American Reacts HMS Victory: Sailing & Fighting a Napoleonic Warship



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25 thoughts on “American Reacts HMS Victory: Sailing & Fighting a Napoleonic Warship”

  1. Big boat, not 100% built identically by fallible people have different variations.
    Big boat, heavy with hydrodynamics in play. The sails sometimes create more force than the tensile strength of the wood, rope and fabric will take. This thing is like a seaborne village. You can try and drag a car with a rubber band all you like, if that car starts reversing I don't like the odds on your rubber band.

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  2. Look up john Fisher he started in the Royal navy at 12 yrs old in the age of sail in the 1850s and ended up as admiral of the fleet with steel warships at the turn of the century and made the Royal the most powerful navy for another 40 yrs

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  3. One of the big advantages of Royal Navy gun crews was the carriage for the gun itself which was designed specifically for ships whereas the french and Spanish used field artillery carriages for fighting land on there ships

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  4. Connor, the british manned the ships with the press gangs. They were not impressing them to join the ship, they were pressing them into the service of the country against their will. You could be a young man walking the streets near the docks or had a few beers and be making your way home to your family. If a ship needed 50 ,60, 70 or more fighting men, you would be forcibly and most likely be beaten up to be brought aboard a ship about to go to war. The next day you could be many miles at sea. You had been pressed into the service of king and country. Your family didn't know where you had gone or why you had dissapeared

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  5. A Naval ship has to be able to operate independently and be self sufficient to a large extent , especially so in earlier times .

    The film Master and Commander gives a pretty good insight into life at sea in those times and the importance of morale and the quality of the Officers and crew . It was important the ship remained serviceable and extra sail put more strain on the masts , rigging and structure and ship handling was a vital part of that .

    Portsmouth was made a City by Richard the Lionheart and part of the Dockyard is now a historic attraction with HMS Victory , Has Warrior and Henry VIII flagship Mary Rose open to visitors , the RN. Museum and other shops and it's worth a visit if you are interested in ships . There is a raised brass plaque on the deck where Nelson fell at Trafalgar .

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  6. England. I have been reading about the days of sale for over half a century and I'm still learning. Sorry but there are vastly better videos on YouTube. They were better sailors because the French stayed in port most of the time and seldom fired their guns. Cots, like Nelson's, were suspended on ropes. They didn't eat 'lunch', the word was unknown at sea. Do your homework.

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  7. i was on Victory 1 month ago, you can walk on the scaffolds currently looking at the conservation work…. the decks on the ship are well low, you have to walk around almost crouched lol….also Victory is still commisioned, its the flagship of the First Sea Lord….USS Constitution is the oldest SEAWORTHY ship

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  8. There was a funny story about a man who went to see The HMS Victory as it is now a museum. We was walking along and tripped over something on the deck. he got up rubbing his head and asked what the hell is that thing on the floor I just tripped over it. The guide said ….Oh that's a plaque it's where Nelson died. The man said I'm not surprised I nearly broke my neck on it myself.šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ˜šŸ˜

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