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GALEON
GALEON, a name formerly given to ships of war, furnished with three or four batteries of cannon. It is now retained only by the Spaniards, and applied to the largest size of their merchant ships, employed on West-Indian voyages, and usually furnished with four decks. They likewise bestow the same name on those vessels, whether great or small, which proceed annually to La Vera Cruz. The Portugueze also have several ships which they send to India and the Brazils, nearly resembling the galeons, and by them called caragues.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 136, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0602.html