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''Guilalo'' (also spelled ''gilalo'', ''jilalo'', ''bilalo'', or ''guilálas''), were large Tagalog
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ships from the
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. They were common vessels in
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in the 18th and 19th centuries. They were easily identifiable by their two large settee sails made with woven fiber. They were steered by a central
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and can be rowed with round-bladed oars. They ferried passengers and trade goods (like
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and fruits) between
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and
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. They were also used in the
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region. They were also sometimes referred to as ''tafurea'' (or ''tarida'') in
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, due to their similarity in appearance to the
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European '' tafurea'', a flat-bottomed sailing ship used to transport horses. They are also sometimes known as "'' panco''", a Spanish general term for '' bangka''. File:Modelo de guilalo (Filipinas). Modelo acoplamiento de piñones.jpg, Model of a ''guilalo'' displayed in the 1887 Exposición General de las Islas Filipinas in
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File:Guilalo ships in Manila Bay (c. 1848).jpg, ''Guilalo'' ships in
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, in a
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in Frank Marryat's ''Borneo and the Indian Archipelago'' (1848)


See also

* Balación *
Balangay A balangay, or barangay, is a type of lashed-lug boat built by joining planks edge-to-edge using pins, dowels, and fiber lashings. They are found throughout the Philippines and were used largely as trading ships up until the colonial era. The ...
*
Bangka (boat) Bangka are various native watercraft of the Philippines. It originally referred to small double-outrigger dugout canoes used in rivers and shallow coastal waters, but since the 18th century, it has expanded to include larger lashed-lug ships, ...
, Philippine outrigger sailing ships, also spelled ''banca'' or ''panca'' *
Casco (barge) ''Cascos'' are flat-bottomed square-ended barges from the Philippines. They were used mostly to carry cargo along lakes and rivers, and as Lighter (barge), lighters to transport goods and passengers to and from Mooring (watercraft), moored ships. ...
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Dhow Dhow (; ) is the generic name of a number of traditional sailing vessels with one or more masts with settee or sometimes lateen sails, used in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean region. Typically sporting long thin hulls, dhows are trading vessels ...
*
Garay (ship) ''Garay'' were traditional native warships of the Banguingui people in the Philippines and were used by the Bruneian Navy. In the 18th and 19th centuries, they were commonly used for piracy by the Banguingui and Iranun people against unarmed ...
*
Karakoa ''Karakoa'' were large outrigger warships from the Philippines. They were used by native Filipinos, notably the Kapampangans and the Visayans, during seasonal sea raids. ''Karakoa'' were distinct from other traditional Philippine sailing vesse ...
*
Lepa (ship) ''Lepa'', also known as ''lipa'' or ''lepa-lepa'', are indigenous ships of the Sama-Bajau people in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia. They were traditionally used as houseboats by the seagoing Sama Dilaut. Since most Sama have abandoned ...
*
Paraw Paraw (also spelled ''parao'') are various double outrigger sail boats in the Philippines. It is a general term (similar to the term '' bangka'') and thus can refer to a range of ship types, from small fishing canoes to large merchant lashe ...
* Salambaw


References

{{Austronesian ships Indigenous ships of the Philippines