round-stemmed

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The galleons, of which there were about sixty, were huge round-stemmed clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castles. The galeasses of which there were four were a third larger than the ordinary galley, and were rowed each by three hundred galley-slaves.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609)

The galleons, of which there were about sixty, were huge round-stemmed clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castles. The galeasses of which there were four were a third larger than the ordinary galley, and were rowed each by three hundred galley-slaves.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands, 1588c

The galleons, of which there were about sixty, were huge round-stemmed clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castles. The galeasses of which there were four were a third larger than the ordinary galley, and were rowed each by three hundred galley-slaves.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete

The galleons, of which there were about sixty, were huge round-stemmed clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castles. The galeasses of which there were four were a third larger than the ordinary galley, and were rowed each by three hundred galley-slaves.

John Lothrop Motley - PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete