Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Fig. 73.—The Coque.—From a Miniature in a Manuscript Virgil of the Fifteenth Century(Eiccardi Library, Florence). the English. The King, desirous of inspecting it, boarded it on the eve ofits departure, accompanied by a numerous and brilliant court. A collationhad been prepared for him and his suite, the band was playing, saluteswere thundering out in his honour, and he himself was in the midst of hisinspection of the floating citadel, when suddenly cries of alarm were heard.A fire had broken out between decks; it burnt with astonishing rapidity,and, before help could be efficiently rendered, the whole of the rigging wasin flames. In a few hours all that remained of the Great Carack was animmense hull, half consumed, aground on the beach, upon which the seawas casting up the corpses of those of the crew who were killed by the dis-charge of its cannons during the progress of the conflagration.
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The galliot occupied an intermediate place between the ship properly socalled and the large galley. It was, in fact, a slighter vessel, longer andnarrower in the beam than all other kinds of ships. Galliots were sometimes, NAVAL MATTERS. 81 but not often, propelled by oars (Fig. 76). The ordinary build of galliot,whose poop consisted of two rounded quarter circles, separated by therudder-post, had two decks; the largest of all had three. Two remarkablegalliots are mentioned in history, one of which was an exact model of thecelebrated Great Carack. It was built at Venice to carry three hundredguns and five hundred soldiers, besides its own crew of sailors, but whilestill in the lagoons it was caught in a tremendous hurricane. Being severelytossed by the wind and the waves, its rolls threw the whole of its heavyordnance to the port-side, and, being unable to right itself, it turned over,and went down in sight of the town.

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