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| 14 | 49 | They, while rowing, are View more quotes about protected">protected, incidentally, by a parapet fixed on the rowing frame. |
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| 14 | 46 | It is almost universal on ram-ships. |
| 14 | 47 | The rowing deck, further, is open to the air, thereby differing from the rowing holds of round ships. |
| 14 | 48 | This brings many more free fighting men, the oarsmen, into any action which might be required. |
| 14 | 49 | They, while rowing, are protected, incidentally, by a parapet fixed on the rowing frame. |
| 14 | 50 | Between each pair of benches, behind the parapet, is one bowman. |
| 14 | 51 | The thole ports in a given group of three are about ten inches apart and the groups themselves, center to center, are a bit less than four feet apart. |
| 14 | 52 | The Dorna carried twenty groups of three to a side, and so used one hundred and twenty oarsmen. |