Galleon vs. Carrack
Galleon and Carrack Definitions
Galleon
A large three-masted sailing ship with a square rig and usually two or more decks, used in the 1500s, 1600s, and 1700s, especially by Spain as a merchant ship or warship.
Carrack
A large sailing vessel with a high forecastle and poop, used from the 1300s to the 1500s.
Galleon
A large, three masted, square rigged sailing ship with at least two decks.
Carrack
(historical) A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.
Galleon
A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel.
The galleons . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castles.
Carrack
See Carack.
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Galleon
A large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries
Carrack
A large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman
