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trireme used 170 rowers;
later galleys included even
larger crews.
Trireme oarsmen used
leather cushions to
slide over
their seats,
which allowed them to...
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files of
oarsmen on each side of the ship, and not an
increased number of rows of oars. The most
common theory on the
arrangement of
oarsmen in the new...
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Peloponnesian War.
Medieval and
early modern galleys with
three files of
oarsmen per side are
sometimes referred to as triremes.
Depictions of two-banked...
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there were some
Venetian oarsmen as well. Free
oarsmen were
generally acknowledged to be
superior to
enslaved or
imprisoned oarsmen, but the
former were gradually...
- or competition. RCA was
founded as The
Canadian ****ociation of
Amateur Oarsmen in 1880 by the
rowing clubs then in
existence to
coordinate and regulate...
- the
palace of Knossos,
dated around 1200 BC,
which depicts a ship with
oarsmen and a
superimposed horse figure,
originally interpreted as a representation...
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powered by 170
oarsmen who were
seated in 3 rows on each side of the ship. The city
could afford such a
large fleet—it had over 34,000
oarsmen—because it...
- The
National ****ociation of
Amateur Oarsmen,
organized in 1872, was the
first national governing body of the
sport of
rowing in the
United States, and...
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Southern Peloponnese Tzacones/Lakones (marines), and Prose****s/Prosalentai (
oarsmen)—but
similarly could not
sustain funding a
standing force,
largely relying...
- the
oarsmen to row as a unit, let
alone to
execute more
complex battle manoeuvres,
required long and
arduous training. At
least half of the
oarsmen would...
