Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 125
rew very little water. This style of vessel, whichfrom its shape was considered insubmersable, was largely used both for war-like and commercial purposes, from the twelfth to the close of the fifteenthcentury. The coque, so frequently employed in the Middle Ages, doubtlesssuggested the construction… … Fig. 72.—Sketch of a Galley of the Sixteenth Century, painted in distemper on the door of acupboard preserved in the Doria Palace, Genoa. cate the character of this kind of vessel, namely, that it was a broad-beamed,slow-sailing craft, but one capable of carrying large and heavy cargoes. Such…
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