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Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Ragusan ships in Spanish navy, towns Kolocepa and Lopuda

In his article dealing with Ragusan ships serving in the Spanish Armada of 1588, De Courcy Ireland referred to the important role of Ragusan ships in Spanish naval service. The friar Dediserio Nenchi made in 1654 a list of the 178 Ragusan ships lost in Spanish service in the period 1584-1654. His list is far from complete while for instance ships sunk near Mljet, Lastovo and other places were not included. Dr. Hrvoje Tartalja wrote that the ships lost in the fleet of the governors Martolosic and Mažibradic in the war of 1653 against the France and the Dutch Republic also were excluded. I wasn't able to see the manuscript in the British Museum ADD.MS. 14,008 titled Dominio, Sito e Costumi della Republica di Ragusa, dated around 1622. The Museum didn't respond to my requests for a copy of it.

I suppose karaka can probably be translated as carrack. I already translated in the text below galijun as galleon. A kola is a indication of the ships' measure of volume. I haven't been able yet to find the equivalent in West European terms. De Courcy Ireland mentioned the carro which was smaller as a ton, for instance 1100 carrie was the equivalent of 740 tons. I found in a table dealing with old weights, measurements and so on that a carro was a dry and liquid measure used in Italy.
Kolocepa
Gospa od Ružuraija, karaka, captain Vodopija, 750 kola
Sv. Rajmund, galleon, captain Vodopija, 600 kola
Sv. Franjo, nav, captain Vodopija, 360 kola

Sv. Josip, nav, captain Vodopija, 350 kola
Sv. Toma, nav, captain Vodopija, 400 kola
Sveti Spasitelj, nav, captain Rusko, 250 kola
Gospa od Loreta, galleon, captain Stjepo, 500 kola

Lopuda
Sveti Križ, nav, captain Balaš (Ballachi, 450 kola
Sv. Jakov, karaka, captain Pracat, 750 kola
Sv. Katarina, karaka, captain Pracat, 950 kola
Sv. Nikola, karaka, captain Pracata, 700 kola
Sv. Vinko,karaka, captain Martosic, 800 kola
Sv. Dominik, galleon, captain Martosic, 500 kola
Sv. Vlaho, karaka, captain Batic, 750 kola
Sv. Nikola, karaka, captain Batic, 800 kola
Sv. Franjo, nav, captain Valadsi?, 450 kola
Sv. Pavao, nav, captain Valadsi, 400 kola
Ime Božje, karaka, captain Nikola Radulovic, 900 kola
Sv. Antun Padovanski, nav, captain N. Radulovic, 400 kola
Sv. Lucija, galleon, captain Giorvi (Guric?), 500 kola
Sv. Cecilija, galleon, captain Guric, 600 kola
Presveto Trojstvo, nav, captain Ivan Radov, 450 kola
Sv. Katarina, galleon, captain Ivan Radov, 500 kola
Sv. Antun Padovanski, galleon, captain Antun Radišic, 500 kola
Sv. Dominik, galleon, captain Borgi, 500 kola
Gospa od Ružuraija, galleon, captain Borgi, 600 kola
Sv. Andrija, karaka, captain Bartul Baldi, 700 kola, (fleet Petra Ohmucevica Grgurica)
Sv. Marija Magdalena, galleon, captain Milogini, 50(0?) kola
Sv. Franjo, karaka, captain Boligni, 700 kola
Sv. Vito i Modesto, galleon, captain Vanko, 500 kola
Sv. Dominik, karaka, captain Vodopija, 700 kola
Sv. Vinko, galleon, captain Vodopija, 600 kola
Sv. Rajmund, galleon, captain Vodopija, 500 kola
Sv. Ivan Batista, vana, captain Benincasa, 400 kola
Sv. Arhandeo, karaka, captain Marko Mihajla Balaša, 700 kola
Gospa od Loreta, galleon, captain Balaš, 600 kola
Gospa od Pobjede, karaka, captain Buškain, 730 kola
Sv. Nikola, nav, captain Buškain, 400 kola
Sv. Andeo, karaka, captain Sperlenta (di Bor), 750 kola
Sv. Franjo, karaka, captain Franjo Durazzi, 800 kola
Sveta Marija, galleon, captain Bernardi, 500 kola
Sv. Elmo, nav, captain Bernardi, 400 kola
Sv. Petar, galleon, captain Tomicic, 560 kola
Sv. Mihajlo Arhandeo, galleon, captain Mihaljo Brauti, 650 kola, (fleet Petra Ohmucevica Grgurica)
S. Franjo di Paula, nav, captain Brautti, 400 kola