• Thumbnail for Trireme
    A trireme (/ˈtraɪriːm/ TRY-reem; derived from Latin: trirēmis "with three banks of oars"; cf. Greek triērēs, literally "three-rower") was an ancient vessel...
    49 KB (6,829 words) - 09:11, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Olympias (trireme)
    Olympias is a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme and an important example of experimental archaeology. It is also a commissioned ship in the...
    10 KB (861 words) - 08:25, 1 May 2024
  • Trireme Partners LLP was a US limited partnership venture capital company that invested in technology, goods, and services related to Homeland Security...
    5 KB (471 words) - 21:12, 17 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hellenistic-era warships
    types of oared warships appeared in the Mediterranean Sea, superseding the trireme and transforming naval warfare. Ships became increasingly large and heavy...
    36 KB (4,707 words) - 18:22, 10 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ships of ancient Rome
    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...
    51 KB (8,504 words) - 01:42, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bireme
    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...
    5 KB (565 words) - 10:44, 13 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for John Sinclair Morrison
    English classicist whose work led to the reconstruction of an Athenian Trireme, an ancient oared warship. Born in 1913, Morrison was professor of Greek...
    4 KB (336 words) - 10:41, 13 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Salamis
    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,...
    71 KB (7,842 words) - 03:58, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Galley
    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...
    123 KB (16,085 words) - 05:45, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of ship types
    of files. Polyremes comprise the trireme (3 files), quadrireme, quinquereme, hexareme or sexireme (probably a trireme with two rowers per oar), septireme...
    11 KB (1,634 words) - 20:57, 4 October 2023