Galiot
Image:DonAntonioBarcelóConSuJabequeCorreoRindeADosGaleotasArgelinas.jpg|thumb|The Spanish xebec of Antonio Barceló fighting two Algerian galiotes
[Image:Galiote.jpg|thumb|A Dutch galiot from Willaumez's Dictionnaire de la Marine in the 17th century]
A galiot, galliot or galiote, was a small galley boat propelled by sail or oars. There are three different types of naval galiots that sailed on different seas.
A galiote was a type of French flat-bottom river boat or barge and also a flat-bottomed boat with a simple sail for transporting wine.
Naval vessels
Mediterranean North Sea- '''Naval ships '''
Canal and river boats
- A galiote was a horse-drawn barge pulled along canals or rivers banks, which were popular in France from the mid-17th century through the 19th century.
- A galiote, or scute, also was a type of flat-bottomed boat with a simple sail that traveled French rivers transporting wine in the Anjou region as far as Les Ponts-de-Cé.
General and cited references
- Carse, Philip. The Age of Piracy. Hale.
- Poitrineau, Abel. La Loire – les peuples du fleuve. Ed. Horvath, Saint-Etienne.
- Winfield, Rif & Stephen S. Roberts. French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing..