Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Drepanum (First Punic War).

Fought B.C. 249, during the siege of Lilybæum, between the Roman fleet of 123 galleys under Publius Claudius, and the Carthaginians under Adherbal. Claudius was defeated, losing 93 ships, 8,000 killed and 20,000 prisoners, while the victors did not lose a ship.