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A large, fast, heavily armed three-masted Mediterranean galley of the 16th and 17th centuries.

noun - a large war galley

GALLEASS - Galleasses were military ships developed from large merchant galleys. Converted for military use, they were higher, larger and slower than regular ("...

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Form of transport taking girls round meadows

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Jan 22 2005 The Times - Cryptic

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Nautical A large, fast, heavily armed three-masted Mediterranean galley of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Galleass description
Galleasses were military ships developed from large merchant galleys. Converted for military use, they were higher, larger and slower than regular ("light") galleys. They had up to 32 oars, each worked by up to 5 men. They usually had three masts and a forecastle and aftcastle. Much effort was made in Venice to make these galleasses as fast as possible to compete with regular galleys. The gun deck usually ran over the rowers' heads, but there are also pictures showing the opposite arrangement. * Galleasses usually carried more sails than true galleys and were far deadlier; a galley caught broadside lay all but helpless, since coming broadside to a galleass, as with a ship of the line, exposed an attacker to her gunfire. Relatively few galleasses were builtone disadvantage was that, being more reliant on sails, their position at the front of the galley line at the start of a battle could not be guaranteedbut they were used at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, their firepower helping to win v

Galleass description

Galleasses were military ships developed from large merchant galleys. Converted for military use, they were higher, larger and slower than regular ("light") galleys. They had up to 32 oars, each worked by up to 5 men. They usually had three masts and a forecastle and aftcastle. Much effort was made in Venice to make these galleasses as fast as possible to compete with regular galleys. The gun deck usually ran over the rowers' heads, but there are also pictures showing the opposite arrangement.
* Galleasses usually carried more sails than true galleys and were far deadlier; a galley caught broadside lay all but helpless, since coming broadside to a galleass, as with a ship of the line, exposed an attacker to her gunfire. Relatively few galleasses were builtone disadvantage was that, being more reliant on sails, their position at the front of the galley line at the start of a battle could not be guaranteedbut they were used at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, their firepower helping to win v

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