Amati's Greek bireme ship model is a faithful reproduction. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.loyalhannadockyard.com/MEGREEKBIR.htm]
To increase the driving force and the speed, they added a second and then a third bank of oars, thus producing the "bireme" and the "trireme.". From Wordnik.com. [A History of Sea Power] Reference
Casca was on a bireme out of Antium when Yesuvius blew and smothered Herculaneum and Pompeii beneath tons of ash and lava. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
Hence find bireme, hemiolia, merchantman, myoparo, quinquereme, sixteener and trireme in the glossary of Fortune's Favorites. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
The galley they were sailing on was a military bireme, twin-oared, a lot different from the trading ship that had brought him to the mines. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
Director Wolfgang Petersen recreates a long-ago world of bireme warships, clashing armies, the massive fortress city and the towering Trojan Horse. From Wordnik.com. [Geek Deal: Troy Blu-Ray for $9.99 | /Film] Reference
At nights, when the sea was quiet and the bireme rocked to and fro with the swells, he would often awake with a jerk, his body soaked in cold sweat as memories rushed on him in his sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
White foam flashed along her sides, and Conan saw the twinkle of sunlight on dripping water from her double bank of oars - a bireme, with a high, curved prow carved of brass into the likeness of a dragon's head. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
So that even now, when the hortator of the bireme struck the skin hide of the drum to set the measure for the oarsmen, Casca could feel a twinge seem to ripple over his back, for a slave master's lash, on the galley he had slaved on, had made its mark there. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
But, once discharged the dromond's hold, the bireme beached once more. From Wordnik.com. [Traffics and Discoveries] Reference
I tell you, it was not a happy sight to see a Greek bireme or trireme suddenly row over the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Payson Roundup stories] Reference
In this action a quinquereme was taken, and a bireme, with all the soldiers and mariners on board, besides three sunk, without any loss on our side. From Wordnik.com. [Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars: with the Supplementary Books attributed to Hirtius.] Reference
But it is not so easy to see how the oar of a common row-boat, or the uppermost tier of a bireme, obtained their purchase on the vessel, and were prevented from slipping along its side. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
Naval architecture had recently made great strides, first by the inventiveness of the Phœnicians, who introduced the bireme, and then by the skill of the Greeks, who, improving on the hint furnished them, constructed the trireme. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Egypt] Reference
The bireme and the trireme were adopted by the Greeks, apparently without alteration, save that at Salamis the Greek galleys were said to have been more strongly built and to have presented a lower freeboard than those of the Phnicians. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Sea Power] Reference
Finally, the principle of the bireme was adopted, and river-galleys were constructed of such a size that they had to be manned by thirty rowers, who sat in two tiers one above the other at the sides of the galley, while the centre part, which seems to have been decked, was occupied by eight or ten other persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
Will you now throw goods over the side at the sight of a naval bireme, or abandon our wounded to the excisemen? ". From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Victorious]
The vessel shown is a bireme with two decks. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Navigium bireme. From Wordnik.com. [Suidae Lexicon, Græce & Latine] Reference
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