Ship designs of the Spanish Empire

thumb|The Italian Navy frigate Carlo Bergamini in 2011 thumb|The Royal Navy frigate HMS Pallas in three positions

thumb|200px|Model of a Portuguese caravel, found in the Musée national de la Marine

thumb|right|upright=1.5|A Spanish galleon (left) firing its cannons at a Dutch warship (right). Cornelis Verbeeck, c. 1618–1620 thumb|right|Portuguese galleon Padre Eterno thumb|right|Carracks, galleon (center/right), square rigged caravel (below), galley and fusta (galliot) depicted by D. João de Castro on the "Suez Expedition" (part of the Portuguese Armada of 72 ships sent against the Ottoman fleet at anchor in Suez, Egypt, in response to its entry in the Indian Ocean and the siege of Diu in 1538) — Tábuas da India in the João de Castro's Roteiro do Mar Roxo (Routemap of the Red Sea) of 154

thumb|right|300px|The Portuguese carrack Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai and other ships, painting by [[Joachim Patinir. The voyage of Infanta Beatriz, second daughter of King Manuel of Portugal, to Villefranche for her marriage to Charles III, Duke of Savoy, in 1521.]] thumb| painting of a large carrack attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder

thumb|right|Traditional fishing pirogue (a lakana (boat)|lakana [[outrigger canoe) with sail from Madagascar]] thumb|right|Group of pirogues at sunset on the river bank of Don Tati, Si Phan Don, Laos thumb|right|Pirogues of Madagascar thumb |Pirogues, Niger thumb|right|A pirogue on the Niger River in [[Mali]] thumb| Statuette Karajà - Brazil - MHNT A pirogue ( or ), also called a piragua or piraga, is any of various small boats, particularly dugouts and canoes. The word is French and is derived from the Spanish piragua , which comes from the Carib ''''.

thumb|A galleass of the 1588 Spanish Armada

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.

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