Word: galeass
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...SHIP, by Björn Landström (309 pp.; Doubleday; $14.95). For most boys and a few fortunate men, among life's compelling questions are the position of the guns of Nelson's Victory, the difference between a galleon and a galeass, and the vexing matter of how oars were banked on biremes. With authoritative information or thoughtful supposition, Author Landström deals with such matters in a magnificent history of man's water conveyances, from the dugout to the nuclear submarine. The handsome sectional and perspective drawings...
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