Galleon boat

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The galleon boat is considered to be the best and most typically Spanish vessel and began to be used in the sixteenth century, were powerful and powerful boats although they were quite slow, could be used both to battle and fight enemy countries to trade or transport goods, During the XIV and XV centuries, the proportions of the ships were obtained from the formula "three, two, ace", that is to say, triple length that the sleeve and this double that the strut. However, the galleon becomes a 4: 2: 1, its length shortened, as its sleeve and the boat used to not exceed 500 tons, although some reached close to 2,000, just as in the century XV the naos and the carracas replaced the medieval cocas, in the second half of the sixteenth century, the galleons had already begun to replace the naos and carracas.

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