GALEASSE XVII century

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GALEASSE XVII century

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:08 am

The stamp design of the Sierra Leone stamp is most probably made after a drawing in Björn Landström book “Sailing Ships” page 118/19 and he gives:
During the 17th century, the Mediterranean galleass underwent no major change. A galleass from 1699 was propelled by 300 or 350 oarsmen at 50 oars.
It carried lateen sails on three masts, and a bowsprit with spritsail.
The ram had gone, and its place has been taken by a beak-head typical of the sailing ships of those days.
In comparison with the broadsides that could be fired by the large sailing-ships, the armament of the galleass seems to be remarkable weak. It carried rarely more than twenty guns. Pictures of galleasses from the same period appear to show up to fifty guns, but they are mostly small swivel-guns.
Both the galley and the galleass had really become outmoded during the 16th century, and that they continued to be built probably depended mainly on the dogmatic belief that sea-fights in the Mediterranean, with its few winds, could only be carried out with oar-propelled vessels.

Cuba 1972 3c sg1980, scott?
Sierra Leone 2008 2800le sg?, scott?
Libya 1993 50dh sg2147, scott?
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