. The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel . entury, in the fourteenth, the kind called subtle galleys, were observedto preponderate. These galleys, extremely light and swift, were furnishedon each side with from twenty-four to twenty-six oars, and might havebeen from one hundred and ten to one hundred and twenty feet in , in the fourteenth century, and even in the fifteenth and sixteenth,the most celebrated ships were the carracks. Their tonnage may be esti-mated by their cargoes, which sometimes amounted to fourteen hundredcasks. In 1359, the Castilians took a V
. The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel . entury, in the fourteenth, the kind called subtle galleys, were observedto preponderate. These galleys, extremely light and swift, were furnishedon each side with from twenty-four to twenty-six oars, and might havebeen from one hundred and ten to one hundred and twenty feet in , in the fourteenth century, and even in the fifteenth and sixteenth,the most celebrated ships were the carracks. Their tonnage may be esti-mated by their cargoes, which sometimes amounted to fourteen hundredcasks. In 1359, the Castilians took a Venetian carrack, which had three covers (decks), and must consequently have been as high as the greatstoreships of the seventeenth century. In 1545, a French carrack, theCarraquon, which passed for the finest ship and fastest sailer of the western ocean, was of eight hundred tons burthen, and had one hundred piecesof artillery of all calibers for armament. The carracks of the fourteenthcentury had only two masts ; in the fifteenth, they took three, and after. 10. Seventeenth Century.—A Galley.
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