tholes

The large Sutton Hoo ship buried in Mound 1 had between 20 and 40 oars – as the tholes had only survived in places along the gunwale the exact number is unknown - and Martin Carver suggests the most likely number is 28, seven pairs each fore and aft of the mast Carver 1998 p.171.

Early medieval armies: numbers Carla 2010

The large Sutton Hoo ship buried in Mound 1 had between 20 and 40 oars – as the tholes had only survived in places along the gunwale the exact number is unknown - and Martin Carver suggests the most likely number is 28, seven pairs each fore and aft of the mast Carver 1998 p.171.

Archive 2010-06-01 Carla 2010

Those of Harald's band who were still fit and able manned the thwarts, drawing the long oars through the tholes.

Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

Those of Harald's band who were still fit and able manned the thwarts, drawing the long oars through the tholes.

Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

It was eighteen feet long, big-bellied, with two thwarts for oarsmen and four sets of tholes for oars.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

The rudder pintles were greased so they would not squeak and the tholes, which held the oars, were wrapped in rags while the hull and oars were painted black with Stockholm tar.

Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001

The great oars were silent in the tholes, though once they were a few yards from the Vesuvius Collier ordered the men to stop rowing.

Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001

Somehow I fumbled out and got a grip on it again before it slid away between the tholes.

Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

After the sound of their oars on the tholes had died in the distance,

Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

An immense love of fighting breathes in the accounts of Viking warriors, "who are glad when they have hopes of a battle; they will leap up in hot haste and ply the oars, snapping the oar-thongs and cracking the tholes."

Early European History Hutton Webster