What is the name given to a seagoing vessel with two banks of oars
"Trireme A trireme (; derived from Latin: ""trirēmis"" ""with three banks of oars""; ""triērēs"", literally ""three-rower"") was an ancient vessel and a type of galley that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean, especially the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks and Romans. The trireme derives its name from its three rows of oars, manned with one man per oar. The early trireme was a development of the penteconter, an ancient warship with a single row of 25 oars on each side (i.e., a single-banked boat), and of the bireme (, ""diērēs""), a warship with two banks of oars, of"
"Faering A faering is an open boat with two pairs of oars, commonly found in most boat-building traditions in western and northern Scandinavia. Faerings are clinker-built, with planks overlapped and riveted together to form the hull. This type of boat has a history dating back to Viking-era Scandinavia. The small boats found with the 9th century Gokstad ship resemble those still used in Western and Northern Norway, and testify to a long tradition of boat building. Faerings may carry a small sail, traditionally a square sail, in addition to oars. The only significant difference being a conversion from a side-mounted"
"Bireme A bireme is an ancient oared warship (galley) with two decks of oars, invented and used by Greeks even before the 6th century BC. Biremes were long vessels built for military purposes, had relatively high speed, meticulous construction, strength, and depending on the number of rows of oars, were called ""uniremes"", ""biremes"", ""triremes"", ""quadriremes"", etc. The name bireme comes from ""bi-"" meaning two and ""-reme"" meaning oar. It was typically about long with a maximum beam width of around . It was modified from the penteconter, a ship that had only one set of oars on each side, the"
"rudder to stern-mounted. They are used as small fishing vessels in areas of modern Norway, and occasionally raced. The word ""faering"" comes from the Norwegian word ""færing"" (Old Norse ""feræringr""), literally meaning ""four-oaring"". Faering A faering is an open boat with two pairs of oars, commonly found in most boat-building traditions in western and northern Scandinavia. Faerings are clinker-built, with planks overlapped and riveted together to form the hull. This type of boat has a history dating back to Viking-era Scandinavia. The small boats found with the 9th century Gokstad ship resemble those still used in Western and Northern Norway,"
"Schooner A schooner is a type of sailing vessel with fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts. The most common type has two masts, the foremast being shorter than the main. While the schooner was originally gaff-rigged, modern schooners typically carry a Bermuda rig. The first detailed definition of a schooner, describing the vessel as two-masted vessel with fore and aft gaff-rigged sails appeared in 1769 in William Falconer's ""Universal Dictionary of the Marine"". According to the language scholar Walter William Skeat, the term ""schooner"" comes from ""scoon"", while the ""sch"" spelling comes from the later adoption of the Dutch"
"Longboat In the days of sailing ships, a vessel would carry several ship's boats for various uses. One would be a longboat, an open boat to be rowed by eight or ten oarsmen, two per thwart. The longboat was double banked; its rowing benches were designed to accommodate two men each pulling an oar on opposite sides. Other boats sometimes embarked on a sailing ship included the cutter, whaleboat, gig, jolly boat, launch, dinghy, and punt. Unlike the dinghy or the cutter, the longboat would have fairly fine lines aft to permit its use in steep waves such as surf"
"galleys with three files of oarsmen per side as triremes. Depictions of two-banked ships (biremes), with or without the ""parexeiresia"" (the outriggers, see below), are common in 8th century BC and later vases and pottery fragments, and it is at the end of that century that the first references to three-banked ships are found. Fragments from an 8th-century relief at the Assyrian capital of Nineveh depicting the fleets of Tyre and Sidon show ships with rams, and fitted with oars pivoted at two levels. They have been interpreted as two-decked warships, and also as triremes. Modern scholarship is divided on"
"Sculling Sculling is the use of oars to propel a boat by moving the oars through the water on both sides of the craft, or moving a single oar over the stern. By extension, the oars themselves are often referred to as sculls when used in this manner, and the boat itself may be referred to as a scull. Two-oared sculling is a form of rowing in which a boat is propelled by one or more rowers, each of whom operates two oars, one held in the fingers and upper palm of each hand. This contrasts with the other common"
