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Since the admirals also doubled as governors
junshan0202 发表于 2012/7/19 16:11:00 |
Since the admirals also doubled as governors of their themes, they were assisted by a ("chief secretary/notary/scribe") who headed the civilian administration of the theme. Further staff officers were the chartoularios in charge of the fleet administration, the ("chief messenger"), who acted as chief of staff, and a number of staff komētes ("counts", sing. komēs), including a komēs tēs hetaireias, who commanded the bodyguard () of the admiral. Squadrons of three or five ships were commanded by a komēs or droungarokomēs, and each ship's captain was called ("centurion"), although literary sources also used more archaic terms like or even .
Each ship's crew, depending on its size, was composed of one to three ousiai. Under the captain, there was the bandophoros ("banner bearer"), who acted as executive officer, two helmsmen called prōtokaraboi ("heads of the ship"), sometimes also referred to archaically as kybernētes, and a bow officer, the prōreus. In actual terms, there would have been several of each kind upon each ship, working in shifts. Most of these rose from the ranks, and there are references in the to first oarsmen (prōtelatai) who rose to become prōtokaraboi in the imperial barges, and later assumed still higher offices, with emperor Romanos Lekapenos being the most successful of them. There were also a number of specialists on board, such as the two bow oarsmen and the siphōnatores, who worked the siphons used for discharging the . A boukinatōr ("trumpeter") is also recorded in the sources, who conveyed orders to the rowers (kōpēlatai or elatai). Since the marine infantry were organized as regular army units, their ranks followed those of the moncler. |
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