Can someone explain single and double banked oars to me? I've read a few explanations and still walk away confused.
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Two paddlers sitting on the same bank (thwart) side-by-side manned double-banked oars. Where single banked is the one man only.Can someone explain single and double banked oars to me? I've read a few explanations and still walk away confused.
Thanks guys. What about the same arrangement as single banked but with two men per oar? Was that ever done?
Hi Don, Maybe I've seen too many movies, but large warships using oars to supplement sails would have had multiple men on each oar. ya think?
Terry
I would think so except I don't think large ships had oars. I guess it would depend on you definition of "large". The largest I've seen with oars was about 350 tons. I was thinking about ships boats though.
Hi Don,
I spent the day looking, but found nothing in the way of "ships boats". It does seem likely that a ship's boat could support that concept if the rowers were staggered, sitting one behind the other, but the oars would need to be extra long ...more like the sweeps found on a Row Galley (?)
Terry
did you see also this topic?
Help with rigging sails and oars for men-of-war ships boats
Hello members and guests. This is the 1st time I've posted and have a few questions to ask of all of you knowledgeable people. I have built a number of ships boats based on the plans from Harold and Underhill, for Man-of-war boats. Circa 1800s. I have attached a picture of a dinghy and a...
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And especially take a look at this page, showing a list with the oar dimensions (from David Steel 1797) connected with the number of guns -> also bigger vessels had oars in the earlier times
f.e. this is the HMS Tiger, a 38 gun ship launched in 1647 with 460 tons
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I'm not sure what I'll say now .... perhaps at the beginning of our history, and the history of the conquests of Alexander the Great, there were ships with such a movement device. When two, and possibly more people moved a huge oar. The ships were called diremas with two rows of oars on board. And triremes with three rows of oars...