Hellenistic-era warships#Quadrireme

The quadrireme, also called Tetrere or four rowers, rowing was a warship of antiquity, in which four rowers formed a unity. You should have been developed by the Carthaginians in the 4th century BC.

On how many levels of belt itself distributed the rowers, is controversial in research. There is evidence that most Quadriremen had two straps with two rowers. But it seems to have been also isolated four-row vessels, such as pictorial representations show. Pliny the Elder examined the eruption of Vesuvius on board a quadrireme, where he eventually died.