Penteconter (ship)

The Pentekontere (Greek πεντεκόντορος "Fifty rower " ) was an ancient Greek ship type, in which 25 oarsmen sat on each side. Pentekonteren were about 30 to 40 feet long and about 4 feet wide. They were a common rowing type of vessel ( nave ) during the Archaic period in Greece. As warships they were not suitable because of poor controllability and were replaced by triremes.

They were BC by Ameinokles invented about 680 ( a Corinthian shipwright ).

Only with these strong rowing boats succeeded the ancient Greeks against the unfavorable flow and the headwind in the Bosphorus to arrive and to penetrate with their ships into the Black Sea. Therefore, the earliest Greek colonies on the Black Sea coast dating all v. only after 680 BC

A boat with 30 rowers is a Triakontere.