11-18-2003, 07:49 PM
I wonder, some kind of treatment was required to make the timber durable in the sea, otherwise the ship lifespan would be very short, were they that kind of "expendable" ships? OTH I remember having read somewhere that triremes could not stand ramming twice in a battle, because the shock would be too much for the feeble structure of the ship <p></p><i></i>