galleon

"In those days, you would have levelled entire forests just to be able to produce a single galleon," he said.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Sunk in 1708, the galleon San José attained legendary status.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

A Spanish galleon, the San José, was sunk by the British off the coast of Colombia more than 300 years ago.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024

Four hundred and one years earlier, the first “smog report” was entered into the log of the San Salvador, a galleon captained by the Iberian Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

He brought the construction kit of the Spanish galleon model, and worked at it in here.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

The Spanish, who had at first just flitted along the coast in their galleons, had begun marching inland and overland from Mexico with crosses and soldiers and soldiers’ families.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Early in the process, Quezon, a historian and grandson of a former Philippine president, learned to his dismay that the local hardwood and water-resistant species used to build the galleons had long been wiped out.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Look at the massive Seville cityscape here, by an unknown painter from around 1660, in which men of lighter and darker skin tones gossip and gallivant on the riverbank as galleons sail by.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

It is not like corporations deploy an armada of 17th century galleons to sail shipments of gold across the ocean.

From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2021

Spanish treasure galleons were soon sailing home loaded with riches from mines in Mexico and Peru.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis