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galleon

[gal-ee-uhn, gal-yuhn] / ˈgæl i ən, ˈgæl jən /




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The galleon also brought a critical technical secret.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

Artefacts from voyages line exhibits surrounding the vessel, including part of a Chinese tomb that once served as ballast in the hold of a galleon.

From Barron's Apr. 28, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

The South American nation has also declared a protected archaeological area around the San José galleon - which was sunk by the British Royal Navy in 1708 in the Caribbean Sea.

From BBC May 26, 2024

So the Incan woman retired to a galleon arm-in-arm with her Spaniard, singing that the chains of slavery were sweet when bound with the chains of love, while her people were engulfed in magma.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

The galleons brought more than silver to the Philippines.

From Barron's Apr. 28, 2026

An estimated 3 million wrecks litter the seafloor, ranging from Nazi gold ships and Spanish galleons to ordinary cargo ships.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2024

Of even greater interest to the Chinese, though, were Spanish galleons from Manila, carrying silver from mines in the Americas.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

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

Or sometimes we’d pre-tend we were the Dutch going out on raids against Spanish galleons.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor




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