In a battle, the triremes tried to get close to the enemy ships and if possible crash into them. A trireme was steered by long steering oars at the stern or back of the ship. The captain ordered the ship to steer straight at an enemy ship. Fixed to the front of the trireme was a sharp metal-covered point or ram. When the trireme struck the side of an enemy ship, the ram smashed a hole in the wooden planks.
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Internet Explorer ships with Microsoftâs Bing as its default search engine. If you want to change to Google in the Windows 8.1 desktop version of IE, itâs remarkably difficult. 1Start the desktop version of IE. Again, it doesnât look like you can do this from the tiled version of IE.