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piosenniel · 10-06-2005, 09:19 AM

For your sailing pleasure - use or ignore as you like!

Here’s a link to a few facts about the Xebec.

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This might also be of interest.

It’s an Athenian trireme – the page is from a Greek site, but you can still get a sense from the picture how the rowers were placed and where the sailor/soldiers positioned themselves, the captain on his chair, the rudderman, etc. And look at the lovely ram at the front of the ship - just the thing to punch holes in a ship of Gondor.

Trireme

These are the trireme's specs:

Overall length: 37 metres (121 feet)
Overall beam: 5.5 metres (18 feet)
170 oarsmen in 3 files on each side: top file 31, middle and bottom 27 each
Oarsmen spaced at 2 cubits (0.888 metres/2 feet 9 inches)
One man per oar
Oar length 4.2m (13 feet 8”) and 4.0m (13 feet) - short oars at ends of ship
Speed: able to cover 184 sea miles at about 7.5 knots without stopping

10-06-2005, 09:19 AM	#76
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	For your sailing pleasure - use or ignore as you like! Here’s a link to a few facts about the Xebec. ------------------------- This might also be of interest. It’s an Athenian trireme – the page is from a Greek site, but you can still get a sense from the picture how the rowers were placed and where the sailor/soldiers positioned themselves, the captain on his chair, the rudderman, etc. And look at the lovely ram at the front of the ship - just the thing to punch holes in a ship of Gondor. Trireme These are the trireme's specs: Overall length: 37 metres (121 feet) Overall beam: 5.5 metres (18 feet) 170 oarsmen in 3 files on each side: top file 31, middle and bottom 27 each Oarsmen spaced at 2 cubits (0.888 metres/2 feet 9 inches) One man per oar Oar length 4.2m (13 feet 8”) and 4.0m (13 feet) - short oars at ends of ship Speed: able to cover 184 sea miles at about 7.5 knots without stopping __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.