"an oar. The hawksbill turtle's genus of Eretmochelys is derived from the Greek root ""eretmo"", which roughly translates to ""oar"". The turtle was so-named because of the oar-like shape of its front flippers. Oar An oar is an implement used for water-borne propulsion. Oars have a flat blade at one end. Rowers grasp the oar at the other end. The difference between oars and paddles are that oars only have one blade, and are used exclusively for rowing, whereas paddles can have either one or two blade and are not rowed. Oars for rowing are generally connected to the vessel"
"and even the Spartan king Nabis in his attempt to rebuild the Spartan navy. In contemporary writings, the name was associated with a class rather than a specific type of vessels, as considerable variation is evident in the sources: the number of oars ranged from 16 to 50, they could be one- or double-banked, and some types did not have a ram, presumably being used as couriers and fast cargo vessels. The ""hemiolia"" or ""hemiolos"" ( or ) was a light and fast warship that appeared in the early 4th century BC. It was particularly favoured by pirates in the"
"Proa A proa, also seen as prau, perahu, and prahu, is a type of multihull sailboat. It is a vessel consisting of two (usually) unequal length parallel hulls. It is sailed so that one hull is kept to windward, and the other to leeward, so that it needs to ""shunt"" to reverse direction when tacking. The English term ""proa"" usually refers specifically to the South Pacific ""proa"" as described in the journals of the British ship HMS ""Centurion"". The ""perahu"" traditional outrigger boat is most numerous in the various islands of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. These differ from the"
"authors, the name was associated with a class rather than a specific type of vessels, as considerable variation is evident in the sources: the number of oars ranged from 16 to 50, they could be one- or double-banked, and some types did not have a ram, presumably being used as couriers and fast cargo vessels. The most known Liburnian ship was their warship, known as a ""libyrnis"" to the Greeks and a ""liburna"" to the Romans, propelled by oars. According to some thoughts, liburna was shown in the scene of naval battle, curved on a stone tablet (Stele di Novilara)"
"Periauger A Periauger or perogue (/pɪˈroʊg, ˈpiroʊg/) is a shallow draft, often flat-bottomed two-masted sailing vessel, often without a bowsprit, which also carried oars for rowing. Periaugers of varying sizes and designs were used extensively in the inland waterways of the eastern seaboard of the United States during the 18th to early 19th century. The periauger was the type of sailing vessel used by Cornelius Vanderbilt to ply the waters of New York Harbor between Staten Island and lower Manhattan when he began his ferry service. Periaugers were the vessel of choice in the Hudson River. They were used as"
"include: Using oars in pairs, with one hand on each oar, is two-oar sculling. The oars may also be called sculls. Two-oared sculled craft include: Using oars individually, with both hands on a single oar, is sweep or sweep-oar rowing. In this case the rowers are usually paired so that there is an oar on each side of the boat. Sweep-oared craft include: Moving a single stern-mounted oar from side to side, while changing the angle of the blade so as to generate forward thrust on both strokes, is single-oar sculling. Single-oar sculled craft include: A paddle, with a blade"
"Sixareen The sixareen or sixern (; meaning ""six-oared"") is a traditional fishing boat used around the Shetland Islands. It is a clinker-built boat, evolved as a larger version of the yoal, when the need arose for crews to fish further from shore. The first of the sixareens were, like the yoal, imported from Norway in kit form until the mid 19th century, when increasing import duty made it more cost effective to import the raw materials and build the boats in Shetland. The sixareen was so named because she was crewed by six men, each man rowing a single oar,"
"commonly buried with an intact, luxurious ship to transport them in the afterlife. Furthermore, the Hedeby coins, among the earliest known Danish currency, have ships as emblems, showing the importance of naval vessels in the area. Through such cultural and practical significance, the Viking ship progressed into the most powerful, advanced naval vessel in Viking Age Europe. A faering is an open rowboat with two pairs of oars, commonly found in most boat-building traditions in Western and Northern Scandinavia, dating back to the Viking Age. Knarr is the Norse term for ships that were built for Atlantic voyages. They were"
