Übersetzung für 'quadrireme' von Englisch nach Deutsch

quadrireme

Tetrere {f}hist.

Quadrireme {f}hist.

Vierruderer {m}hist.

• Carthaginian forces had encountered Syracusan quinqueremes at Motya and are credited with inventing the quadrireme, but it is not known if these ship types were present at Catana in 397 BC.
• By 79 this fleet had probably nothing larger than a quadrireme in service, for Pliny the Elder, commander of the fleet, investigated the eruption of Vesuvius in a quadrireme, presumably his flagship and the largest class of vessel in the fleet.
• The Romans finally caught and defeated him making use of a captured Carthaginian quadrireme.
• Hellenistic-era warships grew from the trireme to include more banks of oars and larger numbers of rowers and soldiers as in the Quadrireme and Quinquereme.
• lists all the officers, specialist crew and marines who served aboard a quadrireme ("tetreres") from Kos under the ship's captain ("trierarchos") Kleonikos and the, evidently Rhodian, admiral ("nauarchos") Eudamas.

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• Each oar being operated by several rowers, this can also be suitable for a Quadrireme (4 files of rowers) or a Quinquereme (5 files of rowers).