page_title: Catalan navy
section_title: Catalan galleys fleet
hierarchical_section_title: Catalan navy / Catalan galleys fleet
caption_attribution_description: Galley, Maltese, by the Order of the Knights of St. John, wooden ship model from the Museo Storico Navale di Venezia (Naval History Museum) in Venice, Italy.
context_page_description: The Catalan navy - with Catalan ships, Catalan admirals and Catalan crew - under the direct or indirect orders of the counts of Barcelona, represented a reality recognized by the entire Mediterranean from its origins to Fernando the Catholic. In later times ships built and manned on the Catalan coasts, under the authority of non-Catalan kings, for example the kings of Naples, carried out some important events.
  Similarly, the navies of the kingdoms of Mallorca and Valencia had their own entity and could be studied separately
context_section_description: The Catalan galley (formerly galea), has its own entity with respect to the galleries of the other maritime nations (referenced from the s. XIII), since Corominas provides a reference to a Catalan galley from the year 1120 (100 years earlier than the other countries). It was a type of warship and trade ship, powered entirely by the power of oars and sometimes by the wind, thanks to the presence of masts with their sails (usually Latin).
  At least as of the 12th century, the Catalans built the "Catalan galleys", making extensive use of them for wars with the different maritime republics (as enemies or as allies) or for trade with most Mediterranean ports, guaranteeing trade routes with Catalan consulates. Its use began to decline from the seventeenth century, when they were progressively replaced by sailboats, finally becoming extinct in the late eighteenth century .
caption: Maltese galley, Catalan style
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