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crews. Trireme oarsmen used leather cushions to slide over their seats, which allowed them to use their leg strength as a modern oarsman does with a sliding...

of the gunwale (the oarsman can sit off the centre line of the boat to maximise this length). A double banked boat has two oarsmen seated on each thwart...

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...

achieved this feat. In another first, the Most Outstanding Oarsman trophy was shared by four oarsmen Sajaad Ajmal, Jehan Hapugalle, Mayukha Gamage & Maliq...

Morrison. Using the data provided by Vitruvius on the space allowed for each oarsman, Morrison concluded that the ship was at least 110 m long and almost 10...

by half the number of oarsmen to make room for the soldiers. According to another, there were one and a half files of oarsmen on each side, with the...

Royal Barge manned by oarsmen themselves seated in a double row and distinguished by the red bands on their tunic sleeves. Each oarsman wears a headgear,...

Robert Coombes (1808 – 25 February 1860), celebrated professional oarsman and Champion Sculler, was born at Vauxhall, Surrey. A waterman from an early...

Hamilton Rowing Club, Sandos was described in 1930 as a "strong, experienced oarsman". He represented New Zealand at the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton...

Tyneside professional oarsman. He became the Tyne, Thames, English and World Sculling Champion. He was one of three great Tyneside oarsmen, the other two being...

on the River Thames, there were competitions to show who was the best oarsman. As a wherryman did not earn very much, competitive rowing was seen as...

Venice High as its very own." The school's student news site, called The Oarsman, began as a school newspaper. Written Voice, a literary journal started...

Pletna oarsman employ the stehruder (standing rowing) technique to propel and navigate boats across the lake using two oars. The role of the oarsman dates...

Wayback Machine "THE LONDON FOUR-OARED CREW; ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH OARSMEN" (PDF). The New York Times. 14 August 1876. R C Lehmann The Complete Oarsman...

continue to divide rowers even 29 years afterwards. British Olympic champion oarsman Martin Cross describes the book as "... one of the most entertaining (if...

Club's coaches is Bill Mason.[citation needed] Bill is a former Olympic oarsman himself and for many years was head coach and director of rowing at Imperial...

Fifty Two snake boats or Palliyodams had participated in the festival. The oarsmen sing traditional boat songs Vanchippattu and wear white mundu [when defined...

spoon-shaped oars.[citation needed] He was the first of three well-known Tyneside oarsmen, the other two being Robert Chambers and James Renforth. Harry Clasper...

side of the boat. This contrasts with a single-banked boat, with just one oarsman on each thwart operating a single oar, with the side on which the oars...

1896. In the spring of 1901, Spencer Gollan, along with two professional oarsmen, George Towns and Sullivan, broke the record for rowing between Oxford...