"The End of Hellenistic Navies" Topic

"Naval power played a lesser role in the Second Punic War than in the First. Despite having a fleet large enough to match the Romans' (who had let their fleet decline after 241), the Carthaginians showed no inclination to challenge the Romans at sea, even in 202 when the consul Scipio invaded Africa with a fleet of 400 transports escorted by only 40 warships while a Carthaginian fleet of 130 sat idly by. Thus, for most of the war, the Romans were able to move armies and supplies freely about the western Mediterranean, especially into Iberia, while Hannibal's army in Italy was mostly cut off from reinforcement from Africa or Spain.
After the war, naval forces continued to play a role in further Roman expansion in the west, into Spain and Gaul, and eastward, though Rome initially showed no inclination to challenge the Hellenistic naval powers directly. The social changes in Italy attendant on the Second Punic War, however, which rendered the peninsula and especially the capital city itself increasingly reliant on grain imports from Sicily, Africa, and Egypt, ensured that Roman interest in naval power would flare up at least sporadically. Roman naval advances were assisted by the fragmentation of states and navies in the eastern Mediterranean after 200. This meant that Rome could find ready allies, including at times Rhodes and Pergamum, which had done serious damage to the Macedonian fleet at Chios in 201. Roman and allied fleets played important roles in Roman wars against Macedon and Seleucid Syria, allowing them to seize the strategic initiative and stretch their enemies' defenses. Having eliminated any real naval opposition by 170, land conquests followed. By 136, with the final destruction of Carthage, Roman fleets had assisted in adding substantially to the empire around the Mediterranean…"
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But there were later battles, like Actium. And the Vandals had a war fleet – galleys? – when they sacked Rome.