Garay (ship)

Banguingui garay ships by Rafael Monleón (1890)
1863 illustration of the Tartar, a garay from Sulu commissioned by Thomas Forrest in his 1774 expedition to New Guinea

Garay were traditional native warships of the Banguingui people in the Philippines and were used by the Bruneian Navy.[1] In the 18th and 19th centuries, they were commonly used for piracy by the Banguingui and Iranun people against unarmed trading ships and raids on coastal settlements in the regions surrounding the Sulu Sea.

  1. ^ Francis Warren, James (1981). The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery, and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State. ISBN 9789971693862.