Galeas

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This article is about small trade ships. For the heavy military galleys, see Galleass. For the knight of the Round Table, see Galahad.

Ketch rigged galeas

The galeas is a small type of trade ship, which was common in the Baltic Sea and North Sea from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. The characteristics of the ships depend somewhat from where the ship originated. Swedish (and Finnish) versions had two masts and were rigged as ketchs, sometimes as schooners. The galeas was developed from the Dutch galliot, which was rigged in a similar way, but was equipped with a rounded stern. The Swedish galliot was sometimes called "Dutch hoy" or "English dogger". The galeas has a galliot's rig, but a square stern.

Finnish galeas Ihana with her sails down.

Sources

• Skonare (skonert), brigantin, brigg
• Nordisk familjebok
• 18th century galeas from Stettin, Germany High resolution photos of a model