Galiot

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A galiot, galliot or galiote, was a small galley boat propelled by sail or oars. There are three different types of naval galiots that sailed on different seas.

A galiote was a type of French flat-bottom river boat or barge and also a flat-bottomed boat with a simple sail for transporting wine.

Naval vessels

• Mediterranean, (16th–17th centuries)

Historically, a galiot was a type of ship with oars, also known as a

Barbarossa I, that captured two Papal vessels in 1504.^[1]

A galiot was a type of Dutch or German merchant ship of 20 to 400 tons (

leeward drift due to their flat bottoms, smaller vessels were usually fitted with leeboards. After 1830, a modernised type of galiot was developed that featured a sharper bow similar to a schooner. These vessels rarely had leeboards.^[2]

A galiote (or galiot) was a French type of naval warship that might have two masts with lateen sails and a bank of oars. It might also be relatively small with only one mast, and be little more than a large chaloupe or launch.^[3]

A galiote a bombes was a French term for a galiote armed with a mortar and functioning as a bomb vessel,^[3] i.e., a vessel armed to shell coastal forts, towns, and the like.

Canal and river boats

• A galiote was a horse-drawn barge pulled along canals or rivers banks, which were popular in France from the mid-17th century through the 19th century.

• A galiote, or scute, also was a type of flat-bottomed boat with a simple sail that traveled French rivers transporting wine in the Anjou region as far as Les Ponts-de-Cé.^[4]

See also

• Flatboat
• Warship
• Chaika (boat)

Citations

References

• Carse, Philip (1959) The Age of Piracy. (Hale).
• Jonas, Wolfgang (1990). Nordfriesisches Schiffahrtsmuseum Husum (ed.). Schiffbau in Nordfriesland [Shipbuilding in North Frisia]. Schriftenreihe des Nordfriesischen Schiffahrtsmuseums Husum (in German). Vol. 1. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft. pp. 38–39.
  ISBN 3-88042-522-1
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• Poitrineau, Abel (1989) La Loire – les peuples du fleuve. (Ed. Horvath, Saint-Etienne).
• Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing).
  ISBN 9781848322042

• Pictures of a 1738 Baltic Sea galiot model High resolution photos

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