Pirate ships

thumb|upright=1.35|Colourised engraving of a French galley (27 pairs of oars) built according to the design that was standard in the Mediterranean from the early 17th century; Henri Sbonski de Passebon, 1690|alt=A two-masted ship with several sails set A galley is a type of ship optimised for propulsion by oars. Galleys were historically used for warfare, trade, and piracy mostly in the seas surrounding Europe. It developed in the Mediterranean world during antiquity and continued to exist in various forms until the early 19th century. It typically had a long, slender hull, shallow draft, and

type of vessel typically of Southeast Asian or East Asian origin

thumb|Lewis R. French (schooner)|Lewis R. French, a gaff-rigged schoonerthumb|Oosterschelde (ship)|Oosterschelde, a topsail schooner thumb|Orianda, a staysail schooner, with Bermuda mainsail

thumb|The South Shields collier brig Mary, painted by John Scott in 1855, showing two views of the same vessel. A [[Bentinck boom is fitted to the foot of the fore-course as a labour saving device when tacking.]] thumb|A small trading brig entering the River Avon, Bristol|Bristol Avon, painted by Joseph Walter A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the latter part of the 19th century. In commercial use, they

A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). The main mast is the second and taller of the two masts.

thumb|A Bermuda sloop, the most common version of the sloop in modern sailing vessels thumb|Gaff rigged sloop, 1899

thumb|Three-masted barque (United States Revenue Cutter Service|US Revenue Cutter Salmon P. Chase, 1878–1907) thumb|Three-masted barque sail plan

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|The Spanish xebec of [[Antonio Barceló (center) fighting two Algerian galiotes (1738)]] thumb|A Dutch galiot from Willaumez's Dictionnaire de la Marine in the 17th century thumb|250px|18th century half galleys. A galiot, galliot or galiote, was a small galley boat propelled by sail or oars. There are three different types of naval galiots that sailed on different seas.

pirate Blackbeard's ship

sailing vessel with three or more masts, all of them square-rigged

type of ship in use in the 16th and 17th centuries

type of fishing vessel like a bomschuit. double-ender, symmetrical-ended watercraft

thumb|Portuguese fusta from a book by Jan Huygen van Linschoten

thumb|Baghlah sailing thumb|The ornate stern of a baghlah in Kuwait A baghlah, bagala, bugala or baggala () is a large deep-sea dhow, a traditional Arabic sailing vessel. The name "baghla" means "mule" in the Arabic language.

A polacca (or polacre) is a type of seventeenth- to nineteenth-century sailing vessel.

sailed cargo vessel

London slave ship captured by pirate Samuel Bellamy

19th century diplomatic crisis

thumb|The Balatik of the Tao Expedition of Palawan, a reconstruction of a large sailing [[paraw, which is essentially a typical Visayan balangay with large double outriggers. It is gaff rigged, which is European.]] thumb|The balangay Sultan sin Sulu in Maimbung, Sulu. These replicas are meant to recreate the Butuan boats, but are inaccurate in that they do not have outriggers or Austronesian rigs.

thumb|1890 illustration by Rafael Monleón of a late 19th-century Iranun lanong warship with three banks of oars under full sail thumb|Sketch of a lanong used by Sulu pirates with a boarding platform () Lanong were large outrigger warships used by the Iranun and the Banguingui people of the Philippines. They could reach up to in length and had two biped shear masts which doubled as boarding ladders. They also had one to three banks of oars rowed by galley slaves. They were specialized for naval battles. They were prominently used for piracy and slave raids from the mid-18th century to the early

thumb|Pencalang (mislabelled as Mayang (boat)|mayang) at full sail, Java, 1841 Pencalang is a traditional merchant ship from Nusantara. Historically it was also written as pantchiallang or pantjalang. It was originally built by Malay people from the area of Riau and the Malay Peninsula, but has been copied by Javanese shipwrights. By the end of the 17th century this ship has been built by Javanese and Chinese shipbuilders in and around Rembang. However it was a popular choice for Balinese skippers followed by Sulawesian skippers.

A barca-longa (1600s, also barqua-; 1600s–1700s barco-longo) was a two- or three-masted lugger used near the coasts of Spain and Portugal, and more widely in the Mediterranean Sea. Barca-longas were used in Spain and Portugal for fishing, and were employed by the Royal Navy in Mediterranean waters for shore raids or as dispatch boats. In general, they were not in Royal Navy ownership. The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest reference is from 1681.

type of sailboat

English sailing ship captained by William Kidd

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]]

Large-sized kora-kora or karakoa

1690s ship

A type of coasting boat from Southeast Asia

traditional native warships of the Banguingui people in the Philippines