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John Francis Coates, OBE (30 March 1922 – 10 July 2010) was a British naval architect best known for his work on the study of construction of the Ancient Greek trireme.His research led to the construction of the first working replica of triremes, the fastest and most devastating warship of Classical Mediterranean empires, and gave a greater understanding of how they were built and used.
Construction of the trireme differed from modern practice. The construction of a trireme was expensive and required around 6,000 man-days of labour to complete. [83] The ancient Mediterranean practice was to build the outer hull first, and the ribs afterwards. To secure and add strength to the hull, cables were employed, fitted in the keel and ...
The trireme derives its name from its three rows of oars, manned with one man per oar. The early trireme was a development of the penteconter, an ancient warship with a single row of 25 oars on each side (i.e., a single-banked boat), and of the bireme (Ancient Greek: διήρης, diērēs), a warship with two banks of oars, of Phoenician ...
John Sinclair Morrison CBE (15 June 1913 – 25 October 2000) was an English classicist whose work led to the reconstruction of an Athenian Trireme, an ancient oared warship. From Lindfield, Sussex , Morrison was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge . [ 1 ]
Another known sacred ship was the Theoris (θεωρίς), a trireme kept for sacred embassies. [5] Most probably the name of the ships derive from: Delia: was called like this because it was used (probably exclusively) for Delian theoriae; Salaminia: was called like this because it was manned originally by natives of Salamis
The trierarchy were rated for a trireme according to their property as stated in the register in such a manner that one trireme was required from 10 talents. If their wealth was valued at a higher than 10 talents they would be assigned up to three triremes and one auxiliary vessel.
Depiction of the position of the rowers in three different levels (from top: thranitai, zygitai and thalamitai) in a Greek trireme. 19th-century interpretation of the quinquereme's oaring system, with five levels of oars. Far less is known with certainty about the construction and appearance of these ships than about the trireme.