Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Isthmus with the Canal of Corinth close to where the diolkos ran. Strategic position of the Isthmus of Corinth between two seas. The Diolkos (Δίολκος, from the Greek dia διά, "across", and holkos ὁλκός, "portage machine" [1]) was a paved trackway near Corinth in Ancient Greece which enabled boats to be moved overland across the Isthmus of Corinth.
Olympias (trireme) Olympias. (trireme) Continuous (crew rowing in turns) 4.0 kilometres per hour (2.5 mph) 2.15 knots (estimated). Olympias is a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme and an important example of experimental archaeology. It is also a commissioned ship in the Hellenic Navy of Greece, the only commissioned vessel of its ...
An inscription from the island of Cos, dated to the First Mithridatic War, provides us with a list of a ship's officers, the nautae: the gubernator (kybernētēs in Greek) was the helmsman or pilot, the celeusta (keleustēs in Greek) supervised the rowers, a proreta (prōreus in Greek) was the look-out stationed at the bow, a pentacontarchos ...
In September 1964 she served as the flagship of the Royal Danish Flotilla sailing to Greece to celebrate the marriage of the Greek King Constantine II to the Danish Princess Anne-Marie. After that, she was officially reclassified as a training ship.
Fleet of triremes made up of photographs of the modern full-sized replica Olympias. A trireme (/ ˈ t r aɪ r iː m / TRY-reem; derived from Latin: trirēmis, [1] "with three banks of oars"; cf. Ancient Greek: triērēs, [2] literally "three-rower") was an ancient vessel and a type of galley that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean Sea, especially the ...
Pages in category "Ships of ancient Greece". The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Also in the Aegean Sea, on 27 April 1942, near Kastelorizo, a flotilla of MAS rescued a motor sailing boat with Jewish refugees from Romania. [11] On 15 March 1943, MAS 545 and 559 seized the Greek motor sailing ship Aghios Dimitros, which had been taken over by a British Army boarding party from the Greek submarine Papanicolos and was being ...
The Greek flotilla, which included the armored cruiser Georgios Averof and three Hydra-class ironclads, sailing from the island of Lemnos, altered course to the northeast to block the advance of the Ottoman battleships. [22] The Ottoman ships opened fire on the Greeks at 9:40, from a range of about 15,000 yd (14,000 m).