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Armed xebec, Spanish or Arab, of eighteenth and seventeenth centuries

Forbes and Clark Collections Visualizing Maritime History Project

Sideview of an armed xebec of the Mediterranean, which carried from fourteen to twenty-two guns on one deck, with small ports for oars between each gun. Illustration from Old Sea Wings, Ways, and Words, in the Days of Oak and Hemp by Robert C. Leslie (1890)

vessel type depiction
1890-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Leslie, Robert C.
ink; paper
3 1/2 in x 7 in
England: London