Trabaccolo

The trabàccolo, trabaccalo, trabacalo (in Italian) or trabakul (in Croatian), is a type of Adriatic Sea sailing coaster.

Built of oak and larch, trabàccoli were slow but reliable cargo vessels ranging between 50 and 200 deadweight tons.

Other characteristics included a large rudder that extended below the depth of the keel, two masts with lug sails and rigging, a bowsprit, and a carved and colorfully painted stern.

[1] On 18 February 1801, off the island of Lafrina, Pigmy captured Adelaide, a French privateer trabàccolo armed with two 12-pounders and one 6-pounder cannon, and carrying a crew of 51 men.

[3] On 25 October 1807, the 20-gun, sixth rate HMS Herald was off Otranto when she found an armed trabàccolo anchored under the fortress there.

[5] On 2 February 1813, after a two-hour chase, the boats of the 18-gun sloop HMS Kingfisher captured one trabàccolo and ran nine ashore at St. Catherine's, Corfu.

[6] On 22 Mar 1813, boats from HMS Havannah captured a large trabàccolo armed with three 9-pounder guns, and burnt a similar one laden with oil, off the town of Vasto.