Have you seen the video about the huge boat/barges they found on Lake Neri?
I think they were supposed to be owned by either Nero or Commodus and used for pageants and pleasure boating.
They were propelled by slaves at oars. The only downside was when the Emperor wanted to go water skiing.
The remains of the boats were burned by the Nazis.
Caligula, Lake Nemi, dirty freakin’ Nazis did burn ‘em.
Salvaging Caligula [Nemi Ships, Caligula, and Mussolini]
Time | Feb. 4, 1929 | staff
Posted on 11/25/2005 4:40:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1528600/posts
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/miscellanea/nemi/nemi.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20030322012642/http://pages.zoom.co.uk/leveridge/nemi1.jpg
https://www.google.com/images?q=lake+nemi+ship&oe=utf-8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=image_result_group
