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needs to be redirect to Galley#Biremes and Triremes or dab page. Doug Weller (talk) 10:48, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article states that the trireme would not have been significantly faster than the bireme due to added weight but produced other tactical advantages, but provides no examples afterward of what these tactical advantages would have been. Jantill (talk) 13:39, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The statement that the Greek invented the bireme even before 600 BCE seems at odds with the picture of a fully functional Assyrian bireme dated 700 BCE. So that can only mean biremes are pre 700 and leaves the question where and when are the first biremes build wide open. Perhaps somebody has knowledge of the older use by Assyrian (perhaps Phoenicians, who were Assyrian vassals at that time)? There is always a tendency to give credits to the Greek, but they copied the oversea trading routes/colonies from the Phoenicians and maybe also their ships? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Codiv (talk • contribs) 22:26, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]