Galleys

Octavian's fleet was largely made up of the standard Roman warship, Quinqueremes (five bank rowing galleys) with a few smaller Quadremes (four bank rowing galleys) mixed in. His crews were better-trained, professional, well fed and rested.

On 19 July 1545, the French galleys advanced on the immobilised English fleet, and initially threatened to destroy a force of 13 small galleys, or "rowbarges", the only ships that were able to move against them without a wind.

Adrienne Gang, the first chief stew on Below Deck, faced challenges with her crew members, but has since moved on to work as a chef in ship galleys and serve as the Culinary Director for Blue Oceans Yachting.

No, there are two: two galleys, and fine ones at that, though their bright paintwork is fog-muted to browns and greys.

Their galleys were connected together with heavy chains but kept apart enough to allow the deployment of their oars.

Old Linotype machines were abandoned, along with galleys, chases, turtles and the rest of the hot-lead era.

He’s been starved in the desert, suffered in the galleys of a war ship, beaten, whipped, and treated as inhuman by Roman overlords.

The CDC inspectors look at eight main areas of a cruise liner - the medical facilities, potable water systems, swimming pools and whirlpool spas, galleys and dining rooms, child activity centres, hotel accommodation, ventilation systems and common areas.

According to extant documents the Melek-Chesme river (small and shallow nowadays) was navigable in Bosporan times, and sea galleys were able to enter the river.

All Roma (Gitano, Gypsy) males between the ages of 18 and 26 were forced to serve in galleys – which was equivalent to a death sentence – but the majority managed to hide and avoid arrest.

Antony's fleet numbered 500, of which 230 were large war galleys with towers full of armed men.

Antony's personal flag ship, like those of his admirals, was a Deceres (ten bank rowing galleys).

Ardaburius and two of his galleys were captured by forces loyal to Joannes and were held prisoners in Ravenna.

As a result, Suleiman dispatched 100 galleys Kinross, 53. under Barbarossa to assist the French in the western Mediterranean.

Being larger than Octavian's ships, Antony's war galleys were very difficult to board in close combat, and were able to rain down missiles onto their smaller and lower opponent's ships.

Both sides waged war against the respective enemies of their faith, and both used galleys as their primary weapons.

But since they had virtually no heavy galleys, the vessels that were at their best in sheltered waters like the Solent, the English fleet promptly retreated into Portsmouth harbour.

By plotting the fleets and calculating the conjectured final manoeuvres of the Mary Rose, Fontana reached the conclusion that the ship had been hit low in the hull by the galleys and was destabilised after taking in water.

Casson (1991), p. 188 For instance, the tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse once set all slaves of Syracuse free to man his galleys, employing thus freedmen, but otherwise relied on citizens and foreigners as oarsmen.

DeVries (1992), p. 283 In the Mediterranean, naval warfare in the Middle Ages was similar to that under late Roman Empire: fleets of galleys would exchange missile fire and then try to board bow first to allow marines to fight on deck.