quinquereme

Had she turned into a full-rigged ship or a quinquereme, I would not have been surprised.

Here I had my first sight of a quinquereme, as high as a two-floored house.

But it was cleat that the Bishop did not know a frigate from a quinquereme.

The quinquereme was always decked, and had room on board for marines and artillery.

Quinquereme, an ancient warship propelled by three banks of oars.

The shadows in its heart seemed to move, though perhaps that was an illusion caused by the quinquereme's sideways wobble.

Two of the quinquereme's five banks of oarsmen had been rowing her.

From the mid-4th century, however, at about the time the quinquereme was introduced in Phoenicia, there is evidence of ships without outriggers.

Then the quinquereme leapt forward in pursuit.

A new quinquereme costs a hundred talents, but we had to hire Marcus Antoniuss fleet.

The flagship was a massive quinquereme that wobbled because its hull had to be high enough to carry five banks of oars.

Nay, as we saw now, she was a quinquereme, one of the new five-banked ships built by Ochus, a mighty monster.

The Illyrians took four triremes and sank a quinquereme, while the rest of the Greeks managed to escape.

But hell, this was the Queen's show-off vessel – her private quinquereme, her burnished throne burning on the water.

He hired workmen to create new weapons like the Catapult and new ships like the Quinquereme.

The Syracuse navy was built around the Quinquereme, an invention attributed to Dionysius, and the trireme.

I used to love a Lush soap named Quinquereme of Nineveh, now deleted (shame!)

In this way they captured 4 quadriremes and sunk with all hands a quinquereme, on board of which was Margos of Keryneia.

During the early 4th century BC however, variants of the trireme design began to appear: the invention of the quinquereme (Gk.

Roman Quinquereme or Five Invented in 397BC, these vessels remained in general use until 31BC.

The Romans then captured a Phoenician quinquereme in 261 BC. They made 100 replicas in two months!

The quinquereme provided the workhorse of the Roman and Carthaginian fleets throughout their conflicts, although "fours" and "threes" are also mentioned.

For the rest, the quinquereme was decked, the upper oars lay within an outrigger, and it had room on board for marines and some pieces of artillery.

He also put down rebellions against his rule and hired workmen to create new weapons such as the catapult and new ships such as the Quinquereme.

The great quinquereme proceeded along the shore under the thrust of only one bank of oars, giving her just enough way on that she didn't wallow in the surf.