From the beginning of recorded history and up to the very
end of the XVIIth Century, galleys formed the main constituents
of the Mediterranean maritime powers.
The venetions whose trading interests were vast carried the
galley to its final sophistication the galleass, a sort of
oared frigate which was a high freeboard vessel with a gundeck
above the oarsmen and three masts bearing fore and aft lateen
sails. Such a vessel was copied by other Mediterranean nations
and even the English had form of galleass in their fleet of
1545.
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