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Each grapnel, with its rope and chain, was launched from a small engine, a tiny catapult, mounted between the benches. - (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 16, Sentence #196)

I retrieved a sword from the deck, and went to the side. I also heard a striking at the sides of the great ship, like a rain of wood, and smelled burning pitch. Each of the small boats, as far as I could tell, was similarly equipped. Each grapnel, with its rope and chain, was launched from a small engine, a tiny catapult, mounted between the benches. And behind the catapult was a vat, filled, from the odor, with burning pitch. Archers were dipping arrows, whose shaft, behind the point, was wrapped in cloth, which cloth was then saturated with flaming pitch, which arrows, one after another, were then being fired into the hull. This, doubtless, was what had been determined earlier by Cabot, with the glass of the Builders. - (Mariners of Gor)