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

Types of sailing vessels and rigs

Sailing rigs

Fore-and-aft rig Bermuda rig • Gaff rig * Junk rig• Lateen rig) * Mast aft rig
Square rig

By sail-plan

Multihull vessels

Naval & merchant
vessels
(by origin date)

Ancient	Boita Dhow Galley (Penteconter, Trireme, Dromon) Junk Uru

Medieval	Balinger Birlinn Chinese treasure ship Cog Hulk Knarr Koch Longship Shitik

15th c.	Carrack Caravel Hoy Trabaccolo

16th c.	Crommesteven Galiot Galleon Galleass Flyboat Fluyt Full-rigged pinnace Lorcha Man-of-war Patache Square rigged caravel (redonda or de armada) Xebec

17th c.	Bermuda sloop Corvette East Indiaman Frigate Galeas Koff Pinisi Polacca Ship of the line

18th c.	Bilander Clipper (Baltimore Clipper) Gundalow Seventy-four Sloop-of-war

19th c.	Blackwall Frigate Dutch clipper Windjammer

Fishing vessels

Recreational vessels

Special terms

Other

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