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GALEASSE

Volume 7 · 82 words · 1797 Edition

a large low-built vessel, using both sails fails and oars, and the biggest of all the vessels that make use of the latter. It may carry twenty guns, and has a stern capable of lodging a great number of marines. It has three masts, which are never to be lowered or taken down. It has also thirty-two benches of rowers; and to each bench fix or seven slaves, who sit under cover. This vessel is at present used only by the Venetians.