The page of diagrams showing how to construct a model Roman warship has been on this site for many months. Now at last I add an English version of the instructions, which were originally in Latin.

I have also broken up the page into smaller sections, with a few diagrams on each.

Using these diagrams carefully, a clever boy or girl can make a model Roman warship (navis longa) without too much difficulty.

Our advice is to make your model twice the size of our diagrams, i.e. to the scale of the cross-sections i-iii.

Notes

• I. Bow and beak (corvus)
• II. Part B of the side and above views - cross-section.
• III. Middle of the ship - cross-section
• IV. Another view of the same
• V. Stern
• VI. Sketch showing positions of soldiers, rowers, captain, bosun.
• VII. Mast with rigging
• VIII. Parts of the stern.
• IX. Steering oar.

Diagrams: Elevation and plan | cross-sections | details i-5 | details vi-ix | sketch of the finished model