galleass

Example Sentences

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Day after day we watched for Spanish sails; for the plate fleets went that way, and some galleass or caravel or galleon might stray aside.

From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary

The galleass was patched up, and De Leyva ventured an attempt to make his way in her to Scotland.

From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by Froude, James Anthony

I was rising seventeen, as I said, and gunner's mate aboard the Anne Gallant, a noble galleass.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert

A huge galleass had her rudder broken and drifted helplessly with the tide.

From In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls by De Land, Clyde Osmer

The third, the great galleass "Florencia," went down in Tobermory Bay.

From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by Hale, John Richard