| Some sunken Spanish galleons, still laden with gold, lie undiscovered to this day. |
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| The Model 75 galleons had standardized deck layouts, and few customers made any changes. |
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| The galleons were shorter in proportion to their breadth than the galliasses. |
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| Shots were fired from behind and an all out sea battle began, the sloop versus three heavily armed galleons. |
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| The Queen's interest in the booty that could be seized from Spanish galleons was not simply greed but necessity. |
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| Soon galleons were transporting wholesale quantities of the dried bugs to dyers in the great textile centers of Europe. |
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| From gold-laden galleons to a fully rigged tea-clipper, there are wrecks galore in the clear waters around Salcombe. |
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| These people were allowed to trade with the galleons in exchange for welcoming fourteen Franciscan missionaries on their land. |
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| A year later, secure in the north, Gloriana's licensed pirates in their gun-crammed galleons, aided by a storm, saw off the Spanish Armada. |
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| Modern-day pirates have traded in galleons and flintlocks for high-speed motor launches and semi-automatic rifles. |
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| Most of the damage was to the older ships, from galleys to galleons and frigates to pre-dreadnaught steamers. |
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| The setting for this adventure features three galleons run aground on islands in the middle of banana plantations and palm trees. |
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| The Spanish islands and their natural harbors became vital hubs of shipping and trade for the galleons that carried the wealth of the new world to Europe. |
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| On just day two, there was a fleet of World War One battleships from Scapa Flow, and a brace of 19th century treasure galleons from the Scilly Isles. |
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| Spanish and Portuguese colonies stretched across south, central, and southern North America while Spain's galleons crossed the Pacific to the Philippines. |
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| The vaulted arsenals, the shipyards where the Venetian galleons were built. |
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| By mid-century, Spanish galleons loaded with treasure sailed annually for Europe, becoming prey to pirates, many of them English, based in the Bahamas. |
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| Then these galleons were repaired and joined the West Indian fleet, which generally sailed on calmer seas. |
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| And in pursuit of those dreams the head of this Communist state dives in search of treasure, on two 17th century galleons that he has made his personal property. |
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| Meanwhile, China sent its finest silks and porcelain on galleons via the American continent to the drawing rooms of Europe. |
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| In general, the galleons of the Spanish Basques were quite large, weighing between 200 and 650 tons and carrying crews of 50 to 120 men. |
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| Besides, these Kirkland galleons are pretty tough for civvy ships. |
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| Large galleons clash in plumes of cannon smoke, and groups of soldiers and horsemen engage in combat. |
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| Her twin masts come from the forests of Austria and she is ballasted with lead rather than the great stones used by the Spaniards in their galleons. |
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| Calla lilies came to Mexico with slaves from Africa, and Chinese chrysanthemums arrived aboard Spanish galleons. |
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| The sea caught this vessel by surprise, as it did the galleons of the Spanish Armada in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
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| The galleons left Manila in June and reached Acapulco in Mexico at the end of November or early December. |
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| At least 90 of them were Spanish galleons and another 40 of them Portuguese Indiamen. |
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| The Manila galleons were accompanied with a large naval escort as it traveled to and from Manila and Acapulco. |
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| Inhabited by Arawak and Carib tribes and later renamed by Columbus, the islands were once teeming with pirates and privateers who preyed on the Spanish galleons bound for Europe with Incan gold. |
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| The Spanish invasion fleet outnumbered the English fleet's 22 galleons and 108 armed merchant ships. |
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| The Manila galleons operated for two and a half centuries linking Manila and Acapulco, in one of the longest trade routes in history. |
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| Spanish galleons travelled across the Pacific Ocean between Acapulco in Mexico and Manila. |
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| The Portuguese participation included a squadron of galleons and another of galleys, with a total of 16 ships and more than 5,800 men. |
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| On 26 May 1526, this diminished fleet of four ships, three galleons and the patache, passed through the Strait and entered the Pacific. |
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| From there, the Spanish sent galleons to Acapulco, where goods were shipped to Mexico City and then to Veracruz, for transportation to Spain. |
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| The huge, enduring arbitrage opportunity drew in the metal: Spanish galleons brought more than 50 tons a year from Acapulco to Manila, whence Chinese merchants carried it on. |
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| Ontziola opens its doors to the Bay of Pasaia, soaking itself in the local seafaring history, taking us back to times of galleons, whale fishing and far off sea routes. |
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| In the middle of the 16th century the first galleons were developed from the carrack. |
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| The Manila galleons, the largest wooden ships ever built, were constructed in Bicol and Cavite. |
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| The galleons sailed once or twice a year, between the 16th and 19th centuries. |
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| Between 1609 and 1616, 9 galleons and 6 galleys were constructed in Philippine shipyards. |
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| The wrecks of the Manila galleons are legends second only to the wrecks of treasure ships in the Caribbean. |
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| Between 1565 and 1815, Spain owned 108 galleons of which 26 were lost at sea for various reasons. |
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| After 1552, the ships sailing for the West Indies were supposed to carry arms roughly similar in their composition and proportions to those carried by the Basque galleons. |
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| The trade that the galleons made possible and the culture that they disseminated made possible the linkage of peoples of Asia, America, Europe and Africa despite the wide ocean that physically separated them. |
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| The seaside is painted in these oils on panel, in two ways: in the first one there are beautiful galleons who are moving in the wind. In the the second one, it refers to the activities of the beach. |
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| In view of the fact that the entire Spanish fleet in the West Indies bringing back the gold and silver of the conquered peoples numbered only 70 to 80 ships, the presence off Labrador of some 20 galleons may seem surprising. |
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| For example, Manila galleons could not sail into the wind at all. |
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| The galleons and great ships were concentrated in the centre and at the tips of the crescent's horns, giving cover to the transports and supply ships in between. |
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| Manila galleons brought in far more silver to China than the Silk Road. |
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| By then, only two galleons were left from the original seven. |
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| Until 1593, four galleons travelled at the same time, later only two. |
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| The galleons San Mateo and San Felipe drifted away in a sinking condition, ran aground on the island of Walcheren the next day, and were taken by the Dutch. |
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| The Manila galleons sailed the Pacific for 250 years, bringing to the Americas cargoes of luxury goods such as spices and porcelain, in exchange for silver. |
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