The late Roman Navy: A shadow of its former self. Or was it?

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The late Roman Navy: Weak, degenerate, only a shadow of its former self. The once mighty fleet of the Romans that had dominated the Mediterranean, that had once defeat even mighty Carthage, hundreds of years later: In decline. In disuse. Slowly falling apart, by 400 AD incapable of defending the Mare Nostrum, the Mediterranean. Or was it? As so often with late roman issues of any kind, the late romans are often again portrayed as weak and degenerate descendants of mightier ancestors. We saw this same narrative with the late roman land armies, where I hope that I could show in several videos, that the late roman army was in fact until the very end a formidable fighting force. And of course, the late Roman Navy shares the same fate as the late Roman land armies, in that historians often brush over it, often in just a few sentences, and the verdict seems all to clear: Namely that the late roman navy was only a shadow of its former self. But is this true?