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]]
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]]
The speronara (, ) was a small merchant ship originating in Malta that was used in the Mediterranean Sea from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. The vessels usually had no deck and only one mast, often with a lateen or spritsail. Some larger vessels had a half deck or up to three masts.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).