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  2. Venetian navy - Wikipedia

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    Like the galley it was used both as an escort and a transport, Venetian brigantines were about 20 metres long and 3 metres wide, The galiot, a small galley type ship powered by both oars and sail, also known as the half galley, length was about 25 metres, beam 4 metres and with provision for 15 pairs of oars

  3. List of sailing ships of the Venetian navy - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of sailing ships of the Venetian navy. From the Cretan War to the fall of the Republic of Venice in 1797, the Venetian Republic maintained a good number of sailing ships for its navy , which formed the so-called Armada Grossa , as opposed to the galley -based Armada Sottile .

  4. Galley - Wikipedia

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    A galley is a type of ship optimised for propulsion by oars. ... Animated 3D model of the basic hull structure of a Venetian "galley of Flanders", a large trading ...

  5. Venetian Arsenal - Wikipedia

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    Stone Lion of Saint Mark above the main gate at the Arsenal Entrance to the Arsenal ca. 1860–70. Photo by Venetian photographer Carlo Ponti. Venetian Arsenal towers. The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) is a complex of former shipyards and armories clustered together in the city of Venice in northern Italy.

  6. Galeas per montes - Wikipedia

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    Map of the route taken between Rovereto and Torbole. Galeas per montes (galleys across mountains) is the name given to a feat of military engineering made between December 1438 and April 1439 by the Republic of Venice, when several Venetian ships, including galleys and frigates were transported from the Adriatic Sea to Lake Garda.

  7. Venetian ship Europa - Wikipedia

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    Europa was a first-rank ship of the line of the Venetian navy, serving from 1739 to 1764.. Europa belonged to the third and final batch of the San Lorenzo Zustinian class, representing the largest vessels of the Venetian navy, with some 50 metres (160 ft) total length, a displacement of c. 2000 tons, and armed with 66 cannon (28 × 40-pounders, 28 × 20-pounders, 10 × 14-pounders). [1]

  8. Battle of Focchies - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Focchies was a significant naval engagement that took place on 12 May 1649, in the harbour of Focchies, Smyrna between a Venetian force of nineteen warships under the command of Giacomo da Riva, and an Ottoman force of eleven warships, ten galleasses, and seventy-two galleys, with the battle resulting in a crushing victory for the Venetian fleet.

  9. List of ship launches in 1739 - Wikipedia

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    The list of ship launches in 1739 includes a chronological list of some ships ... Galley: For Venetian Navy. [11] Unknown date Cuba: Havana: Glorioso: Third rate: For ...