Lateen-rigged sailboats

thumb|A dhow in the Indian Ocean, near the islands of [[Zanzibar on the Swahili coast]] thumb|Fishermen's dhows moored at Dubai in 2014

thumb|right|Felucca on the Nile at Luxor

A xebec ( or ), also spelled zebec, was a Mediterranean sailing ship that originated in the barbary states (Algeria). It was used mostly for trading. Xebecs had a long overhanging bowsprit and aft-set mizzen mast. The term can also refer to a small, fast vessel of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, used almost exclusively in the Mediterranean Sea.

thumb|right|The lateen sail

thumb|right|A 19th-century engraving of a tartane. thumb|Diagram of a tartana, 1879 A tartane (also tartan, tartana) was a small ship used both as a fishing ship and for coastal trading in the Mediterranean. They were in use for over 300 years until the late 19th century. A tartane had a single mast on which was rigged a large lateen sail, and with a bowsprit and fore-sail. When the wind was aft a square sail was generally hoisted like a cross jack.

settee-rigged boat originating in Malta

300px|right|thumb|Maltese speronara flying the Flag and coat of arms of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta|Hospitaller flag as depicted in a 1778 painting by [[Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros]]

type of sailboat