The boats were called galleys, galleots, brigantines ( "_galeotas ligeras o vergãtines_," or _frigatas_), &c., according to their size: a galleot is a small galley, while a brigantine may be called a quarter galley. ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)
These were often speculative shopkeepers, who invested in a part share of a galleot on the chance of a prize, and who often discovered that ruin lay in so hazardous a lottery. ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)
_Allahu Akbar_, "God is Most Great," as the sheep is slaughtered over the vessel's prow -- a symbol, they said, of the Christian blood to be shed -- and the galleot glides into the water prepared for her career of devastation: built by Christians and manned by Christians, commanded probably by a quondam Christian, she sallies forth to prey upon ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)
Far from shirking a conflict with so formidable an antagonist, Murād gave hot pursuit with his single galleot, and coming up with the _Serena_, boarded and mastered her in half an hour. ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)
At last he contrived to purchase and man a galleot, with which he cruised the waters of the Levant, where his intimate acquaintance with all the coasts and islands enabled him to seize and dispose of many prizes. ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)
The Senate of Genoa was highly incensed at the loss of the galleot, and Andrea Doria, soon to be known as the greatest Christian admiral of his time, was despatched with twelve galleys to exact reparation. ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)
It was no light adventure for a galleot of eighteen banks of oars to board a royal galley of perhaps twice her size, and with no one could tell how many armed men inside her. ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)
Bujēya for the moment escaped, but the Corsairs enjoyed some little consolation in the capture of a rich Genoese galleot which they met on its voyage to the Lomellini's mart at Tabarka. ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)
Never before had a galley-royal struck her colours to a mere galleot. ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)
Two or three were needed for a galleot, and as many sometimes as six for each oar of a large galley. ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)
Fridays and Sundays were the favourite days for sailing; a gun is fired in honour of their tutelary patron; "God speed us!" shout the crew; "God send you a prize!" reply the crowd on the shore, and the galleot swiftly glides away on its destructive path. ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)
The moment he is in the roads, the _Liman_ Reïs, or Port Admiral, goes on board, and takes his report to the Pasha; then the galleot enters the port, and all the oars are dropped into the water and towed ashore, so that no Christian captives may make off with the ship in the absence of the captain and troops. ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)
When his patron was engaged at the siege of Malta in 1565, young Murād gave him the slip, and went on a private cruise of his own, in which he contrived to split his galleot upon a rock. ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)
Then the _armadores_, or owners of the new galleot, as soon as it is finished, come down with presents of money and clothes, and hang them upon the mast and rigging, to the value of two hundred or three hundred ducats, to be divided among their slaves, whose only pay till that day has been the daily loaves. ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)
An instant later, and another galleot bore down to complete the work, striking with her iron prow the doomed St. Philip so straightly and surely that she went down like a stone, carrying with her galley slaves, sailors, and soldiers, besides all the treasure brought by Spinola for the use of his fleet. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
It seems almost like the irony of history, and yet it is the literal fact, that the Dutch galleot of that day -- hardly changed in two and a half centuries since -- "the bull-browed galleot butting through the stream," -- [Oliver Wendell Holmes] -- was then the model clipper, conspicuous among all ships for its rapid sailing qualities and ease of handling. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
The Morning St.r was the next galley attacked, Captain Sael, in a stout galleot, driving at her under full sail, with the same accuracy and solidity of shock as had been displayed in the encounter with the St. Philip and with the same result. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
Next, four galleys attacked the stout little galleot of Captain Logier, and with a very similar result. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
And this had been done with an army averaging forty-six thousand men, half of them foreigners hired by the job, and by a sea-faring population, volunteering into ships of every class and denomination, from a fly-boat to a galleot of war. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
