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Speronare schip afkomstig uit Malta Spéronare Maltoise (titel op object) Voyage en Italie, en Sicile et à Malte - 1778 (serietitel), RP-T-00-493-66B

18th century painting of a Maltese speronara

A spéronare (Italian language: speronara , Maltese language: xprunara) was a type of small merchant craft in the Mediterranean in the 18th and 19th centuries. The vessels had no deck and only one mast, often with a lateen sail.[1] They were common in the trade between Malta and Sicily, though the French Navy occasionally built or acquired them, arming them and using them as gunboats. The Calypso-class spéronares Calypso and Nausicaa were examples.

See also[]

  • Gozo boat
Speronare (1826)

Rear view of an anchored British Royal Navy sloop, and two Maltese spéronares, one at anchor and one under sail, National Maritime Museum

Citations and references[]

Citations

  1. Winfield and Roberts (2015), p.42.

References

  • Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042
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