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During the Roman Empire ships were constructed to transport obelisks from Egypt across the Mediterranean to Rome and Constantinople (modern Istanbul). Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE) and Ammianus Marcellinus (330–393 CE) give accounts of how obelisks were brought to Rome.
The only naval encounters occurred in the first years of the war, at Lilybaeum (218 BC) and the Ebro River (217 BC), both resulting Roman victories. Despite an overall numerical parity, for the remainder of the war the Carthaginians did not seriously challenge Roman supremacy.
Roman naval dominance will go up the next two centuries, winning over the Carthaginians once and for all in 146 BC, and later securing the entire Mediterranean under Pompey the Great. The “Roman Lake” era really came when at the peak of the civil war, Antony and Cleopatra fleet was defeated at Actium in 31 BC.
13 kwi 2014 · In 31 BCE, near Actium on the western coast of Greece, there occurred one of the most significant naval battles in history. Still battling for control of the Roman Empire, Octavian now faced Mark Antony and his ally, the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. Both sides amassed a fleet and made ready to attack the other.
During the conflict with the city of Antium, the Romans threw into battle a fleet of only six ships, while in 348 BCE the Senate ordered war with the Greek colonists living in southern Italy, it was limited only to a demonstrative occupation of the coast on which the Greeks could land.
6 mar 2017 · The ancient Romans built large merchant ships and warships whose size and technology were unequalled until the 16th century CE. Roman seamen navigated across the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean and out into the Atlantic along the coasts of France, England and Africa.
Early Roman warships were all large; to escort merchantmen and combat pirates Rome found need for a lighter type, the liburnian. Probably developed by the pirates themselves, this was originally a light, fast unireme to which the Romans added a second bank of oars.
