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Given the imperfect nature of the reconstructed ship, as well as the fact that it was manned by totally untrained modern men and women, it is reasonable to suggest that ancient triremes, expertly built and navigated by trained men, would attain higher speeds. The distance a trireme could cover in a given day depended much on the weather.
An ancient Greek trireme.. Athenian sacred ships were ancient Athenian ships, often triremes, which had special religious functions such as serving in sacred processions (theoria) or embassies or racing in boat races during religious festivals. [1]
In addition to the rowers, other personnel aboard triremes included 14 marines and some spare rowers and oars in case they were needed. [4] In 480 BC, each trireme carried 200 men and 30 marines, according to Herodotus. [4] Triremes were too crowded to store their own supplies, and relied on support vessels for food and water. [12]
After every trip the triremes were pulled ashore in special slides and the hypozomata was re-tightened. The trireme hulls were constructed from planks with closely spaced and pegged mortise and tenon joints. When these are fitted carefully the hull can carry shear stresses well and stay watertight.
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Graham, A. J. (1992), "Thucydides 7.13.2 and the Crews of Athenian Triremes", Transactions of the American Philological Association, vol. 122, pp. 257– 270 Hunt, Peter (2001), "The Slaves and Generals of Arginusae", American Journal of Philology , vol. 122, pp. 359– 380
The "double-banking" theory is supported by the fact that the 4th-century quinqueremes were housed in the same ship sheds as the triremes, and must therefore have had similar width (c. 16 feet (4.9 m)), which fits with the idea of an evolutionary progression from the one type to the other. [13]