in a galleass into Killibeg.

From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by Froude, James Anthony

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 Hale, John Richard

None, madam, 'twas all whipped out o' me aboard the 'Esmeralda' galleass.

From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Farnol, Jeffery