| A fast and fearsome battleship, the bireme was manned by 44 oarsmen working two banks of oars. |
| This Greek bireme, with its shallow hull and lofty, open superstructure, could hardy have been a seaworthy vessel. |
| The trireme had 3 banks of oars, and a full spar deck instead of the centre-line gangway of the early bireme. |
| It was a special type of bireme, made in such a way so that could be used as a tanker and as a battle ship in the same time. |
| Soon they tacked far to the north, and, rounding to the west, crossed the bows of the bireme of Herodotus. |
| This græco-roman bireme is fitted with its characteristic ram: a rostrum. |
