Quintireme

Quintireme is an English term for the polyreme rated as a five, the warship the Greeks called pentere and the Romans quinquereme, the standard heavy galley of the Hellenistic and Punic War navies. The rating denotes five files of rowers worked across two or three banks, not five superimposed levels; Polybius describes Roman fleets of these ships in the First Punic War (264 to 241 BC), including the corvus boarding bridge at Mylae in 260 BC. The form quintireme and quinquereme name the same class.