felucca

Two feluccas on the Nile, Qubbet el-Hawa in the background

Feluccas on the Nile near Aswan

A felucca (also: Felucke or Feluka ; Arabic فلوكة, DMG Falūka ) is a small one- or two-masted coastal vehicle of the Mediterranean . These merchant ships, rigged with set sails (similar to the Latin sail or the Vela Latina ), also sail the Nile . The felucca is still sailed in Egypt . Feluccas were formerly used as war and pirate ships in the form of small galley-like ships . Muslim corsairs equipped their feluccas with three to five row benches in the 18th century and used them as the smallest units of their pirate fleets.

Web links

Commons : Feluccas - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Felucca - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Feluccas. Entry in the Lexicon of Maritime Terms at Modellskipper.de
The felucca. Lexicon entry at Griffith Institute (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Marianne Strzysch, Joachim White: The Brockhaus in fifteen volumes. Fourth volume: Eis-Fra. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig and Mannheim 1997, ISBN 3 7653 2841 3 , p. 303.
↑ Andreas Kammler: Pirates! The manual of the unknown facts and the most beautiful anecdotes. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978 3 596 17813 1 , p. 260.

[1] Marianne Strzysch, Joachim White: The Brockhaus in fifteen volumes. Fourth volume: Eis-Fra. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig and Mannheim 1997, ISBN 3 7653 2841 3 , p. 303.

[2] Andreas Kammler: Pirates! The manual of the unknown facts and the most beautiful anecdotes. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978 3 596 17813 1 , p. 260.