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Roman galleys were powered by a combination of sail and oars. They were predominantly fighting vessels and carried from 50 to 80 oarsmen arranged in various rows and tiers dependent on the type of ship and a marine contingent. The sailors would have been highly skilled and formed an elite. The marines would have also been highly skilled in sea fighting and would have been well looked after. The conventional view of the oarsmen is that they were slaves, deserters, criminals and POW's and that they were chained and whipped to produce results. The life of an oarsman in the galleys would not have been easy but they had to have been well fed and fit in order to do their job.
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