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The bireme was twice the triaconter's length and height, and thus employed 120 rowers. Biremes were galleys, galleasses, dromons, and small pleasure crafts called pamphyles. The next development, the trireme, keeping the length of the bireme, added a tier to the height, the rowers being thus increased to 180. [4] It also had a large square sail.
Bireme & Galley was written by Jan Vrapcenak, Edward E. Simbalist, and Terry Cheesman, and was published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1978 as a 104-page book with 10 cardstock sheets and a clear plastic overlay. [2] Shannon Appelcline noted that "From 1977-1979 C&S was supplemented by more than half-a-dozen books.
It made galleys faster, more maneuverable and sturdier. Phoenician shipbuilders were likely the first to build two-level galleys, and bireme designs were soon adopted and further developed by the Greeks. [22] A third bank of oar was added by attaching an outrigger to a bireme. The outrigger was a projecting frame that gave additional leverage ...
BIREME, as a specialized center of PAHO/WHO, coordinates and conducts technical cooperation activities on the management of scientific information and knowledge with the aim of strengthening and expanding the flow of scientific health information in Brazil and in other Latin American and Caribbean countries as a key condition for the development of health, including its planning, management ...
After processing the available scientific data using ancient illustrations on vases and reliefs, as well as written and archaeological sources, members of the Odesa Archeological Museum, under the direction of Prof. Vladimir N. Stanko, Ph.D., proposed the building of a bireme because, in antiquity, it had been the most widely used vessel in the ...
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The most common theory on the arrangement of oarsmen in the new ship types is that of "double-banking", i.e., that the quadrireme was derived from a bireme (warship with two rows of oars) by placing two oarsmen on each oar, the quinquereme from a trireme by placing two oarsmen on the two uppermost levels (the thranitai and zygitai, according to ...
Investment management company Bireme Capital recently released its third-quarter 2022 investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. In the third quarter, the fund outperformed and ...