Scam-pa′vi-a.
(Vessel.) A fast-rowing warboat of Naples and Sicily; in 1814-15 they ranged to 150 feet, pulled by 40 sweeps or oars, each man having his bunk under his sweep. They were rigged with one huge lateen at one third from the stem; no forward bulwark or stem above deck; a long brass 6-pounder gun worked before the mast; only 2 feet above water; abaft a lateen mizzen with topsail. — Admiral Smyth.