To: presidio9
Peter the Great built triremes to battle the Swedish Navy in the shallows of the Baltic Sea, and they were quite effective - they would venture out when the winds were calm and wreak havoc upon the becalmed warships.
2 posted on
04/20/2004 8:09:24 AM PDT by
dirtboy
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To: dirtboy
The big problem is that triremes don't sink.
They don't have keels, and they are built as lightly as possible.
When holed, they'd swamp, but they wouldn't sink to the bottom.
3 posted on
04/20/2004 8:11:54 AM PDT by
jdege
To: farmfriend
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11 posted on
04/20/2004 8:50:55 AM PDT by
uglybiker
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