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Galleys were the primary warships used by the ancient Mediterranean naval powers, including the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans. The galley remained the dominant type of vessel used for war and piracy in the Mediterranean Sea until the start of the early modern period.
galley, large seagoing vessel propelled primarily by oars. The Egyptians, Cretans, and other ancient peoples used sail-equipped galleys for both war and commerce.
Oared vessel tactics were the dominant form of naval tactics used from antiquity to the late 16th century when sailing ships began to replace galleys and other types of oared ships as the principal form of warships.
A figurehead is a carved wooden decoration found at the bow of ships, generally of a design related to the name or role of a ship. They were predominant between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and modern ships' badges fulfil a similar role.
20 kwi 2015 · On the obverse, Nike (winged goddess of victory) stands on a platform at the richly decorated prow of a galley, blowing a trumpet. She holds a ship’s mast, symbolic of sea power.
5 sie 2011 · It is obvious to any one looking at the actual reproduced illustration in full detail of the vessel one can clearly see that the ships prow is in the shape of a birds head much like that of the sea...
The merchant-galley was fashioned on the same lines as the light war-galley, but the influence of the round-ship is seen in its wider, deeper proportions, its higher prow, wide stern, and the great increase of sail which it carried. This was emphasised about the middle of the fifteenth century, when the merchant-galley adopted an arrangement
