Yeah the idea that Rome built 120 ships in 60 days, repeated uncritically in almost every history I've read, is, as the president would say, malarkey.

Graving docks were where? You built two classes of ship from one wreck? Where did you get the the raw materials that fast?

Who were the skilled tradesmen who had never built a warship before but just knew how to reverse engineer a wreck and build it from scratch? It's an absurd claim that anyone familiar with shipbuilding would tell you was idiotic.

Not even a prefabbed fleet could be assembled in 60 days.

How many shipyards would it take to build 120 ships in 60 days? I'm not even convinced a single trireme could be built in 60 days. Athens at the height of the Peloponnesian War built 20 per year. These are 40-60-ton ships.

One of these days, if I ever take a sabbatical or something, I'd like to fully explore this bulls*** claim just to drive a stake through its heart.

That and researching Roman supply chain management just sounds fun to me

Yes, we built a fleet in 60 days and invented an entirely new style of fighting at sea that defeated much more experienced mariners on the fly. Because Rome