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the warship that needed three hundred sweating men just to row in a straight line
crew sizearound 300 rowers and crew aboard one ship
the namemeans five, but oars were stacked in threes
weapon of choiceits reinforced bronze ram, not arrows or boarders
roman copycatRome reverse-engineered theirs from a wrecked Carthaginian one
oar mysteryexact rower arrangement still debated by historians today