The bronze ram gave way to a black timber hull that cut the water in spurts with each dip of the oars.

He had a good ship, from the bronze ram that cut the waves just below her waterline to the heavy linen sails.

On the front of the trireme was a large bronze ram.

Its 59-inch-wide oval rim is decorated with two nearly lifesize, gilded bronze ram's heads.

The gilt bronze ram's heads were mounted later, about 1780.

Especially, they hope to find the bronze rams from trireme bows, which are considered more likely than wood to have survived ages of neglect.

See the bronze ram just ahead of the prow?

Within moments, the green bronze ram aimed for the same point as before.

A few dozen men stroked to keep its bronze ram pointing into the slow current.

A bronze ram was fitted to these ships as well.