trireme

From the logistical and spatial perspectives, each of these triremes could carry around 200 men, with a vast majority of them being rowers.

The era when trireme supremacy meant regional hegemony came to an end not long after that.

Of the Rhodian fleet two quinqueremes and a trireme were destroyed, but no ship was taken.

The arrival of this trireme was thus of very essential service to the Greeks.

He describes the sword as like the beak of the ship known as the trireme, which was rowed with three banks of oars.

It has been like a splendid and richly-dressed trireme sailing, plague-stricken, into a harbor full of ships and boats.

And there, in the soft embracement of the bay, a bird with folded wings asleep—the trireme!