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GALLEY (derived through the 0. Fr. galee, galie, from the Med. Lat. galea, Ital. galea, Port. gale, of uncertain origin; from the Med. Lat. variant form galera are derived the Mod. Fr. galere, Span. and Ital. galera)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 418 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GALLEY (derived through the 0. Fr. galee, galie, from the Med. Lat. galea, Ital. galea, Port. gale, of uncertain origin; from the Med. Lat. variant form galera are derived the Mod. Fr. galere, Span. and Ital. galera) , a long single or half decked vessel of war, with low free-board, propelled primarily by oars or sweeps, but also having masts for sails. The word is used generally of the ancient war vessels of
Greece
  and Rome of various types, whose
chief
  propelling power was the oar or sweep, but its more specific application is to the medieval war vessel which survived in the navies of the Mediterranean sea-powers after the general adoption of the larger many-decked ship of war, propelled solely by sail-power. Lepanto (1571) was the last
great
  naval battle in which. the galley played the principal part. The " galleass" or " galliass " (Med. Lat. galeasea, Ital. galeazza, an augmented form of galea) was a larger and heavier form of galley; it usually carried three masts and had at bow and stern a castellated structure. The " galliot " (0. Fr. galiot, Span. and Port. galeota, Ital. galeotta, a diminutive of galea) was a small light type of galley. The " galleon " (formerly in English " galloon," Fr. gallon, derived from the Med. Lat. galio, galionis, a derivative of galea) was a sailing ship of war and
trade
 , shorter than the galley and
standing
  high out of the water with several decks, chiefly used by the Spaniards during the 16th century in the carrying of treasure from America. The number of oars or sweeps varied, the larger galley having twenty-five on each side; the galleass as many as thirty-two, each being worked by several men. This labour was from the earliest times often performed by slaves or prisoners of war. It became the custom among the Mediterranean- powers to sentence condemned criminals to row in the war galleys of the state. Traces of this in France can be found as early as 1532, but the first legislative enactment is in the Ordonnance d'Orleans of 1561. In 1564 Charles IX. forbade the sentencing of prisoners to the galleys for less than ten years. The galley-slaves were branded with the letters GAL. At the end of the reign of Louis XIV. the use of the galley for war purposes had practically ceased, but the corps of the galleys was not incorporated with the navy till 1748. The headquarters of the galleys and of the convict rowers (galeriens) was at Marseilles. The
majority
  of these latter were brought to Toulon, the others were sent to Rochefort and B rest, where they were used for
work
 
1 Du Cange, Glossarium, s.v. " Galeria," suggests an origin from galena, a galley, on the analogy of
nave
 ," from navis, the galley being a long and narrow ship; but, he adds, alii olio opinantur.
II
in the arsenal. At Toulon the convicts remained (in chains) on the galleys, which were moored as hulks in the harbour. Shore prisons were, however, provided for them, known as bagnes, baths, a name given to such penal establishments first by the Italians (bagno), and said to have been derived from the prison at
Constantinople
  situated close by or attached to the
great
  baths there. The name galerien was still given to all convicts, though the galleys had been abandoned, and it was not till the French Revolution that the hated name with all it signified was changed to forcat. In Spain galera is still used for a criminal condemned to penal servitude.
A vivid account of the life of galley-slaves in France is given in Jean Marteilhes's Memoirs of a
Protestant
 , translated by Oliver Goldsmith (new edition, 1895), which describes the experiences of one of the Huguenots who suffered after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.


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