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[[File:Galley.jpg|thumb|Galiota Of Catalan style (small galley)]]
The '''Catalan navy''' - with Catalan ships, Catalan admirals and Catalan crew (not counting the rabble) - under the direct or indirect orders of the counts of Barcelona, represented a reality recognized by the entire Mediterranean from its origins to Fernando the Catholic. In later times ships built and manned on the Catalan coasts, under the authority of non-Catalan kings, for example the kings of Naples, carri(contracted; show full)

In an extensive inventory of the things owned by [[Charles V of France]] that were in his possession at the time of his death on September 16, 1380.<ref name="Chandler1985">{{Cite book|url=http://books.google.es/books?id=hObeAAAAMAAJ&
q=Item+ung+grant+orloge+de+mer,+de+deux+grans+fiolles+plains+de+sablon,+en+ung+grant+estuy+de+boys+garny&dq=Item+ung+grant+orloge+de+mer,+de+deux+grans+fiolles+plains+de+sablon,+en+ung+grant+estuy+de+boys+garny&hl=ca&sa=X&ei=NRRWVJm2Etffat_HgVA&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAA|title=The Time Museum: Time measuring instruments. pt. 1. Astrolabes, astrolabe related instruments|last2=Bruce Chandler|last3=Anthony John Turner|date=1985|publisher=The Museum|isbn=978-0-912947-01-3}}</ref> There is an article cited as "heures de naviguer" from the king's study to his castle at Saint Germain in Laye, which is described as follows:<ref name="Rossum1996">{{Cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=9Za4jdBEVB4C&pg=PA380|title=History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders|last=Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum|date=15 de junio dJune 1996|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-15510-4|page=380}}</ref>

This "orloge de mer" or "heures de naviguer" was sent to him, as a gift, when he was still only a prince (being, therefore, before 1356 when he took the place of his father in prison), by John the hunter, through his aunt Yolanda de Aragón, when Juan asked him for a manuscript by Joan de Mandeville, "to translate it into the Aragonese language". This point is essential to know the langua(contracted; show full)II and his allies, in 1114. Founded in a treaty of [[1113]] between the Republic of Pisa and the Count of Barcelona, it had the objective of taking the island from the Muslims and preventing the attack and obstruction of the [[convoy]]s and ships of the Christian merchants who at that time were sailing in the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] Sea.<ref name="Lacosta">{{Cite web|url=http://www.webislam.com/?idt=3078|title=Mallorca 1229: la visión de los vencidos|last=Javier Lacosta|date=16 
de septiembre deSep 1999|publisher=Junta islámica|access-date=31 de octubre deOct 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/24694952212358274198835/p0000003.htm|title=España: sus monumentos y artes, su naturaleza e historia.|last=Pablo Piferrer, Francisco Pi Margall|access-date=2 de n Noviembre deer  2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://books.google.es/books?id=Hr7y7X68vOwC&pg=PA333&dq=abu+yahya&hl=es&ei=VOPlTI-EBJD1sgatpaizCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=mallorca&f=false|title=Itinerario cultural de Almorávides y Almohades: Magreb y Península Ibérica|last=Legado andalusí, Hamid Triki|date=mMayo de 2003|publisher=Junta de Andalucía|access-date=18 de nNoviembre der 2010}}</ref> Although Mallorca was once again in Muslim power, it served to lay the foundations for the future Catalan naval power and to strengthen business contacts in the Mediterranean.<ref name="bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/r/ramon_berenguer_iii.htm|title=Ramón Berenguer III el Grande|publisher=Biografías y vidas|access-date=16 de diciembre deDec 2010}}</ref>

==Related pages==

* Royal Shipyards of Barcelona 
* ''Ordinations on the fet of the sea''

== References ==
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* [http://books.google.cat/books?id=9FL1gDllhg0C&pg=PA266&dq=inventari+rei++cavall&hl=ca&ei=vj6OTMSOKIPBswaoo_j3AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFYQ6AEwCTge Rubió and Lluch; Diplomatari del Oriente Catala; p.267 Inventory of a galley]

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