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A galleasse was originally a large heavy galley, three-masted, and fitted with a rudder, since its bulk compelled it to trust to sails as well as oars. It was a sort of transition-ship, between the galley and the galleon, and as time went on it became more and more of a sailing ship. It had high bulwarks, with loopholes for muskets, and there was at least a partial cover for the crew. The Portuguese galleys in the Spanish Armada mounted each 110 soldiers and 222 galley-slaves; but the Neapolitan galleasses carried 700 men, of whom 130 were sailors, 270 soldiers, and 300 slaves of the oar. Jurien de la Gravière, Les Derniers Jours de la Marine
Jurien de la Gravière remarks: "Such was the fortune of war in the sixteenth century. A man leaving Naples to go to Spain might end his days in a Moorish bagnio and see his wife and daughters fall a prey to miscreants of the worse description."
So says Jean Marteille de Bergerac, a galley-slave about 1701, quoted by Adm. Jurien de la Gravière, Derniers Jours de la Marine
History of the Maritime Wars of the Turks, 20. Hājji Khalīfa, 21. Jurien de la Gravière, Doria et Barberousse, Pt. I., ch. xv. See the Story of Turkey, 158-163. See S. Lane-Poole, The Art of the Saracens, 239, &c. Doria et Barberousse, Pt. II., ch. vii. Ibid., Pt. II., ch. vii., p. 106 ff. See the Story of Turkey, 170; and the illustrations, pp. 137, 147, 171, 175, 177.
The description of a galeasse of nearly one thousand tons burden is set forth as follows by Jurien de la Gravière: "Her draught of water was about 18 feet 6 inches, she was propelled by 52 oars, 48 feet in length, each oar being worked by 9 men.
In all history there is no record of such a siege, of such a disproportion in the forces, of such a glorious outcome. The Knights of Malta live for ever among the heroes of all time. FOOTNOTES: See an excellent account of the galleys and discipline of the Knights of St. John in Jurien de la Gravière, les Derniers Jours de la Marine
Jurien de la Gravière compares the banca to a cigar-box, in which the traveller is so tightly packed that he would have little chance of saving his life if it happened to upset. We passed several villages and tiendas on the banks in which food was exposed for sale.
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