. The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel . Venetian Galeass. mation with respect to one called the St. Mary, represented in the vessel had two decks and two masts. It possessed two poops, placedabove each other, two platforms, an upper deck, and a fighting gallery offour or five feet overhanging the poop. This ship, manned by one hundred. 8. Seventeenth Century.—The Great Harry. and ten sailors, was one hundred feet long. The same contracts give usalso information concerning another vessel, called the Rochefort. Althoughnot so long as the St. Mary, she was st
. The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel . Venetian Galeass. mation with respect to one called the St. Mary, represented in the vessel had two decks and two masts. It possessed two poops, placedabove each other, two platforms, an upper deck, and a fighting gallery offour or five feet overhanging the poop. This ship, manned by one hundred. 8. Seventeenth Century.—The Great Harry. and ten sailors, was one hundred feet long. The same contracts give usalso information concerning another vessel, called the Rochefort. Althoughnot so long as the St. Mary, she was stronger and broader. She had two 766 AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA. rudders; one to starboard, and the other to larboard. Her sparringconsisted, also, of two masts; one at the prow, and the other mainmast was smaller and lower than the foremast. It had onlytwenty-six braces, while the other had twenty-eight. The sails of almostall the fleet were of cotton. All the sails were rectangular triangles withthe hypothenuse attached to the yard, and were called antennal. Still,it is proper to mention the assertion of some authors, that the sails of vessels were square. Their assertions were only founded on theform and dimensions of the yards, which all the documents of the timerepresent as very long and slung by the middle. We ought to observethat, in speak
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