Spanish galleon
Colonial treasure vessel
A Spanish galleon was a large sailing ship used by Spain from the 16th through 18th centuries, primarily for transporting treasure from the Americas and for naval warfare.
These multi-decked vessels with distinctive high sterns and forecastles formed the backbone of Spain's colonial trade routes and military fleets.
The term evokes images of gold-laden ships crossing the Atlantic: Pirates preyed on Spanish galleons returning from the New World.
- treasureValued wealth or keepsake
- sunken treasureValuables on ocean floor
- treasure fleetShips transporting plundered wealth
- shipSeagoing transport vessel
- goldElement seventy-nine
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- shipsship, vessel, freighter, tanker, cargo ship
- sailing shipsclipper ship, schooner, brig, brigantine, bark
- treasure shipstreasure fleet, San Jose
Spanish galleonfrigate
Medium-sized naval warship
sloop · corvette · pinnace · clipper ship · schooner
Spanish galleonaircraft carrier
Warship with flight deck
nuclear submarine · container ship · supertanker · cruise ship · steamship
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