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From: "Brian Creed" <>
Subject: Re: [TSL] What kind of vessel was a galley in early 18thC?
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 10:55:28 +1200
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Thank you to everyone who replied to my question. I have found a possible
answer via Google Books search.
In William Falconer's Marine Dictionary 1769 under Frigate, he describes
2 types of merchant ship:
Firstly: frigate-built implies merchant ship with descent of 4 or 5
steps from the quarter-deck and forecastle into the waist.
Secondly: merchant ship whose decks are on a continued line for the
whole length of the ship, which are called galley-built.
So the answer may be just a ship-builders term describing a type of
merchant vessel.
thank you, Brian Creed
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From: "Brian Creed" <>
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Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 5:27 PM
Subject: [TSL] What kind of vessel was a galley in early 18thC?


> Hello List,
> In summer 1719 the pirate Edward England took several ships along the
African coast south of the river Gambia.
> Amongst them was " the Coward Galley, Captain Creed , of London, taken
the 17th June, having 2 guns and 13 men on board, 4 of which turned
Pyrates."
> The ship was burned, no mention of the fate of those who didn't turn
pirate. The word " galley " conjures up great banks of oars pulled by
sweating slaves but the description doesn't seem to fit this. Can anyone
enlighten me?
> The quote, by the way, came from Defoe's General History of Pirates.
> Thank you, Brian Creed, New Zealand
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