galleon

IPA: gˈæɫiʌn

Examples of "galleon" in Sentences

The galleon was another type of large ship that Champlain knew well.
The galleon was the _Mary of the Tower_, and she had a frightful list to starboard.
Sebastien Carmenon piled up on the rocks with a silk-laden galleon from the Philippines.
Drake, Sebastien Carmenon piled up on the rocks with a silk-laden galleon from the Philippines.
Here, less than two decades after Drake, Sebastien Carmenon piled up on the rocks with a silk-laden galleon from the Philippines.
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 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.
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.
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.