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São Martinho had suffered already heavy damage in the battle of Gravelines in July 1588 when a group of English ships led by Sir Francis Drake in Revenge bore down upon her. With the assistance of the galleon São Mateus she escaped the attack and led the Armada back to Spain through a ferocious storm, where she had to be towed into port at ...
A Spanish galleon (left) firing its cannons at a Dutch warship (right). Cornelis Verbeeck, c. 1618–1620 A Spanish galleon Carracks, galleon (center/right), square rigged caravel (below), galley and fusta (galliot) depicted by D. João de Castro on the "Suez Expedition" (part of the Portuguese Armada of 72 ships sent against the Ottoman fleet anchor in Suez, Egypt, in response to its entry in ...
The Galleon Group was one of the largest hedge fund management firms in the world, managing over $7 billion, before closing in October 2009. [1] The firm was the epicenter of a 2009 insider trading scandal which subsequently led to its fall.
Prosecutors have said Rajaratnam, the founder of the New York-based Galleon Group, made as much as $63.8 million in illicit profit from 2003 to 2009 trading on stocks including eBay, Goldman Sachs ...
A fore and aft-rigged vessel with two or more masts of which the foremast is shorter than the main Settee Single-decked, single or double-masted Mediterranean cargo vessel carrying a settee sail Shallop A large, heavily built, sixteenth-century boat which is fore-and-aft rigged; more recently a poetically frail open boat Ship or full-rigged ship
In March 1621, six galleys from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany took refuge in the island of Hospitaller Malta against a sizable Ottoman armada sighted nearby. They came out joined by three galleys and a galleon from the Order of St. John, of which Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt had given command to Spanish knight Clemente Hidalgo to escort them. [1]
Replica of the Victoria, the only one of Ferdinand Magellan's five ships to return to Spain in 1522, showing both a forecastle (left) and quarterdeck (right).. The forecastle (/ ˈ f oʊ k s əl / ⓘ FOHK-səl; contracted as fo'c'sle or fo'c's'le) [1] [2] is the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast, or, historically, the forward part of a ship with the sailors' living quarters.
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