A xebec (/ ˈ z iː b ɛ k / or / z ɪ ˈ b ɛ k /), also spelled zebec, was a Mediterranean sailing ship that was used mostly for trading. Xebecs had a long overhanging bowsprit and aft-set mizzen mast.

Dec 28, 2024 · xebec (plural xebecs) A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern. [from mid 18th c.]

Jun 30, 2019 · On the Barbary coast the xebec rig was deemed to vary from the felucca, which in hull is the same, by having the foremast square-rigged. The xebec, or chebeck, originated in the western Mediterranean during the seventeenth century. The name stems from the Arabic sabak.

A xebec, also spelled zebec, was a Mediterranean sailing ship that was used mostly for trading. Xebecs had a long overhanging bowsprit and aft-set mizzen mast. ...

"xebec" published on by null. A small three-masted vessel of the 16th–19th centuries which originated in the Mediterranean. It is similar in many respects to a polacre but with a distinctive hull which had a pronounced overhanging bow and stern.

The xebec ship (maritime-museum) The xebec is not a single design of ship, but rather a family of small vessels. Essentially, it is a development of the galley with a narrow hull, and prominent beak or head, perhaps derived from the ram, and outer platform extending over the rudder aft …

A xebec (/ˈziːbɛk/ or /zɪˈbɛk/), also spelled zebec, was a Mediterranean sailing ship that was used mostly for trading. Xebecs had a long overhanging bowsprit and aft-set mizzen mast. The term can also refer to a small, fast vessel of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, used almost exclusively in the Mediterranean Sea.

Jul 14, 2010 · A xebec (pronounced /ˈziːbɛk/ or /zɨˈbɛk/), also spelt zebec, was a Mediterranean sailing ship that was used mostly for trading. It would have a long overhanging bowsprit and protruding mizzenmast.

A xebec, also spelled chebec, chebeck, jabeque, sciabecco, shebec, xebeque, and zebec, was a small, fast, three mast (but originally two mast) vessel of the 16th to 19th centuries, used almost exclusively in the Mediterranean Sea, with a distinctive hull, which added a pronounced overhanging bow and stern, and rarely displacing more than 200 ...

Dec 22, 2021 · By the 18th and early-19th centuries, a large xebec would have a square rig on the foremast, but lateen sails on the others. Xebecs were infamously used by corsairs (pirates) in the Mediterranean. Some xebecs could accommodate crews up to 400 and as many as 24 guns.