Bronze age ships are amazing. I once contemplated constructing a full size unireme like the one in Mainz Schiffs Museum below, but after gathering books and research material and realizing all the thousands of precise mortise and tenons required to join the hull planks together, I gave up the project. Why the Rhine River galley has a replica of the repeating catapulta of Dionysius on the deck, is beyond me. That catapulta was a prototype that never went into production due to complexity and cost, and pre-dates this Roman river galley by a few hundred years, plus it was developed in Rhodes, not Germania.
Ancient Egyptian vessel.
Mediterranean style hull design, complicated beyond belief, but producing a thin, light, flexible hull for speed.
Greek unireme, the light destroyer of the ancient world.
Greek Ship Olympius now owned by the Hellenic Navy. Due to a length measurement miscalculation, it was not as fine a vessel as it should be, and was not able to obtain the rated speed 19 knots, but fell several knots short of that.
Ancient Egyptian vessel.
Mediterranean style hull design, complicated beyond belief, but producing a thin, light, flexible hull for speed.
Greek unireme, the light destroyer of the ancient world.
Greek Ship Olympius now owned by the Hellenic Navy. Due to a length measurement miscalculation, it was not as fine a vessel as it should be, and was not able to obtain the rated speed 19 knots, but fell several knots short of that.
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