A fast and fearsome battleship, the bireme was manned by 44 oarsmen working two banks of oars. |
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It was a special type of bireme, made in such a way so that could be used as a tanker and as a battle ship in the same time. |
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The trireme had 3 banks of oars, and a full spar deck instead of the centre-line gangway of the early bireme. |
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The famous wall-paintings of biremes from the House of the Vettii in Pompeii show biremes, but there is not sufficient detail to specify the type of bireme. |
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He proved to be as headstrong in the woods and on the water as he was artful and deliberate in his shop, and he managed the trip as if he were the owner-skipper of a bireme. |
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This græco-roman bireme is fitted with its characteristic ram: a rostrum. |
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