"Ganj-i-Sawai - what kind of ship was she?" Topic
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| HarryHotspurEsq | 22 Dec 2014 7:03 a.m. PST |
Captured by Long Ben Every in 1695, and reputedly the richest prize ever taken, but what was she? |
| GGouveia | 22 Dec 2014 8:40 a.m. PST |
Wasn't it a galley type ship? |
| GGouveia | 22 Dec 2014 8:47 a.m. PST |
The Ganj-i-Sawai was a fearsome opponent, mounting 62 guns and a musket-armed guard of four to five hundred, as well as six hundred other passengers. Google is your friend- it just seems to say it was a heavily armed trading ship. I'd think it was a large galley ship. However paintings from the time show it was more of a European looking ship. |
| HarryHotspurEsq | 22 Dec 2014 8:48 a.m. PST |
All I can find is the statement that she was heavilly armed and a merchant vessel. Perhaps some kind of large dhow? |
| GGouveia | 22 Dec 2014 8:51 a.m. PST |
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| GGouveia | 22 Dec 2014 8:56 a.m. PST |
Here is a link with some pictures from the Portuguese of the ships encountered out east. |
| HarryHotspurEsq | 22 Dec 2014 2:11 p.m. PST |
Almost certain that she would not have been a galley in any conventional sense. |
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looks at the new U.S.S. Constitution for Black Seas.