galleon

• “Sebastien Carmenon piled up on the rocks with a silk-laden galleon from the Philippines.”

  FOUR HORSES AND A SAILOR

• “In galleries, the galleon is installed against a painted map of the Tomales Bay excursion, early-modernified to look like an explorer's map, and showing the triangular route of the afternoon's trip, referring to the triangular routes of Manila galleons between San Francisco, the Philippines and Mexico.”

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• “Here, less than two decades after Drake, Sebastien Carmenon piled up on the rocks with a silk-laden galleon from the Philippines.”

  Four Horses and a Sailor

• “Drake, Sebastien Carmenon piled up on the rocks with a silk-laden galleon from the Philippines.”

  Four Horses and a Sailor

• “At Tobermory, on the west of Scotland, a little handful of men have a strong faith that a sunken galleon from the Spanish Armada is the prison house of great treasure, and their faith is productive of an energy which makes zealous quest.”

  Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers

• “The modern connotation of "galleon" comes partly from the Armada, and partly from a later era, the 17th century, when a galleon was the Spanish equivalent of an Indiaman.”

  Archaic terminology in historical fiction

• “The galleon was another type of large ship that Champlain knew well.”

  Simon & Schuster: Champlain's Dream

• “The galleon was a long slender ship of extremely low freeboard, rakish rigged as a single-master, both sails and oars being used as”

  The Stamps of Canada

• “The galleon was the _Mary of the Tower_, and she had a frightful list to starboard.”

  Widdershins

• “The galleon is a very fine one, and it will be very useful when occasion arises.”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

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