On Massachusetts» gloomy and rain - spattered Lake Quinsigamond, the world champion
oarsmen from Germany's Ratzeburg Rowing Club (SI, May 20) were pitted against last year's IRA champions from Cornell and 13 other crews in the annual eastern sprints.
Not exact matches
Many Oxford
oarsmen go on to compete internationally: in Sydney four Gold medallists came
from Oxford, and at the Athens Games in 2004 Oxford
oarsmen brought home two Gold medals and a Silver.
This remarkable craft, rowed by 12
oarsmen with its Dutch inventor, Cornelius Drebbel, and a few other passengers on board, sailed for three hours underwater
from Westminster to Greenwich.
Assyrian reliefs
from the 8th century BC show Phoenician fighting ships, with two levels of oars, fighting men on a sort of bridge or deck above the
oarsmen, and some sort of ram protruding
from the bow.