. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . ter part of the 13th century, the number ofbenches on each side seems to have run from twenty- Some detailsfive to twenty-eight, at least as I interpret Sanudos ^Jlf*3111calculations. The 100-oared vessels often mentioned Galleys-{ by Muntanery p. 419) were probably two-banked vesselswith twenty-five benches to a side. The galleys were very narrow, only 15J feet in beam.|| * VArmata Navale, Roma, 1616, pp. 150-151. t See a work to which I am indebted for a good deal of light and information, theEn
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . ter part of the 13th century, the number ofbenches on each side seems to have run from twenty- Some detailsfive to twenty-eight, at least as I interpret Sanudos ^Jlf*3111calculations. The 100-oared vessels often mentioned Galleys-{ by Muntanery p. 419) were probably two-banked vesselswith twenty-five benches to a side. The galleys were very narrow, only 15J feet in beam.|| * VArmata Navale, Roma, 1616, pp. 150-151. t See a work to which I am indebted for a good deal of light and information, theEngineer Giovanni Casonis Essay: Dei Navigli Poliremiusati nella Marina dagliAntichi Veneziani in Esercitazioni del? Ateneo Veneto vol. ii. p. 338. Thisgreat Qitinquercme, as it was styled, is stated to have been struck by a fire-arrow, andblown up, in January 1570. X Pantera, p. 22. § Lazarus Bay fins de Re Navali Veterum, in Gronovii Thesaurus, Yen. 1737, p. 581. This writer also speaks of the Quinquereme mentioned above (p. 577). || Marinus Sanuthts, p. 65. 34 INTRODUCTION But to give room for the play of the oars and the passage of the fighting-men, &c, this width waslargely augmented by an opera-morta,or outrigger deck, projecting muchbeyond the ships sides and sup-ported by timber brackets.* I donot find it stated how great this pro-jection was in the mediaeval galleys,but in those of the 17th century itwas on each side as much as fths ofthe true beam. And if it was asgreat in the 13th-century galleys thetotal width between the false gunnelswould be about 22^ the centre line of the deck ran, the whole length of thevessel, a raised gangway called the corsia, for passage clear of theoars. The benches were arranged as in this diagram. The part ofthe bench next the gunnel was at right angles to it, but theother two-thirds of the bench were thrown forward d, c, indicate the position of the three rowers. The shortestoar a was called Terlicchio
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