A guy with a rhythm drum and a dude shouting “ramming speed!” as well.
I see hatred in your eyes, forty-one....
“A guy with a rhythm drum and a dude shouting “ramming speed!” as well.”
The most important ‘cruise control component” on an oar powered vessel was the deck ape with the whip.
This is completely off topic, but every time I see a reference to those galleys, I think of an ad-lib from Tim Conway on the Carol Burnett Show.
The skit involved he and Harvey Corman as slaves on a galley. Corman says he has an escape plan and shows Conway a key he secretly carved out the the ball on his ball-and-chain. About then, one of the overseers walks by and grabs the item, saying "AHA! A key!"
Conway innocently looks up at the guy and says, "Oh, you speak Spanish." I spewed all over the living room. The guy who played the overseer didn't bat an eye, whether because he didn't get it or because he was one helluva professional.
A few years later, working the graveyard shift at Wal-Mart, a Mexican co-worker asked me if I had "a key" to some display. I pulled a Conway on her and for a moment she had a "Doh!" look on her face, they doubled over in laughter.