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 127
nspection of the floating citadel, when suddenly cries of alarm were heard.A fire had broken out between decks; it burnt with astonishing rapidity,and, before help could be efficiently rendered, the whole of the rigging wasin flames. In a few hours all that remained of the Great Carack was… … The galliot occupied an intermediate place between the ship properly socalled and the large galley. It was, in fact, a slighter vessel, longer andnarrower in the beam than all other kinds of ships. Galliots were sometimes, NAVAL MATTERS. 81 but not often, propelled by oars (Fig. 76). The ordinary…
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