Minoan ship replica launched

Sprinkled with holy water and to a fanfare of trumpets from a white-helmeted naval brass band, a newly built, 17-metre-long Minoan-style open rowing vessel slid sweetly down the slipway in Hania's old Venetian harbour at noon on December 1. President Costis Stephanopoulos had cut the blue-and-white ribbon tying her up, broken a bottle of champagne and announced her name, Minoa.

Read the rest in Athens News. An older article announcing the project may be found here, at the website of the Trireme Trust -- a useful clearinghouse of information on ancient rowed vessels and their reconstruction. And for further reading, there's The Athenian Trireme : The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship.

Posted by David on December 14, 2003 5:19 PM