Hard in her wake came three merchant galleys crammed to their load lines with lumber from the Teizen mills.

It may be your palate will be some help to Cotter Pyke when merchant galleys come trading.

It is, however, recorded as having been faster than the Venetian great merchant galleys accompanying it, possibly indicating that it was a light war galley.

It was a merchant galley under full sail, heading for the Gates and the open sea.

The galleass (known as a "mahon" in Turkey) developed from large merchant galleys.

That day, on the sea to eastward of middle Hyperborea, the crews of certain merchant galleys beheld an unheard-of thing.

Most of the surviving documentary evidence comes from Greek and Roman shipping, though it is likely that merchant galleys all over the Mediterranean were highly similar.

Inheriting the Byzantine ship designs, the new merchant galleys were similar dromons, but without any heavy weapons and both faster and wider.

In the 14th and 15th centuries merchant galleys traded high-value goods and carried passengers.

"A merchant galley is waiting at San Marco to take her to the East."