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Местонахождение: Санкт-Петербург | dlook - 3/4/2007 15:24
А отчего в верхнем ряду по два гребца?
Взят корабль "среднего класса" с численностью экипажа около 200 человек.
Как считается, на нём гребцы сидели в два яруса: нижний - 50 человек (25 пар вёсел), верхний - 100 (тоже 25 пар вёсел), по два человека на весло.
Оставшиеся 50 - воины, они как раз помещаются на башнях и боковых галереях.
http://forum.xlegio.ru/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=6003&mid=84961#M8...
"....the line of this fleet, two-banked galleys with a minimum of 25 oars in each bank, or 100 in all.(33) There were three sizes. The smallest was called ousiakos because it was manned by one ousia or company, numbering 100 or slightly more;(34) the men were charged with pulling the oars and also taking care of the fighting,(35) which, in effect, would mean those in the upper bank. The largest, the dromon proper, had a minimum crew of 200. Of these, 50 were permanently assigned to the lower bank, and the remaining 150 were stationed above.(36) Possibly 100 of them manned the oars, 2 to each, and 50 were marines;(37) when the occasion warranted it, the second oarsman...." |
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