He equipped a fleet of fifteen galleys and two barques. Apart from the galleys only 17 other French ships escaped. Furthermore, the Veneti ships were superior to the light Roman galleys. Common soldiers were consigned to use as rowers on the royal galleys. A fleet of 220 ships of war and 20 light galleys was prepared. Boats used in Gaelic Ireland include canoes, currachs, sailboats and Irish galleys. Barbarossa's fleet that summer numbered 122 galleys and galliots. One thousand slaves were required to man the galleys (ships) of the Order. Pliny ordered the immediate launching of the fleet galleys to the evacuation of the coast. They had the larger fleet, nearly 300 to John's 207 galleys and six galleasses. This was the last naval battle to be fought primarily between galleys. Sigismund set out with 90,000 men and a flotilla of 70 galleys. They captured hundreds of men and sent them to labor in the French galleys. In 1566 it was besieged by 105 Turk galleys. The Knights joined the expedition, which consisted of about 54 galleys and 14,000 men.