What Was the Galleon Used For?
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- Опубліковано 27 січ 2022
- The galleon was predominantly and transport warship designed to transport high value cargo from overseas back to Europe in harsh competition with pirates and privateers from other nations.
The galleon was the ship type of the Spanish treasure fleets that brought gold back from the Americas.
If you have ever seen a pirate movie the ship are galleons.
The galleon was developed from the carrack, but had a much lower and sleeker profile and was a faster and more manuverable ship than its predecessor.
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Good videos as always. I really, really love galleons.
Sorry to correct you, but the ships in Magellan's expedition were naos
No need to be sorry. You are quite correct that Magellan's ships were naos. It is I who have made a blunder.
I'm sorry but I need to correct the information you gave here.
The galleon was a development from the nau, developed by the Portugueseses to control the indic ocean.
Also the Portugueseses were the first to put cannons on both sides of the ships.
The Galleon was a ship invented from 1518, by the Portuguese as a weapon to give a proper answer to the Indias Career, to the big ships coming from India full of very valuable cargo. There are records of the powerful Portuguese Galleon Sao Joao Baptista in 1535 leading the attack of the Christian Armada to Tunez, which proves that only the Portuguese has such a powerful ships on that date.
In a leaflet written in the time of King D. João III, it is said that its keel was the length and a half of the largest ship in India. The number of people he transported to the capture of Goleta could also be used to judge the extraordinary dimensions of this ship, truly extraordinary for that time. In addition to the crew, which would have been very numerous to be able to sail a similar ship, it took on board 600 musketeers, 400 men with swords and rodelas, and 300 artillerymen. In addition to including 366 bronze pieces.
As historians point out, this galleon had a steel tackle on the beck, with which, in the second attack, it broke the iron chain with which the moors closed the entrance to the port of Goleta. There is even Tapestry of the series The Conquest of Tunis designed by Jan Cornelis Vermeyen & woven by Wilhelm de Pannemaker in 1549-1551, in there we can see the Galleon St John Baptist nicknamed Bota Fogo "Set Fire".
It is undeniable that the aforementioned galleon, to which the people gave the name "Bota Fogo" due to the great amount of fire vomited from itself, rendered great service in that memorable action, not only due to the activity of its fire, but also because it was directed in a superior position, which was the cavalier of the other ships of the fleet and of the port's own batteries.
This galleon was built in Portas do Mar, one of the navy arsenals in Lisbon, by master João Gallego; which began on August 29, 1533, and which, employing 230 workers in its construction, launched into the sea on June 24 of the following year.
In other words, at least since 1534 we have evidence that galleons were already being built in Portugal.
The fact that Charles V of Habsburg, the emperor of Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, part of France and Italy, as well as king of Spain, specifically asked the king of Portugal for the Galleon St John Baptist to lead the attack to Tunez in 1535, demonstrates that only Portugal had such a powerful ship and only Portugal had galleons.
There are reports of the construction of Portuguese galleons since 1518 and in Spain just seven decades later. England only built its first galleon 100 years later.
Indestructible, they were made with a stone wheel, that was hundred or more feet across, which is evidenced by the deck's curve.... at least in paintings....there is one thzt still is drifting around the carribean, rotted away, and covered with barnacles ... Dutch East India Company used these a lot, so did Blackzbeard I think
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Spain?!...Caravels, Carracks and Galleons were made by Portugal...
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Please use brain before saying dumb sheet!
Many countries have Leopard 2 tanks, but they were made by the Germans.
@@lino222 dude. That's uncalled for. Don't bloody say that to them.
@lino222 No country is named specifically as the developer of the Galleon, Spain is only mentioned as the nation most associated with the Galleon, which is very true. 0:20
@@CmdTomalak255-gu1yp meaning that "marketing" provided by hollywood movies is an historical fact?
Can you tell me what were the ships used by Colombus to reach the America's at the service of Spain? Portuguese ships, caravels and carrack...
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I love your videos, but this one struck a jarring note. You mentioned, right at the end, almost the last sentence, that the galleon was responsible for '...ushering in an age of stabilised oceanic trade.'
What outstanding rubbish! We are talking about the period from the 16th century to the mid-18th century. Oceanic trade was stabilised long before that, and the Pax Arabica led to a period of very stable commercial growth and development that saw the most intense activity between Zanzibar on the east African coast and Malacca in Malaya (today, Malaysia) and the entire littoral of that arc.
If anything, the incursion of the Portuguese, and, behind them, the rest of the Europeans, disrupted this peaceful free trade zone, where people could travel freely without paperwork, merchants had to pay port officials but were thereafter free, and trade and commerce allowed spice from Zanzibar and from the other reputed Spice Islands, in the Moluccas in Indonesia, to be aggregated and traded through Arabia and Turkey.
Even the advent of the galleon did nothing much for stabilised oceanic trade, since the Portuguese were predatory by nature, and habitually preyed on shipping traffic wherever they were, in the littoral from Zanzibar and further south, in Mozambique, reaching peaks in the Arabian Sea and centred around their possessions in Goa.
Your conclusion was misleading due to its Eurocentricity, and deserves to be condemned for creating an illusion of peaceful expansion of trade and commerce when in reality, it was the opposite.
Stabilised is not meant as peaceful, but does mean stabilised as control was left with does that could mount galleons. I do state at the very beginning of the video that the galleon was made for war. Just like any of the many pax (Romana or Arabica) merely means that one party has gained full control. And yes the Portuguese preyed on others like any who gain the upper hand preys on others. However none of the early European naval powers would have been able to establish themselves on land around the Indian Ocean, had there not been someone willing to trade and collaborate with them.