| Shots were fired from behind and an all out sea battle began, the sloop versus three heavily armed galleons. |
| The Queen's interest in the booty that could be seized from Spanish galleons was not simply greed but necessity. |
| Modern-day pirates have traded in galleons and flintlocks for high-speed motor launches and semi-automatic rifles. |
| Most of the damage was to the older ships, from galleys to galleons and frigates to pre-dreadnaught steamers. |
| The galleons were shorter in proportion to their breadth than the galliasses. |
| Some sunken Spanish galleons, still laden with gold, lie undiscovered to this day. |
