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These ships were known as galliasses, [18] and galleons, according to the proportions between their lengths and beams.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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Drake off the poop of his ship, while he hammers away at one of the great galliasses.
Westward Ho! 2007
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The largest of the four galliasses loses her rudder, and drifts helpless to and fro, hindering and confusing.
Westward Ho! 2007
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One of the four great galliasses is already riddled with shot, to the great disarrangement of her “pulpits, chapels,” and friars therein assistant.
Westward Ho! 2007
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Wherefore hee made most extreme diligence to rigge and apparell many ships and vessels of diuers sorts, as galliasses, gallies, pallandres, fustes, and brigantines, to the number of 350. sailes and moe. 273 When the prisoner that the sayd de Merall did send into Turkie had done his commission, hee returned into Rhodes, whereof euery man had maruell.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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All this while the gallies and galliasses went and came to land, bringing vitaile and people.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The great hoste abode still till noone or one of the clocke, and then arose, not all, but about 80 or 100 ships, as gallies, galliasses, and fusts: and passed one after another before the towne and hauen of Rhodes three miles off, and came to shore in
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In briefe, there were missing 81 ships, in which number were galliasses, gallies, galeons, and other vessels, both great and small.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Two ships also, were cast away vpon the coast of Norway, one of them being of a great burthen; howbeit all the persons in the sayd great ship were saued: insomuch that of 134 ships, which set saile out of Portugall, there returned home 53 onely small and great: namely of the foure galliasses but one, and but one of the foure gallies.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In this sudden confusion, the principall and greatest of the foure galliasses falling fowle of another ship, lost her rudder: for which cause when she conld not be guided any longer, she was by the force of the tide cast into a certaine showld vpon the shore of Caleis, where she was immediately assaulted by diuers English pinasses, hoyes, and drumblers.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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