Napoleon III commissioned one of his engineers to build one of these with mixed results, while a modern one successfully constructed by Frank Welsh is known as the Olympia.  
Napoleon III commissioned one of his engineers to build one of these with mixed results, while a modern one successfully constructed by Frank Welsh is known as the Olympia.  They typically employed thranitai, zygitai and thalamioi workers, and they improved on older models like the triakonteros. Despite what Herodotus claimed, it is unlikely that the Egyptians under Necho had them because they were not used by the Carthaginians at Alalia to combat penteconters.  Many Athenian ones were destroyed at the Battle of Aegospotami, but before that point their ability to ram and unload some 30 Athenian marines led to the defeat of the Persian fleet at Salamis.  FTP, identify this type of ship noted for its three rows of oars.
Napoleon III commissioned one of his engineers to build one of these with mixed results, while a modern one successfully constructed by Frank Welsh is known as the Olympia.  
{Trireme} (also accept {triremis} or {triērēs})