There are many different galleys in almost every seaside nation. How they have been used and where is explained in this chapter:

• Ancient Galleys

• Gears, Galleys, and Geography: The Antikythera Mechanism's Implications

• The Last Galleys ("..We all know that galleys were widely used in the ancient Mediterranean world. But when do you suppose navies quit using galleys and galley slaves? Well, they didn't die out until late in the reign of Louis XIV, in the early 1700s..." - Article)

• The Trireme. The Athenian Fighting Ship ("..The Trireme (Greek trieres) was the "state of the art" fighting ship designed to be able to cover long distances quickly under oar and sail, and in battle to ram enemy ships with devastating effect...")

• Roman Quinqueremes vs. Greek Trireme ("..The construction and requirements of a Greek trireme differed from that of a Roman quinquereme. The materials used by both ancient cultures to build their ships were different. Roman ships were built out of..." - Warships Techniques)

• The Trireme Trust ("..The Trireme Trust was formed in 1982 by Frank Welsh, John Morrison and John Coates with the following aims: To resolve a long-standing controversy about the design of this historically important type of ship, to discover its true performance at sea, to enable the realities of sea power at that time to be understood and to draw attention to the maritime and technical skills which were the keys to the cultural achievements and lasting influence of ancient Athens.." - Detailed Site!)

• How was a trireme built? ("..For many centuries people have speculated about the way the warships of the ancient Greeks and Romans were built. Most controversial is the trireme (Greek trièrès, Latin triremis) in which three rowers sat next to each other on each side (six in a row in total). Two attempts have been made to build a full-size replica of a trireme: in the 19th century under Napoleon III and..." - Detailed article)

• The Hellenistic Galley ("..The oared galleys found in Homer were usually Pentekontors with fifty oarsmen in two files of twenty five per side. Since the minimum i distance between oarsmen (the interscalm) cannot be much less than.." - Overview)

• Triremes ("..Once the principle of multiple banking had been grasped it was not difficult to extend it to the three banks and by the C5th three banked warships known as triremes were the standard warships of the ancient world. Understanding exactly what the trireme was has been a source of formidable difficulty for classical scholars.." - Detailed; with images)

• Merchant Galleys - iconography ("..Iconographic evidence for ancient merchant ships is harder to establish because they appear less frequently in paintings and sculptures than the more spectacular warships. Literary and iconographic evidence is thus even less helpful than usual. The Greeks and the Romans clearly distinguished between galleys and sailing ships..")

• Coventry Boatbuilders Restorations and Replicas and Daveys ("..We specialise in the restoration of vintage boats.." - Especially see the "KYRENIA" link. Detailed Site!)

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