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[Marcus F.]

Is that a Dromon or whatever they were called?

Dromon was the name of Byzantine galleys, for example those, who defended Constantinople during early medieval times against the Arabs with "Greek Fire" - here I posted a picture of one of these shipse (what looks like two cannons at the ship's bow were actually early "flamethrowers"): <!-- l <a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=23076&start=20#p249238">viewtopic.php?f=13&t=23076&start=20#p249238<!-- l

Now the ship in this video had still pretty much the same design like those galleys from the Battle at Lepanto. They were also used for a long time as a punishment for criminals (just not in Ancient times, that's the common misunderstanding people get from the story of "Ben Hur"). Here you have a list of sea battles, which shows that they were still fightung for quite a long time, especially in the Mediterranean Sea, but also, as Jeroen said, in the North East of Europe.

Here you have a video that shows a model of the Venetian Fleet at the Battle of Lepanto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRMdL9HUeuE