Quinqueremes, vessels with five banks of oars, however arranged (see TRIREME), may be regarded as the first-rates of the ancient navies.
Quinqueremes
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 536
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Quinqueremes, vessels with five banks of oars, however arranged (see TRIREME), may be regarded as the first-rates of the ancient navies.