Greek trireme, ancient warship with sails and oars.

It is a model of a trireme ship although it has only one row of oarsmen, normally the oars were only used in war because of the physical wear and tear and in war the sails were not used, not always all the oars were used, for example at the entrance of a port, because with fewer oarsmen the situation could be managed, because the physical wear of the oars is quite large and it is not possible to maintain a high speed for a long time and that was only done in a war.

The shields are usually put in war on the sides to protect the crew from javelins and arrows and stones thrown with slingshots.

They say a difficult ship to maneuver, although history says that they had more than three hundred of these ships, as it had more draft had to dredge the port so that it could be moored in the harbor to shelter from storms.

I will try to put on the ship other configurations, they say they had to put all oarsmen to maneuver him in the port, I do not know if he was dragged by other boats or maneuvered alone. Well be that as it may, they rarely used the oars at sea, unless for calm sea chicha, in open sea was handled with sails and war were used oars and sails were not used and short distances for the physical wear that is rowing, I myself can attest that rowing physically is a wear, with such long oars, I guess compensated in weight to facilitate the lever, rowing is an art and more with three rows of rowers.

I suppose that the rudders were by torsion that was used a lot at the time and you know the sailing ships are handled by both the rudder and the sail. Well in war and to leave port only the oars because it is quite a problem for a ship with so much draft to be deflected by the wind and collide with the shallows, being practical.