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A ram on the bow of Olympias, a modern reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme
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Carthaginian naval ram from the Battle of the Aegates (First Punic War, 241 BC) discovered in 2010 at a depth of 80 meters. Damage attributed to collision(s) with Roman ships (ram against ram) can be seen in front view. It carries a 35-character Punic inscription, offered as a
supplication to the god Baal
A naval ram is a weapon fitted to varied types of ships, dating back to antiquity. The weapon comprised an underwater prolongation of the bow of the ship to form an armoured beak, usually between 2 and 4 meters (6–12 ft) in length. This would be driven into the hull of an enemy ship to puncture, sink or disable it.
A navalram is a weapon fitted to varied types of ships, dating back to antiquity. The weapon comprised an underwater prolongation of the bow of the ship...
warship CSS Virginia rammed the Union frigate Cumberland, sinking her almost immediately. Another significant use of the navalram occurred during the...
siege engines Navalram – A battering ram-like device fitted to naval vessels, used to attack, disable and/or sink enemy ships Ramming – various military...
they were finished and that naval tactics were in a state of flux. Many ironclads were built to make use of the navalram, the torpedo, or sometimes both...
Look up RAM, Ram, or ram in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ram, ram, or RAM may refer to: A male sheep Ram cichlid, a freshwater tropical fish Ram (given...
the navalram was a weapon that dominated Mediterranean naval warfare for nearly five hundred years. The use and devastating force of the ram is evidenced...
warships seemingly impervious to cast cannon. The inadequacy of naval artillery caused the navalram to reappear as a means of sinking armored warships. The rapidity...
Tonnini; Entrance stairway; Winged Victory on navalram by Edoardo Rubino; Winged Victory on navalram by Edoardo De Albertis; Tomb of the Italian Unknown...
demolish a harbor defense boom via ramming. While never popular with the naval services that created them, the torpedo ram can be said to have caught public...
by ramming, in subsequent decade every navy in the world largely focused on ramming as the main tactic. The last known use of ramming in a naval battle...
prominent if the ancient authorities ascribed to it the invention of the navalram. Pisa took advantage of being the only port along the western coast between...
Rajasthani saints hail from all castes; Maharshi NavalRam and Umaid Lakshman Maharaj were Bhangis, Karta Ram Maharaj was a Shudra, Sundardasa was a Vaish...
Lightship 106 Gunboat USS Machias, Spanish–American War and World War I Navalram USS Katahdin Monitor USS Nevada (BM-8) Denver class protected cruiser...
The Battle of the Aegates was a naval battle fought on 10 March 241 BC between the fleets of Carthage and Rome during the First Punic War. It took place...
pilgrims during the High and Late Middle Ages. For naval combat, galleys were equipped with various weapons: rams and occasionally catapults until late antiquity...
Oklahoma), New Mexico Territory, and Washington Territory), as well as naval engagements. Virginia in particular was the site of many major and decisive...
A ram air turbine (RAT) is a small wind turbine that is connected to a hydraulic pump, or electrical generator, installed in an aircraft and used as a...
a ship's bow Bulbous bow – Protruding bulb at the front of a ship Navalram – Naval melee weapon Five (TV channel) television program Megastructures,...
invincible. It was not, in the words of naval historian John Pryor, a "ship-killer" comparable to the navalram, which, by then, had fallen out of use...
The Battle of Cape Ecnomus or Eknomos (Ancient Greek: Ἔκνομος) was a naval battle, fought off southern Sicily, in 256 BC, between the fleets of Carthage...
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