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A xebec (/ ˈ z iː b ɛ k / or / z ɪ ˈ b ɛ k /), also spelled zebec, was a Mediterranean sailing ship that was used mostly for trading. Xebecs had a long overhanging bowsprit and aft-set mizzen mast .
Xebec, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社ジーベック, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Jībekku, stylized in all caps) was a Japanese animation studio based in Kokubunji, Tokyo, founded by former Tatsunoko Production animators on May 1, 1995.
By mid-1983, Xebec counted among its customer base such large computer companies as Hewlett-Packard, Philips Data, Texas Instruments, and Victor Technology. [8] That same year, the company gained its largest customer yet in IBM, [9] who signed a contract with Xebec worth US$200 million for Xebec's 1210 controller IC for use in IBM's upcoming PC XT—their first Personal Computer system with a ...
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Singe was a Renard-class xebec of the French Navy, launched in 1762. She served in the Mediterranean against the Barbary pirates, and is notable for a number of important officers who served aboard, notably Flotte, Raimondis and Suffren.
While a xebec could carry up to 24 guns, European battleships commonly carried 74 guns after 1750. [7] [8] It thus became increasingly difficult for Tunis to build, equip, man or maintain a naval force that could remain effective in the face of other modern navies in the Mediterranean. In the seventeenth century Tunis and the other Barbary ...
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