Denying Thermopylae - taken from the Newsfeed section

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Philip Haithornwight wrote in the "Napoleonic Sourcebook" that unless their armory was blown up wooden vessels did not sink.

Just for the record - they did! In extremely large numbers all over the world.

The Uluburun wreck, Vasa, Mary Rose and Batavia spring immedately to mind and there are countless other examples. However, whether we would expect to find wrecks of Greek triremes conveniently littered on the sea bed off Thermoplylae or Salamis is another matter entirely.