But it was soon seen that he was keeping away, steering southward into the open sea, with his division trailing after him in a long line, the galleasses that should have been out in front coming slowly up behind the squadron.
It was intended that the galleys of the left, centre, and right should form one long line, with the six galleasses well out in front of them, two before each division.
The reserve was only issuing from the channel behind Cape Scropha, and Doria was leading the right division into line, with his two galleasses working up astern, where their artillery would be useless.
Once they closed up, and a few shots were exchanged with the galleasses in Recalde's rearguard.
To give a list of their names and of the commanders of galleasses and galleys and detachments of troops embarked would be to draw up a roll of the historic names of Italy and Spain.
The six galleasses represented a new type, a link between the oared ships of the past and the sailing fleets of the immediate future.
It seems to have so impressed the English onlookers that the four galleasses are given quite an unmerited importance in some of the popular narratives of the war.
The gallant Leyva came back to the rescue with three galleasses and some ships, whereupon Howard towed up to assist Hawkins.
The position of the galleassesis a little uncertain.
After a sharp encounter, Leyva rescued the San Luis, but the galleasses were very roughly handled.
A group of English ships drifted apart from their main body, and in the bright moonlight the oared galleasses might have attacked them; but Captain-General Monçada was sulking over a fancied slight, and would not move.
The galleon had no oars at all, as the hybrid galleasses had, and it gained more in sail power than it lost by dropping oars.
But seeing the capitana of the renowned Italian galleasses in distress near Calais, he became a medieval knight again, left his fleet, and took the galleasse.
The English would be less able to move, and with the help of the galleasses he might hope to come to close quarters at last.
The Duke thought of nothing, but at midnight the Spanish officers stirred him out of his sleep to urge him to set his great galleasses to work; now was their chance.
Two of thegalleasses came to her assistance and tried to take her in tow, but the waves were running so high that the cable broke.
One hundred and sixty galleys were at once commenced, together with eight galleasses of the largest size.
The six powerfulgalleasses were posted like redoubts at intervals in front of the lines of galleys.
But they had no large galleasses with powerful armaments to compare with those of the Spaniards.
The fleet consisted of two hundred galleys and six powerfulgalleasses with heavy armaments.
The Christian fleet was slower in falling into line; some of the galleys and most of the galleasses were behindhand.
Doria has fifty in the right wing; Barbarigo of Venice fifty-three in the left; Don Alvaro de Bazan commands the reserve of thirty galleys: the galleasses are ranged before the lines, each with five hundred arquebusiers on board.
Venetian galleasses as used at the battle of Lepanto, to the winning of which engagement they are said to have contributed materially.
House of Lords, of one of the galleasses of the fleet.
The great galleons and galleasses of Spain towered beside the English ships like "Flemish dray horses beside light Arabian coursers.
A small galleon of Portugal called the Saint Anne being unable to keep pace with the rest of the fleet was set upon by a number of small English craft, seeing which three of the great galleasses rowed furiously to her aid.
After this time the galleasses would not fight again.
The four galleasses stationed well in front of the Christian battle line opened an effective fire at close quarters on the foremost Turkish galleys as they swept past.
In front of each squadron of the line two Venetian galleasses were to take station in order to break up the formation of the Turkish advance.
The Venetian galleasses deserve special mention because they attracted considerable attention by the part they subsequently played in the action.
Most of the time on the cruise these galleasses had to be towed in order to keep up with the rest of the fleet.
These ships were the property of the State, and in due time a public crier announced the number of galleasses ready for the annual voyages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "galleasses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
