- the word "
banked", as in "single
banked", "
double banked" is
different in the
context of
galleys from the
propulsion of
small boats by
oar. See Rowing#Forward-facing...
- hand on each
oar, is two-
oar sculling. The
oars may also be
called sculls. Two-
oared sculled craft include:
Adirondack guideboat Banks dory, Gloucester...
-
oarsmen on the
upper and
lower oar banks, or even a
monoreme (warship with a
single level of
oars) with five oarsmen. The "
double-banking"
theory is supported...
- line of the boat
to maximise this length). A
double banked boat has two
oarsmen seated on each thwart, each of whom
operates their own
oar on
their own side...
-
motions of
oars to displace water and
generate reactional propulsion.
Rowing is
functionally similar to paddling, but
rowing requires oars to be mechanically...
-
rather than
an effective warship. The name "forty"
refers not
to the
number of
oars, but
to the
number of
rowers on each
vertical "column" of
oars that propelled...
- ship or brig with a lug-rigged
mizzen sail
Bireme An ancient vessel,
propelled by two
banks of
oars Birlinn (Scots) Clinker-built vessel, single-masted...
-
likely to have been
specialised types.
Illustrations from 1711 and the 1720s show
double-ended
whaleboats with a crew of six, single-
banked oars and a...
-
similar to the
ancient Gr**** penteconter. It had one
bench with 25
oars on each side,
while in the late
Roman Republic, it was
equipped with two
banks of oars...
-
Oared vessel tactics were the
dominant form of
naval tactics used from
antiquity to the late 16th
century when
sailing ships began to replace galleys...
