- The Navis Lusoria was a Roman war Galley with around 30 oars and a foremast.
- It was mostly used by river Fleets patrolling the Rhine and Danube rivers.
Mainz Ancient Ship Museum
- The Museum fur Antike Schiffahrt is the Museum of Ancient Shipping located at Neutorstrasse 2b, Mainz.
- A complete vessel was found during excavation of the Rhine river bank at Mainz, Germany.
- The Museum has built reconstructions of a Roman Naval Galley, a Navis (Lusoria), and a cargo galley ship found buried in the mud beside the River Rhine.
- Mainz Museum of Ancient Shipping
Sources
- Ammianus Marcellinus (Roman Antiquities, Book XVIII, chap 2, line 12).
- He wrote that 40 Lusoriae was the size of the fleet based at Mainz, in Germania Superior under the Emperor Julian (361-363 CE).
Museum of Ancient Seafaring, Mainz