"Brigantine A brigantine was a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). The main mast is the second and taller of the two masts. Modern American definitions include vessels without the square sails on the main mast. In the Mediterranean Basin during the 13th century, a brigantine referred to a sail- and oar-driven war vessel. It was lateen rigged on two masts and had between eight and twelve oars on each side. Its speed, maneuverability and ease of"
"probably 50 oars, arranged with 25 oars on each side. Again unlike Hellenistic vessels, which used an outrigger, these extended directly from the hull. In the later two-banked (""bireme"") dromons of the 9th and 10th centuries, the two oar banks (""elasiai"") were divided by the deck, with the first oar bank was situated below, whilst the second oar bank was situated above deck; these rowers were expected to fight alongside the ship's marines in boarding operations. The Greek scholar Christos Makrypoulias suggests an arrangement of 25 oarsmen beneath and 35 on the deck on either side for a dromon of"
"Barque A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts having the fore- and mainmasts rigged square and only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) rigged fore-and-aft. The word ""barque"" entered English via French, which in turn came from the Latin ""barca"" by way of Occitan, Spanish or Italian. The Latin ""barca"" may stem from Celtic """"barc"""" (per Thurneysen) or Greek """"baris"""" (per Diez), a term for an Egyptian boat. The ""Oxford English Dictionary"", however, considers the latter improbable. The word ""barc"" appears to have come from Celtic languages. The form adopted by English,"
"or an hundred. Several have gone out our inlets on the ocean to Virginia, laden with pork, and other produce of the country. Of these trees curious boats for pleasure may be made, and other necessary craft... This wood is very lasting, and free from the rot. A canoe of it will outlast four boats, and seldom wants repair."" Periauger A Periauger or perogue (/pɪˈroʊg, ˈpiroʊg/) is a shallow draft, often flat-bottomed two-masted sailing vessel, often without a bowsprit, which also carried oars for rowing. Periaugers of varying sizes and designs were used extensively in the inland waterways of the"
"single pieces of timber, which were known as pole masts. For square-sail carrying ship, the masts, given their standard names in bow to stern (front to back) order, are: Some names given to masts in ships carrying other types of rig (where the naming is less standardised) are: Most types of vessels with two masts are supposed to have a main-mast and a smaller mizzen-mast, although both brigs and two-masted schooners carry a fore-mast and a main-mast instead. On a two-masted vessel with the main-mast forward and a much smaller second mast, such as a ketch, or particularly a yawl,"
"small, usually two-masted sailing vessel. The English word ""pinnace"", a man-of-war's tender, is a deduction from the French word. These boats are also called Perahu (Malay: boat) pinas Golok, to distinguish them from other types built with a straight stem and without a beak (figurehead) the pinas Dogar. Golok, (Malay: cleaver/machete) or sword with a convex cutting edge, refers to the curved, clipper like bow. These picturesque boats had been plying the South China Sea for centuries hauling cargo or being used in the pirate trade and the last few were still used as sailing freighters in the 1980s. The"
"Birlinn The birlinn (spelt ""bìrlinn"" in Scottish Gaelic) was a wooden vessel propelled by sail and oar, used extensively in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland from the Middle Ages on. Variants of the name in English and Lowland Scots include ""berlin"" and ""birling"". The Gallo-Norse term may derive from the Norse ""byrðingr"" (ship of burden). It has been suggested that a local design lineage might also be traceable to vessels similar to the Broighter-type boat (first century BC), equipped with oars and a square sail, without the need to assume a specific Viking design influence. It is uncertain,"
"Row galley A row galley was a term used by the early United States Navy for an armed watercraft that used oars rather than sail as a means of propulsion . During the age of sail row galleys had the advantage of propulsion while ships of sail might be stopped or running at slow speed because of lack of wind for their sails. While called galleys, they were based on different hull type than the Mediterranean galley, the term being used mainly due to the employment of oars. Row galleys were often fitted with sails in addition to the oars."
