Sentences with phrase «oarsmen from»

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.
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