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    A trireme (/ˈtraɪriːm/ TRY-reem; derived from Latin: trirēmis, "with three banks of oars"; cf. Ancient Greek: triērēs, literally "three-rower") was an...
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  • Trireme Partners LLP was a US limited partnership venture capital company that invested in technology, goods, and services related to Homeland Security...
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    Olympias is a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme and an important example of experimental archaeology. It is also a commissioned ship in the...
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    types of oared warships appeared in the Mediterranean Sea, superseding the trireme and transforming naval warfare. Ships became increasingly large and heavy...
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    and small pleasure crafts called pamphyles. The next development, the trireme, keeping the length of the bireme, added a tier to the height, the rowers...
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    powered by oarsmen, sometimes stacked in multiple levels such as biremes or triremes, and many of which also had sails. Initial efforts of the Romans to construct...
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    arranged in 15–30 pairs, from monoremes with a single line of oars to triremes with three lines of oars in a tiered arrangement. Occasionally, much larger...
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  • τριήραρχος, romanized: triērarchos) was the title of officers who commanded a trireme (triēres) in the classical Greek world. In Classical Athens, the title...
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    English classicist whose work led to the reconstruction of an Athenian Trireme, an ancient oared warship. From Lindfield, Sussex, Morrison was professor...
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    of files. Polyremes comprise the trireme (3 files), quadrireme, quinquereme, hexareme or sexireme (probably a trireme with two rowers per oar), septireme...
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    yachts and superyachts Sail training and sailing ships Galleys - biremes, triremes and quinquiremes Recreational boats and craft – rowed, masted and motorised...
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  • Triremes, besides the transport of troops and supplies, would be the advantages of ramming tactics. Developments and innovations of the Greek Trireme...
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    guidance of the Athenian politician Themistocles, to build a massive fleet of triremes that would be necessary for the Greeks to fight the Persians. However,...
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    Outriggers Single-outrigger Catamaran Trimaran Polyremes Bireme Oared warships Trireme Quadrireme Quinquereme Hexareme Tessarakonteres Raft Reed boat Sailing...
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  • Quadrireme Quinquereme Rocket vessel Schooner Ship of the line Sloop-of-war Trireme Xebec Aircraft carrier Anti-submarine warfare carrier Helicopter carrier...
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    Balangay Boita Borobudur ship Dhow Fire ship Galley Penteconter Bireme Trireme Quadriremes Tessarakonteres Dromon Junk K'un-lun po Lepa Mtepe Uru Post-classical...
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    utilized to fund the construction of 200 triremes; the Athenian fleet was transferred to Piraeus, and the triremes were built in its shipyards. The Athenian...
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  • properties. The residents of Istiaia, who had butchered the crew of an Athenian trireme, were uprooted and replaced by 2,000 Athenian settlers. The arrangement...
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  • to: Paralus (place), a former place in Egypt Paralus (ship), an Athenian trireme Paralus, a son of Pericles, see Paralus and Xanthippus fighting words This...
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    "Πολεμικό Ναυτικό - Επίσημη Ιστοσελίδα - Trireme OLYMPIAS". www.hellenicnavy.gr. Retrieved 2022-06-13. "The Trireme Olympias and the Hellenic Maritime Museum...
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    reconstructions of penteconters, as well as other ancient ship designs such as triremes, crewed by modern untrained amateurs, attained that top speed fairly easily...
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  • talents of silver (roughly 390 kg). This sum could have paid the wages of a trireme crew for 15 months, or bought 540 metric tons of wheat, enough to feed...
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    Outriggers Single-outrigger Catamaran Trimaran Polyremes Bireme Oared warships Trireme Quadrireme Quinquereme Hexareme Tessarakonteres Raft Reed boat Sailing...
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  • Model of Ancient Greek Trireme in Athens, Greece...
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    century BC Greek alphabet, the first alphabet with vowels. 7th century BC Trireme 6th century BC Paved trackway Pythagorean theorem Monotheism 5th century...
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    Outriggers Single-outrigger Catamaran Trimaran Polyremes Bireme Oared warships Trireme Quadrireme Quinquereme Hexareme Tessarakonteres Raft Reed boat Sailing...
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    Mediterranean Sea. Bireme, an ancient vessel, propelled by two banks of oars. Trireme, an ancient warship propelled by three banks of oars. Quadrireme, an ancient...
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    Balangay Boita Borobudur ship Dhow Fire ship Galley Penteconter Bireme Trireme Quadriremes Tessarakonteres Dromon Junk K'un-lun po Lepa Mtepe Uru Post-classical...
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    again. According to Herodotus, Darius's canal was wide enough that two triremes could pass each other with oars extended, and required four days to traverse...
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    rowers ensured that the second trireme arrived just in time; Paches had only just read the decree brought by the first trireme but had not yet carried out...
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