Oarsmen

Hands on deck: Oarsmen waiting for the rest of the team to arrive.

In the traditional whaleboat, to get leverage for speed, five oarsmen sat on opposite sides of the boat from their oarlocks, and their long oars propelled the whaleboat at up to 5 or 6 miles an hour.

Oarsmen and women descended on Dingle from many counties and there was a terrific atmosphere in the town right through the weekend.

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.

Crew: 70 oarsmen, 15 sailors and officers, 25 horses with their riders and complete gear.

Evidence for this is provided by Thucydides, who records that the Corinthian oarsmen carried "each his oar, cushion (hypersion) and oarloop".

Hanson (2006), p. 242 These few troops were peripherally effective in an offensive sense, but critical in providing defense for the oarsmen.

It is excitement all around as snake-boats, each manned by over a hundred oarsmen, cut through the waters like wind.

It would carry a crew of around 41 men (40 oarsmen and one cox).

On a good day, the oarsmen, rowing for 6–8 hours, could propel the ship between eighty and a hundred kilometres.

Strikingly, among the first uses of grounded floats — towed by horses — was a ceremony in memory of recently drowned parade oarsmen.

The arrangement and number of oarsmen is the first deciding factor in the size of the ship.

The name comes from Roslagen word rodslag, which in coastal Uppland is an old word for a rowing crew of warrior oarsmen.

The ports would house the oarsmen with a minimal waste of space.

There would be three files of oarsmen on each side tightly but workably packed by placing each man outboard of, and in height overlapping, the one below, provided that thalamian tholes were set inboard and their ports enlarged to allow oar movement.

These spectacular regattas are usually held between August and October, and involve long thin boats powered by up to 120 oarsmen.

The term is sometimes also used to refer to medieval and early modern galleys with three files of oarsmen per side as triremes.

With less oarsmen and additional weight, those triremes were slow and heavy; thus totally useless in naval combat and in need of escort.

With many oarsmen dead or unfit to serve, the powerful, head-on ramming tactic for which the Octaries had been designed was now impossible.