been out of Ancona for one day, and had made no captures. On 25 October 1807, the 20-gun, sixth rate was off Otranto when she found an armed trabàccolo anchored under the fortress there. Under fire from both the vessel and the shore, a boat party from Herald cut-out the vessel, which turned out to be the French privateer Caesar, armed with four 6-pounder guns. Caesar was sailing from Ancona to Corfu with a cargo of rice and flour. British casualties were four men wounded. On 21 December 1812, the 38-gun frigate , Captain Bridges Watkinson Taylor commanding, accompanied by the brig-sloop , chased a trabàccolo under the protection of the tower of San Cataldo, on the coast between Brindisi and Otranto. The boats of the two vessels captured the tower and blew it up. The trabàccolo had three guns and three swivel guns, but no cargo, and the men from the boats blew it up too. On 2 February 1813, after a two-hour chase, the boats of the 18-gun sloop captured one trabàccolo and ran nine ashore at St. Catherine's, Corfu. Musket fire from the heights and cannon fire from a battery killed two British sailors and severely wounded seven. On 22 Mar 1813, boats from captured a large trabàccolo armed with three 9-pounder guns, and burnt a similar one laden with oil, off the town of Vasto. On the 26th, boats from Havannah captured five armed trabaccoli and five feluccas laden with salt, near the town of Fortore. These operations cost Havannah only two men wounded. External links The Marine Museum of Cesenatico has a video (in Italian), of how one constructs a trabaccolo. Citations Sailboat types Merchant sailing ship types