Barbaroslar Episode 01 English Subtitle | Turkey Tv Series
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GALLEYS OF THE RAIDERS
Barbaroslar Episode 01 English Subtitle | Turkey Tv Series Majestically the great galley drove on southward bound down the coast. Her consort followed in the distance, out of sight below the horizon’s rim. To port of the leading vessel, the tawny hills behind the coastal plain of western Italy burned under the summer sun. To starboard lay the rocky island of Capraia.
Barbaroslar Bangla subtitle Beyond it, Corsica’s northern peninsula reared against the hard blue sky. The sea was calm, and there was too little wind to fill the great lateen sails. So the two ships came with no less than ten leagues asunder, careless, indolently passive, and, according to custom. in very indifferent order. It was the year 1504.
The two galleys so innocently running down the Italian coast belonged to no less a dignitary than Pope Julius II. At that time, the occupant of St. Peter’s chair was not averse to a little speculation in mercantile trading. The galleys had recently loaded at Genoa with locally manufactured goods, imported luxuries, and silks and spices from the East.
They were bound for the port of Civitavecchia, a little north of Rome, to unload their goods for transport to the capital by road. The leading galley was the papal flagship, an ornate and elaborately decorated vessel the flower of the shipbuilder’s craft.
About 150 feet in length, riding the sea to the easy beat of her oars, she looked from a distance more like a work of art than a practical vessel designed for war or commerce. Her sails were brailed along the two great curving yards that soared like wings above her fore and main masts.
Except with a fair and following wind from astern, when she could run goose winged before it, she mainly depended on the motive power of her rowers. Now, in the high Mediterranean summer, the rowers got little respite. At the prow and poop, a short deck provided accommodation for the fighting men and the sailors who worked the yards.
They were at rest, reclining under awnings, anticipating no danger in this pacific part of the Italian seaboard. There were also trumpeters and heralds, those guardians of the pomp and authority. So dear to the heart of Renaissance Europe. The poop itself was elaborately carved, painted, and gilded. barbaroslar bangla subtitle
It flaunted a purple damask awning under which the captain, chief officers, and other gentry embarked for the passage sat at ease. On a special platform above the poop. The pilot and the helmsman directed the great vessel. The one giving his orders for the course while the other leaned against the long tiller attached to the center-line rudder.
Apart from the center-line rudder in place of the old steering oar, there was little about this galley that would have been unfamiliar to the ancient Romans or the Greeks. Perhaps a certain improvement in the sails—lateens instead of square sails—and a greater degree of color and decoration might have been remarked. Other than that, the main distinguishing feature of the galley.
The original reason for her whole existence as a fighting ship—had little changed throughout the centuries. The great beaked prow standing out proudly from the forward fighting platform was a direct legacy of the ram of the classical world. Although techniques of fighting had changed with the advent of artillery—the forward guns taking over much of the old friends of the ram—it remained an integral part of the warship.
The long prow could still use to impale the ship’s side of an enemy. At the same time, the fighting men harassed her with arquebus fire and crossbow bolts and arrows until they could leap aboard and take her with cold steel. Beautiful indeed as such a ship. Another side to her explained the perfumes. Barbaroslar Episode 01 English Subtitle | Turkey Tv Series
And unguents wore by the gentry on the poop or held to their noses in delicately pierced pomanders. “It is not necessary to look far to find an extreme contrast with the pride of the galley’s appearance. When the galley dazzles one’s eyes with her sculptures, her draperies, and her movement through the water, she affronts one’s nostrils. She exudes throughout her whole length the utmost misery.
Now, as the papal galley altered course slightly to pass through the five-mile-wide channel between the island of Elba and the mainland of Italy. A watcher standing on the rocky cliffs of Palomino might have thought her beautiful indeed. The same way in which, between each stroke. The blades of her oars as momentarily suspended above the water.
Like the wings of a hovering falcon would have entranced the eye. Then, as they dipped again in one easy flowing motion, she glided swiftly forward. But it was the motive power for these oars, the wretched toiling men, who made the galley repulsive to the nostrils in their semidarkness and stench. Hygiene was little comprehended in the sixteenth century.
Even though regularly pumped out, a galley’s bilges were foul from men who what compelled to urinate and defecate at the benches where they labored in their chains. Below decks in the long waist of the ship, seated four, five, or six at the heavy looms of the oars, the galley’s “machinery” was at work. “They are chained six to a bench,” one who was himself a galley enslaved person tells us. The benches are 4 ft extensive protected with sacking stuffed wool over that’s thrown sheepskins attain to the deck below them.
The officer, the master of the galley enslaved people, remains with the captain to receive his orders. There are two under officers, one amidship and one at the prow, and all of them armed with whips, with which they flog the naked bodies of the enslaved people. When the captain offers the order to row. The officer gives the signal with a silver whistle that hangs on a cord around his neck.
The signal is repeated by the under officers. And very soon, all the fifty oars strike the water as if one. Imagine six guys chained to a bench as bare as they had been born. One foot at the stretcher, the alternative raised.And located on the bench in front of them, retaining an oar of the mammoth weight of their hands. Stretching our bodies closer to the after part of the galley. Barbaroslar Episode 01 English Subtitle | Turkey Tv Series
With palms prolonged to push the loom of the oar. Clear the backs of those in front of them with An identical attitude. They plunge the blades of the oars into the water and throw themselves back, falling onto the seat which bends beneath their weight. Sometimes the galley enslaved people row thus ten, twelve, or even twenty hours at a stretch without the slightest respite or rest.
On these occasions, the officer will go round, putting into the mouths of the wretched rower pieces of bread soaked in wine to prevent them from fainting. Small wonder then that Grosso, a North Italian visitor to Rome, viewing some Turkish galley enslaved people, could remark: “Poor creatures! They must envy the dead.”
Most of these men who drove the beautiful papal galley on her way down the coast were Moslems—either captured Turks, Arabs, or Moors from the North African coast. The complement of the oar benches was also reinforced by condemned criminals and by the third class of galley enslaved people, the “volunteers. Barbaroslar Episode 01 English Subtitle | Turkey Tv Series
The latter were men who had fallen into debt and preferred to serve at the oar to escape the harsh punishment inflicted on debtors. Their small wages were paid directly to their creditors until their debts were discharged. But increasingly throughout the sixteenth century, as the conflict between East and West in the Mediterranean reached new heights, the captured and enslaved enemy formed the bulk of the crew below decks.
