Xebec Pirate Ship Models

Xebec Pirate Ship Models. This vessel contributed the lanteen sail to evolution of the Sail Ship. The three masted Xebec with its lateen sails was used for centuries in the Mediterranean as a merchant ship because of its speed and shallow draught. It was not long before Corsairs, the pirates of the Mediterranean, decided on the Xebec as their vessel of choice for lighting fast attacks on heavier ladened merchant ships. Possibly the perfect Pirate ship, with its fourteen cannons slug low in the waists, the Xebec would hole her prey just inchs above the waterline making escape impossible. This Pirate ship Xebec was also made famous by the the bookRobinson Crusoe. This rare find is meticulously decorated and beautifully stained. This Xebec pirate ship models is 35 (long) x 27 (tall) x 7 (wide) inches. Approximate conversions 1 centimeter = 0.394 inch or 1 inch = 2.54 centimeter