A galley was a type of ship which relied mostly on oars for propulsion that was used for warfare, trade, and piracy mostly in the seas surrounding Europe...
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A galley slave was a slave rowing in a galley, either a convicted criminal sentenced to work at the oar (French: galérien), or a kind of human chattel...
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Look up galley in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A galley is a ship or boat primarily powered by multiple sets of oars. Galley may also refer to: birlinn...
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Selly Galley, born 25 September 1987 as Selorm Galley is a Ghanaian actress and TV presenter. She was on Big Brother Africa (season 8). She is married...
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Galley proofs or galleys are so named because in the days of hand-set letterpress printing in the 1650s, the printer would set the page into "galleys"...
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John Edward Galley (born 7 May 1944) is an English former professional footballer who scored 149 goals from 409 games in the Football League playing as...
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The galley is the compartment of a ship, train, or aircraft where food is cooked and prepared. It can also refer to a land-based kitchen on a naval base...
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Adventure Galley, also known as Adventure, was an English merchant ship captained by Scottish sea captain William Kidd. She was a type of hybrid ship that...
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The Galley Islands are an archipelago off the northeast coast of Antigua. At the northeastern extremity of North Sound, north of Guiana Island, are the...
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Robert Galley (11 January 1921 – 8 June 2012) was a French politician and member of the Free French Forces during World War II, for which he received the...
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Garry Michael Galley (born April 16, 1963) is a Canadian broadcaster and former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League...
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HMS Charles Galley was a 32–gun fifth rate of the Royal Navy built at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1676. She was rebuilt in 1693, and again at Deptford...
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Galley (8 March 1948 – 1 July 2008) was an English guitarist, best known for his work with Whitesnake, Trapeze, Finders Keepers and Phenomena. Galley...
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"Galley Slave" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, originally published in the December 1957 issue of Galaxy; it was later...
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In arithmetic, the galley method, also known as the batello or the scratch method, was the most widely used method of division in use prior to 1600. The...
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The Ouzel Galley was an Irish merchant ship that set sail from Dublin in the late seventeenth century and was presumed lost with all hands when she failed...
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The Province Galley was a ketch commissioned by English colonial officials in the Province of Massachusetts Bay and launched on 1 June 1694. She was one...
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The Eric Thomas Galley Museum (also known as the Galley Museum) is a photographic and general museum in Driffield Street in Queenstown. One of two west...
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The Luxborough Galley was an English ship owned by the South Sea Company which in 1727 burnt, exploded and sank in the Atlantic Ocean. Twelve of the crew...
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Maurice Galley (10 August 1934 – February 2017) is an English former footballer who scored 5 goals from 55 appearances in the Football League playing as...
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The Galley Slave (1915 film) The Galley Slave (1919 film) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Galley Slave. If an internal...
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on a ship's galley. Around 1850, a British merchant service captain, Charles Noble, upon discovering that the stack of his ship's galley was made of copper...
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HMS Anne Galley was an 8-gun fire ship of the Royal Navy, launched in 1739 and in active service during the War of the Austrian Succession against Spain...
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Whydah Gally (redirect from Whydah Galley)
foremost London slave merchant of his day'. A square-rigged three-masted galley ship, she measured 110 feet (34 m) in length, with a tonnage rating at 300...
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James Martyn Galley (4 October 1944 – 4 October 2012) played first-class cricket for Somerset in three matches in the 1969 season. He also played in one...
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Galley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Garry Galley, former National Hockey League player Gordon Galley, English footballer Jim...
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Oared vessel tactics (redirect from Naval tactics in the age of galleys)
antiquity to the late 16th century when sailing ships began to replace galleys and other types of oared ships as the principal form of warships. Throughout...
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Lauren Marie Galley (born January 10, 1995), is a multi-media spokesperson, author and entrepreneur. In 2013, Galley published Girls Above Society: Steps...
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Venetian navy (redirect from Bastard galley)
narrow-beamed galley, derived from the trireme, which for a millienium was the principle ship of the Mediterranean. When not in use as warships, galleys were used...
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Real (Spanish for "Royal") was a Spanish galley and the flagship of Don John of Austria in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Real was built in Barcelona at...
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