A look at the most pinnacle of Nelson’s career, covering the Trafalgar campaign from the beginning through to the moments before battle.
Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/utQjIWF2Dhc
Part 2 here: https://youtu.be/0c6gkFmEhpU
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Huzzah! For part 3! Huzzah!
so much anxiety in that interview kinda painful to watch
La poupe
I'd be afraid the ramrod would end up in the briny in amongst all the excitement.
I wonder whether a trained gun crew acted more quickly and were watching each other with the tool for the next step ready to hand. The example which comes to mind is an oilfield drilling crew tripping pipe…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-quDGwXt048
That's any oilfield crew, though it may now be more mechanised.
Terrific vid Drach and thank you so much for the chat with Matt of the Trafalgar gun crew. Its the first time Ive heard anything about real world gunnery tactics and considerations of that time from someone who clearly knows his stuff . An absolute eye opener and documentary gold
From now on, I propose exaggerated skittishness in an admiral be termed "Villenerve".
Am I the only one asking myself how many of the various rods were lost overboard during gunnery?
Drach, I thoroughly enjoyed this vid. The Trafalgar Gun Company segment brought back fond memories of crewing a 3# field piece.
Finally!
Why is it called a poop deck? It is derived from an old Latin word that we now know a pa-pet. The elevated position that is good for public speaking. It got muddled along the way.
Try let loved this colab with the fine fellow 2 thumbs up
The prophesied day has come, the great speaker of Nelson’s saga has returned.
With all due respect
The problem with boasting of having the largest private weapon collection is that Texans exist.. I legit off hand know of two Texans that have cannons in their collection, they aren’t rich or historians or anything.. just Texan
Guarantee you there’s a random guy in Texas with more cannons
"A look at the most pinnacle of Nelson's career"
18:45 I see that Rear Admiral Rozhestvensky was indeed not the first!
Now we know where Admiral Rozhestvensky learned about tossing his binoculars overboard when upset! At least he didn't have a wig to throw towards the Kamchatka…
Many years ago I enjoyed going to and participating in living history events that took place in the northeast part of the united states. The time period that those events depicted was 1730 to 1840 I primarily did the revolutionary war era. At those events I met and became friendly with a couple guys that owned two different muzzle loading black powder field guns. One was a 4lb cannon and the other was a 2lb short barrel howitzer. I was fortunate enough on two different occasions to help load and fire both guns. It was a fun and educational experience.
Wig and telescope, doing one better than Rozhestvensky…
Regarding the comment about the gun crew's entire focus being on gun drill, a more modern example of this would be the Boy (1st Class) Jack Cornwell at Jutland though mortally wounded his default reaction was to pick himself up and return to his position to continue serving his gun.
French Navy:
blockaded
Napolean:
Have you tried NOT doing that?
How does it feel to become one of the most renowned digital historians?
A drop of Nelson's blood
wouldn't do us any harm
Episode is full of cannons and cannonfire. Glimpses of Nelson seem relatively few, brief and widely spaced.
Enjoyable and informative as usual
I wonder if you would be interested in a game called Return of the Obra Dinn. You play as an insurance adjustor visiting the Obra Dinn, a ship that arrived in port with all hands missing or dead and your job is to figure out the fates of each of the 60 passengers and crew. It's a very cool puzzle game, very unique.
That's pretty awesome! Great video
Finally !!!
Are those both of the QE class behind the Vicotry when you were on the main deck of Victory?
Wind noise on a sailing ship??!?!??!!!? Outrageous!!
Great video 👍👍🇺🇲🤝🇬🇧
A pleasure to watch, even for a landlubber like me.
One question on my mind; how did the orders go efficiently from the top officers to the gunners ? – That could be quite a distance.
Would there be runners, or a long sequence of (very loud) relay shouting men ?
Napoleon must have been running out of binoculars to throw
21 Oct: Happy Trafalgar Day to one & all! (are we even allowed to celebrate this anymore)? 🤦♂
another informative video, can I ask you to do another ship from fiction, like you did for Thunderchild, I'm reading Treasure Island, and wonder what type of ship the Hispaniola was and why a ship based in Bristol would have such a name?
I din't plan to stay up until 2:30 am to watch this. It just happened. 🙂
Also, the Mary Rose 2 ships away? I do like Neslonian era, but the Mary Rose era is closer to my heart.
Drinking a Lambs Navy 1:4 with water, watching part 3 of the Nelson series, and thoroughly enjoying both.
Total spoiler at 45:18 turns out Nelson Dies!
1:35:10 Hornblower was given a percussion cap pistol and said that he just put the muzzle in the man's stomach and pulled the trigger. Didn't need accuracy at range. Nothing fancy.
I impatiently await the battle Drach. Get on it!
EXCELLENT – THANK YOU SO MUCH ! ! !
🙂😎👍
the last plate of the video made me laugh… five min. video (more or less) at 101:07 mins. not the usual 4 to 6 min.