Building
The 2 primary woods used for building triremes.
What are fir and pine?
A later Roman ship based on the trireme but having two people to each oar.
What is quadrireme?
This strategy for triremes would trap enemy ships in the middle.
What is encirclement?
The amount of oarsmen on each ship.
What is 170?
The method used to connect planks in the hull.
What is mortise-and-tenon?
What is liburnian?
The strategy where a trireme would go between two ships then turn around and ram one.
The maximum speed of a trireme for a short time.
What is 15 mph?
The amount of decks in triremes
What is 3?
A later ship based on a Trireme with 3 people per oar.
Quinquereme
The battle where 200 Athenian triremes defeated up to 600 Persian ships.
What is Battle of Salamis?
The amount of marines on each trireme.
What is 10.
The people who payed for triremes to be built.
What is Trierarch/wealthy citizens?
A ship with two decks of oarsmen that influenced the trireme.
What is bireme?
This battle during the Ionian Revolt where the Greek navies lost to Persia.
What is the Battle of Lade?
This aquatic mammal that triremes were designed off of.
What is whale?