The Venetians had reached the Summit in shipbuilding, especially in the construction of galleys. The medieval galleys, the backbone of the Navy of the Republic of Venice, were long and 40 meters 7. The oars were the vulnerable flanks and then galleys preferred a bit on the side opposing ships for oars and splitting the hull and then abbordarle, Venetian ships were also famous for their huge bills. In 400 galleys carried two breech-loading pieces called coils, and a galley even experimented with a big bomb, but your mouth from fire is overheated and exploded. In the sixteenth century the galleys were armed with a 60-Pounder anti gun ship with a maximum range of three kilometers and 17 antipersonnel mouths. However, in spite of the war potential of these ships the boarders continued to be the main strategy, first for the trouble of pointing (it was necessary to rotate the entire ship); in essence the guns fired a salvo, and then the crew threw at boarding. Later the Venetians began to develop a new kind of ship: the galleass. It was initially built a quinquereme (i.e. 5 rows of oars), the largest wooden ship ever built after the dexeris (to 10 orders) in Rome. 74 metres long and 11 metres wide, was unwieldy, then was slimmed down to become 50-60 meters long and 10-15 metres wide and was armed with eight guns positioned on castles and on the sides, and several smaller cannons. The Ottoman Empire, aimed at the conquest of Europe, had a military fleet, certainly worthy of Christian Marines. The greatest battle that saw involved a Turkish fleet is certainly the battle of Lepanto (1571). The Christian fleet was organized on a Center and two wings (independent type). Decisive was the insuperable bulwark constituted of six galleasses blinds in the middle of the grid, which with their cannons (mounted in hunting) broke the Ottoman fleet approaching. It should be noted that the battle of Lepanto was the last major naval battle fought exclusively with rowing boats. At Lepanto 6 galleasses, acting as Hannibals elephants, penetrated into the Turkish lines sinking 60 galleys. On that occasion the Christian ships, including the galleasses, were equipped with antiarrembaggio, which nets mounted on small catapults or thrown more men, intrappolavavano the opposing infantry. (Text taken from: it.wikipedia.org-in the image reconstruction of a fine Venetian galley at the Venice Naval History Museum). (Translated by Bing)
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:17:04 +0000
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