Chapter GALLEVAT of G by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

deux et trois cens hommes de guerre, et en d’autres grandes Galiotes, qu’ils nomment Fregates, il y en peut cent.…”— Pyrard de Laral, ii. 72; [Hak. Soc. ii. 118].

[1665.—“He gave a sufficient number of galiotes to escort them to sea.”—Tavernier, ed. Ball, i. 193.]

1689.—“He embarked about the middle of October in the year 1542, in a galiot, which carried the new Captain of Comorin.” —Dryden, Life of Xavier. (In Works, ed. 1821, xvi. 87.)

e. Gallevat.

1613.—“Assoone as I anchored I sent Master Molineux in his Pinnasse, and Master Spooner, and Samuell Squire in my Gellywatte to sound the depths within the sands.”—Capt. N. Downton, in Purchas, i. 501. This illustrates the origin of Jolly-boat.

[1679.—“I know not how many Galwets.” —In Hedges, Diary. Hak. Soc. ii. clxxxiv.]

1717.—“Besides the Salamander Fireship, Terrible Bomb, six Galleywatts of 8 guns, and 60 men each, and 4 of 6 guns and 50 men each.”—Authentic and Faithful History of that Arch-Pyrate Tulajee Angria (1756), p. 47.

c. 1760.—“Of these armed boats called Gallevats, the Company maintains also a competent number, for the service of their marine.”—Grose, ii. 62.

1763.—“The Gallevats are large row-boats, built like the grab, but of smaller dimensions, the largest rarely exceeding 70 tons; they have two masts … they have 40 or 50 stout oars, and may be rowed four miles an hour.”—Orme, i. 409.

[1813.—“… here they build vessels of all sizes, from a ship of the line to the smallest grabs and gallivats, employed in the Company’s services.”—Forbes. Or Mem. 2nd ed. i. 94–5.]

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