GREEK GALLEY about 600 B.C.
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:58 pm
The stamp issued in 1958 by Greece depicts a galley from the 600 B.C. The image is after a painting on vases and bowls of Doric pottery
The galley was an elegant and light craft, which we known from the classical antiquity. We known that she were light, the crew could easily pull the craft onshore during the night.
The keel was the backbone of the craft en when fitted out as a warship the fighting bridge which did run from fore to aft was an extra strengthening. The stem rises before the fighting bridge and was fitted out with a beak, not sure of the beak was a fixed extension of the keel.
By some images it looks that the oars are lying on the gunwale on others that the oars piercing the hull, others show her with the oars on outriggers.
The length of the hull was fixed on the numbers or rowers on board, mostly 50.
The stamp depicts a one tier galley which is under sail, not any oars visible only the steering oars. Most probably a merchant ship.
The length including the beak was about 24 metres, with a beam of around 3 metres.
Greece 1958 3.50 Dr, sg 782, scott?
Congo Kinshasa 2001 10Fc sg?, scott?
Source: Various web-sites.
The galley was an elegant and light craft, which we known from the classical antiquity. We known that she were light, the crew could easily pull the craft onshore during the night.
The keel was the backbone of the craft en when fitted out as a warship the fighting bridge which did run from fore to aft was an extra strengthening. The stem rises before the fighting bridge and was fitted out with a beak, not sure of the beak was a fixed extension of the keel.
By some images it looks that the oars are lying on the gunwale on others that the oars piercing the hull, others show her with the oars on outriggers.
The length of the hull was fixed on the numbers or rowers on board, mostly 50.
The stamp depicts a one tier galley which is under sail, not any oars visible only the steering oars. Most probably a merchant ship.
The length including the beak was about 24 metres, with a beam of around 3 metres.
Greece 1958 3.50 Dr, sg 782, scott?
Congo Kinshasa 2001 10Fc sg?, scott?
Source: Various web-sites.