triremes

The total number of the triremes was a hundred and thirty-four, and with these sailed a vast fleet of merchant ships, and smaller craft, laden with stores of all kinds, and carrying a whole army of bakers, masons, and carpenters, with the tools of their crafts, and all the engines required for a siege.

Stories from Thucydides

We hear of ships with three ranks of rowers, called triremes, B.C. 700, and long before that time biremes, or ships with two ranks of oars, had been introduced.

How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

We know that in the old navies of the Papal States and the Republics of Venice and Genoa in the Middle Ages and the days of the Renaissance, and in the royal galleys of the old French monarchy, there were no ships with superposed banks of oars, but there were galleys known as "triremes," "quadriremes," and

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

The skeleton crew on the fire ship then jumped overboard and swam toward the waiting triremes, which had just cut their lines and pulled away.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Any unfortunate builders still alive on the mole were picked off by archers in the Tyrian triremes or by raiding parties that dashed onto the mole.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

He utilized improved applications, but the principles of themselves were ever the same, whether in the war chariots of Achilles and Pharaoh or the mail-coach and diligence of the European traveller, the cavalry of the Huns or of Prince Rupert, the triremes and galleys of Greece and Rome or the East Indiamen and clipper ships of the last century.

The Shrinkage of the Planet 2010

This added eighty superb triremes and their crews to his navy.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

They waited until a strong wind was blowing toward the mole and then launched the ship towed by several triremes pulling it with all their might.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Another officer would have autonomous command of the navy, protecting the mouths of the Nile with a fleet of thirty triremes.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

The Tyrians countered with everything they had against the invaders, but other ships took advantage of their distraction to push through the triremes blocking the two harbors into the heart of the city.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011