Trireme Quinquereme Liburna This could just as easily be presented as The Roman navy included several types of ships, such as the trireme, the quinquereme, and the liburna.
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The quinquereme was the main warship on both sides of the Punic Wars and remained the mainstay of Roman naval forces until replaced by the time of Caesar Augustus by lighter and more maneuverable vessels.
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If a trierarch is the commander of a trireme, what do you call the commander of a penteconter or a quinquereme, etc ? talk ) 04 : 59, 7 June 2012 ( UTC)
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As compared with a trireme, the quinquereme permitted the use of a mix of experienced and inexperienced crewmen ( an advantage for a primarily land-based power ), and its lesser maneuverability permitted the Romans to adopt and perfect ram.
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It is known from references from both the Second Punic War and the Battle of Mylae that the quadrireme had two levels of oarsmen, and was therefore lower than the quinquereme, while being of about the same width ( ca . 5.6 m ).
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The only reference to Carthaginian privateers comes from the First Punic War : one such privateer, Hanno the Rhodian, owned a quinquereme ( faster than the serial production models that the Romans had copied ), manned with about 500 men and then among the heaviest warships in use.
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Leaving aside a deck crew of ca . 20 men, and accepting the 2 2 1 pattern of oarsmen, the quinquereme would have 90 oars in each side, and 30-strong files of oarsmen . which was retained in service in significant numbers by many smaller navies.
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It has been suggested that the introduction of polyremes at the time, particularly of the quinquereme, facilitated the use of little-trained labour, as these warships only needed a skilled man for the position nearest the loom, while the remaining rowers at the oar followed his lead.
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In the eastern Mediterranean, they were superseded as the heaviest ships by the massive polyremes that began appearing in the last two decades of the 4th century, According to Polybius, the Romans seized a shipwrecked Carthaginian quinquereme and used it as a blueprint for their own ships, but it is stated that the Roman copies were heavier than the Carthaginian vessels, which were better built.
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Contrary to some speculation, it does not appear that the weight of the device threatened the stability of the ship when the bridge was raised; according to Bonebaker, Professor of Naval Architecture at Delft, with the estimated weight of one ton for the boarding bridge, it is " most probable that the stability of a quinquereme with a displacement of about would " not " be seriously upset ".