"Barrymore. In the film, the boat was named the ""Sea Serpent"". Ketch A ketch is a two-masted sailing craft whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast). The name ""ketch"" is derived from ""catch"" or fishing boat. Historically the ketch was a northern European square-rigged vessel, often a freighter or fishing boat, particularly in the Baltic and North seas. Nowadays, a ketch tends to be a fore-and-aft rigged pleasure yacht, similar to a yawl; but a ketch's mizzen mast is taller and its mizzen sail is larger than a yawl's. The large fore-and-aft sail on the mainmast is"
"oar, the quinquereme from a trireme by placing two oarsmen on the two uppermost levels (the ""thranitai"" and ""zygitai"", according to Greek terminology), and the later hexareme by placing two rowers on every level. Other interpretations of the quinquereme include a bireme warship with three and two 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 by the fact that the 4th-century quinqueremes were housed in the same ship sheds as the triremes, and must therefore have had similar width (ca. 16"
"Randan A randan is a boat rowed by three persons, stern and bow using a single oar each and the central person a pair of sculls. The word is of unknown origin, and can hardly be connected with a slang term for a row or spree, which is found as early as the beginning of the 18th century and is generally taken as a variation of random, haphazard. Additionally, in Scotland, the term ""out on the randan"" describes a night of drinking and/or socialising. From Old French Randon. For example - ""Awright boys, gaun oot on the randan the night?"""
"Oar (sport rowing) In rowing, oars are used to propel the boat. Oars differ from paddles in that they use a fixed fulcrum, an oarlock or rowlock attached to the side of the boat, to transfer power from the handle to the blade, rather than using the athlete's shoulders or hands as the pivot-point as in canoeing and kayaking. When the rower uses one oar on one side, it is called ""sweep"" rowing that the single oar is called a ""sweep"" oar. When the rower uses two oars at the same time, one on each side, it is called sculling,"
"paraws for Island hopping and sunset sailing for a fairly small renting fee. Paraw The paraw is a double outrigger sail boat native to the Visayas region of the Philippines. The paraw is similar to a proa, but the paraw has two outriggers or ""katig"". They characteristically have large crab-claw sails opposite a smaller triangular foresail. The word paraw also parao is related to ""proa"" and may be used to denote a boat. However, the term for boats (with or without outriggers) in the Philippines without sails or ""layag"" are typically called ""vanca"" or ""bangka"". The paraw has three major"
"Oar An oar is an implement used for water-borne propulsion. Oars have a flat blade at one end. Rowers grasp the oar at the other end. The difference between oars and paddles are that oars only have one blade, and are used exclusively for rowing, whereas paddles can have either one or two blade and are not rowed. Oars for rowing are generally connected to the vessel by means of rowlocks or tholes which transmit the applied force to the boat. In this system (known as a second class lever) the water is the fulcrum. By contrast, paddles, like those"
"the shape of its roof, which resembles an overturned boat. According to an expert ""the Mastaka is technically called Voita and hence the name of the dewl"".The Lingaraj Temple of Bhubaneswar has a representation of a boat being steered with an oar by a woman, dated to the 11th century CE. A sculpture from Konark in the 13th century CE shows a boat rowed by four people, with a cabin in the center in which a man is seated, armed with a bow and arrow. A boat depicted in the Sun Temple of Konarak contains a giraffe, indicating trade with"
"Brig A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and maneuverable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Brigs fell out of use with the arrival of the steam ship because they required a relatively large crew for their small size and were difficult to sail into the wind. Their rigging differs from that of a brigantine which has a gaff-rigged mainsail, while a brig has a square mainsail with an additional gaff-rigged spanker"
"the crew names and the race details arranged around this. Many older universities (Oxford and Cambridge would be prime examples, as well as Yale and Harvard) and their colleges have long histories of using the trophy oar and many examples are on display in club houses around the world. The Norwegian municipalities of Fedje and Herøy both have oars in their coat-of-arms. Oars have been used to describe various animals with characteristics that closely resemble the said rowing implement. The members of the Family Regalecidae, elongated deep-sea fishes, are called oarfish because their body shape is similar to that of"