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Baltic sailing vessel
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galeas
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A galeas is a type of small trade vessel that was common in the Baltic Sea and North Sea from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. The characteristics of the ships depend somewhat from where the ship originated. Swedish variants had two masts and were ...
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n. (alternative form of galleass English)
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Galleass \Gal"le*ass\ (?; 135), n. [F. gal['e]asse, gal['e]ace; cf. It. galeazza, Sp. galeaza; LL. galea a galley. See Galley .] (Naut.) A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern ...
Usage examples of galeas.
The governor of the galeasses having issued orders for a general review at Gouyn, M.
Siamese lug-sails, brigantines, galeasses, Hanseatic League cogs, sixty-oared papyrus galleys, Norse drakkars and dragon-prowed Viking longships called the Oseberg ship.
We left Corfu towards the end of September, with five galleys, two galeasses, and several smaller vessels, under the command of M.
Two vague shadows in the offing showed where the galeasses rolled and tossed upon the great Atlantic rollers, Hawtayne looked wistfully in their direction.