A List of the types of fish and fish common names. This is a list of the types of fish and their common names. While some common fish names refer to a single species or family, others have been used for a variety of different types. A. African glass catfish. African lungfish. aholehole.
In a race between the trireme and the longship on a fine calm day, in which either ship could use any means to achieve its top speed. Then the trireme would win. The trireme could go in excess of 10 nots, where as the longship averaged a speed of 8 nots with an average breeze.
Sea battles were very common before the 5th century. The trireme was used to ram into enemy ship and render it unstable without losing its own stability. The soldiers would then board the enemy ship and fight like soldiers do on land. The Greeks had the strongest and the most skillful fleet of ships in their era.