Sentences with phrase «galleon designed»

In 1976, the Dominican Republic's Underwater Archaeological Recovery Commission began excavating the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, a Spanish galleon designed to carry quicksilver (mercury) that was used in Spain's gold and silver mines in Mexico.

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Inside it's jam packed with more fascinating artefacts, including an exquisitely ornate clock in the shape of a galleon, designed to fire its cannons and roll across the table on the hour.

This marble fire surround as log store is the modern equivalent of Pirro Ligorio?s 16th - century designs for the spectacular and bizarre water fountains in the gardens at Villa d?Este, Tivoli, where galleons sail on ponds and an «organ» plays as water pours through its pipes.