Year: 1964 Language: English Author: Buehr W. Genre: History Publisher: Putnam Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 104 Description: "Warfare or defense greatly influenced the design of ships for centuries. Before there were navies long-ranging enough to patrol the seas, even merchant ships were heavily armed. Here is the story of how galleys, the biremes and the triremes, were developed, improved, and eventually outmoded by the lumbering galleons. The galleons ruled the seas during the rise of Spain and the long rivalry between Spain and England, a period that came to an exciting climax in the looting of the famous Spanish treasure galleons on the Spanish Main."
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Galleys and galleons
Language: English
Author: Buehr W.
Genre: History
Publisher: Putnam
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 104
Description: "Warfare or defense greatly influenced the design of ships for centuries. Before there were navies long-ranging enough to patrol the seas, even merchant ships were heavily armed.
Here is the story of how galleys, the biremes and the triremes, were developed, improved, and eventually outmoded by the lumbering galleons. The galleons ruled the seas during the rise of Spain and the long rivalry between Spain and England, a period that came to an exciting climax in the looting of the famous Spanish treasure galleons on the Spanish Main."
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