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Published January 31, This article is more than 2 years old. Sign me up. Wars 7. Vita Porphyr. The run from Byzantium or Thessalonica to Rhodes involves coasting along the shores of islands or the mainland, a process more time-consuming than sailing directly over open water. Vessels could not reach their maximum speed until they met the waters south of Rhodes. When we combine all the above evidence we find that under favorable wind conditions, ancient vessels averaged between 4 and 6 knots over open water, and 3 to 4 knots while working through islands or along coasts.
Voyages Made With Unfavorable Winds The difference in speed when traveling before and against the wind can most graphically be illustrated by several of the voyages of Mark the Deacon. We saw above that sailing with a following wind he made from Byzantium to Rhodes in 5 days and from Byzantium to Gaza in The return trip in both cases took just twice as long.
The prevailing wind in these waters in NW. A vessel making the voyage would theoretically travel on a port tack the whole distance. If the wind, however, backed merely a point or so as is extremely common, it would cease being unfavorable. The second, the voyage from Ascalon to Thessalonica, is patently extraordinarily fast since it took but one day longer than the trip the other way see above which was favored by the wind from start to finish.
The very low average of the last voyage was caused by a heavy storm encountered en route. This information is given in Table 1. It must be remembered that the figures refer to direct voyages over more or less open water. Regular figures are from the voyages listed in the text above. And here we come to a problem that has never been touched: how fast could a fleet sail? Dion Wars 3. We must not include voyages where it is likely that oars played a part.
We may use those in which supply ships participated, for a fleet's speed is determined by its slowest members and the swift triremes would have no occasion to run out their oars when they had to dawdle alongside slow-sailing transports. We may also use voyages that lasted several days or more. On such occasions, oars were rarely used, if at all, since rowing was a short-lived power, to be held in reserve for battle or emergencies.
The first three voyages listed in Table 2 are considerably faster than all the others. This can be easily accounted for. The first involved triremes alone, the third swift lembi alone, and the second was made under a wind that was remarkable for its steadiness and freshness. Before a favorable wind, a fleet could log between two and three knots.
Aristides took, he says, 14 days to go from Corinth to Miletus. Then he adds that he is following Masson in this conclusion. There is a double error here. Aristides' voyage was 14 days from Patras, not Corinth, to Miletus; Corinth is nowhere mentioned. Moreover, Masson in Dindorf's edition of Aristides, Vol. Riepl, Das Nachrichtenwesen des Altertums Leipzig introduces the last possible variation by reporting that Aristides went from Rome to Miletus in 14 days.
The passage says nothing of the sort. Seven days out from the Cyclades a killing took place and some unspecified time later the vessel arrived at Ithaca. Riepl, op. This passage too proves nothing of the sort. Nicander went to Aetolia, spent an undisclosed time there delivering his message, then proceeded to Phalerum. The whole journey, including his stay at Aetolia, took 12 days.
For other instances see below notes 7 , 17 , 20 , 32 , 38 , 47 , Riepl op. Kroll "Schiffahrt," R. Mohler, "Sails and Oars in the Aeneid," TAPA 79 56, note 29, who, on far too little evidence, concludes that ancient ships sailed as fast with the wind slightly ahead as with a fair wind.
When Warmington The Commerce Between the Roman Empire and India [Cambridge ] 51 tells us that the merchant who wanted to go from Alexandria to Rome could wait in Alexandria "until the direct sailing of cornships began in May" instead of taking the Alexandria-coast of Syria-Asia Minor route, he is talking nonsense. Casson 49, note 4, where it is pointed out that Nelson in met the identical winds encountered in a voyage described by Lucian. Mohler op.
In addition, I have used measurements based on the U. Navy Hydrographic Office charts of the Mediterranean. Pliny adds that this voyage as well as the Puteoli-Alexandria run listed below was done " mollissimo flatu. Cato Maior Marius 8. The higher figure presumes that the voyage was made in constant sight of land.
For the figure of which I have adopted see Philip op. They spent some time there, then embarked again and made Alexandria in 7 days. Since the point at which they landed is not precisely designated, my figure of is merely an estimate.
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