Galivat
A Galivat , also Gallivat or Gallevat , was a small, broadly built square - rigged ship with one or two masts and a shallow draft that could be moved with oars like a galley . It was used as a warship in the 17th and 18th centuries, especially on the west coast of India . The name probably comes from the Galeota of the Portuguese , which was similar to this type of ship.
The Galivat had a long, low, overhanging bow and a rectangular stern . It was light, fast and agile, about 10 meters long, 4 m wide and around 70 tons tall at the waterline . Larger Galivats came up to 120 tons. It had 30 to 40 oars , each of which was operated by only one man, a crew of about 60-80 men with handguns , and up to six two-to-four-pounder cannons . It was similar to the Ghurab , but it was much larger.
Ghurabs and Galivats were the predominant ship types in the Maratha Navy and among the pirates of the Malabar Coast . The Maratha admiral Konhoji Angre (1667-1729), who waged war against the Portuguese, Dutch and British all his life and was never defeated by them, operated with a fleet of 10 Ghurabs of up to 400 tons and 50 Galivats of up to 120 tons in size. The fleet set up by the British East India Company from 1612 to protect its maritime trade against attacks by the Portuguese and the many pirates also consisted largely of Galivats and Ghurabs, the majority of whose crews were Indian fishermen from the Konkan coast.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The name is said to live on in the English "jolly boat", but it can also have its roots in the northern European "dinghy".
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (P. 34)
literature
- Dionisius A. Agius: In the wake of the dhow: the Arabian Gulf and Oman , Garnet, Reading, 2002, ISBN 0-86372-259-8 , pp. 61-63
- Rear Admiral Satyindra Singh AVSM (Retd.): Under two Ensigns: The Indian Navy 1945-1950 , Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi / Bombay / Calcutta, 1985, pp. 33-34
Web links
- Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell: Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary. (First published 1886.) Wordsworth Editions, Cumberland House, Ware, Hertfordshire, 1996, ISBN 1-85326-363-X , p. 361
- John Ogilvie: The imperial dictionary of the English language. London, 1883