Hannay, David, 1853-1934 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 29
d not cargo vessels. But we may stay for amoment by the trireme de ire reme e de tre uomini per banco,for it helps us to make a distinction. Observe that theVenetians made experiments. They built boats of four oarsand four men to a bench—quadriremes, and of five oars andfive men to a… … VENETIAN TRIREME. sets of oars, but only tiers of rowers. So the same namestood for very different things. The word frigate, whichbegan by being the name of a rowboat, ended, before it dis-appeared altogether, by being the name of an iron armour-clad screw steamer of 6,000 tons displacement,…
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