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Concrete ships are built primarily with ferrocement (reinforced concrete) hulls, reinforced with steel bars. [1] This contrasts against more traditional materials, such as pure steel or wood. The advantage of ferrocement construction is that materials are cheap and readily available, while the disadvantages are that construction labor costs are ...
Olympias achieved a speed of 9 knots (17 km/h) and was able to perform 180 degree turns within one minute, in an arc no wider than two and a half (2.5) ship-lengths. These results, achieved with an inexperienced, mixed crew, suggest that ancient historians like Thucydides were not exaggerating about the capabilities of triremes.
At the Battle of Arginusae for example, 263 ships were involved, making for a total of 55,000 men, and at the Battle of Aegospotami more than 300 ships and 60,000 seamen were involved. [67] In Battle of Aegospotami , the city-state of Athens lost what was left of its navy: the once 'invincible' thalassocracy lost 170 ships (costing some 400 ...
Map of Homeric Greece. In the debate since antiquity over the Catalogue of Ships, the core questions have concerned the extent of historical credibility of the account, whether it was composed by Homer himself, to what extent it reflects a pre-Homeric document or memorized tradition, surviving perhaps in part from Mycenaean times, or whether it is a result of post-Homeric development. [2]
In the great wars of the 5th century BC, such as the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, the trireme was the heaviest type of warship used by the Mediterranean navies. [3] [4] The trireme (Greek: τρῐήρης (triḗrēs), "three-oared") was propelled by three banks of oars, with one oarsman each.
[4] [5] Commissioning of the first ship will happen in early 2025 [6] with parts of the ships built in the Salamis shipyards in Greece. Missile Boats (19) Super Vita (Roussen class) HS Roussen: HS Roussen HS Daniolos HS Krystallidis HS Grigoropoulos HS Ritsos HS Karathanasis HS Vlahakos. P67 P68 P69 P70 P71 P78 P79 Ρουσσέν Δανιόλος
Pages in category "Ships of ancient Greece" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Athenian sacred ...
Syracusia (Greek: Συρακουσία, syrakousía, literally "of Syracuse") was an ancient Greek ship sometimes claimed to be the largest transport ship of antiquity. [1] She was reportedly too big for any port in Sicily, and thus only sailed once from Syracuse in Sicily to Alexandria in the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt , whereupon she was ...