The Valmy, first rate ship of the line of the French Navy, is today’s subject.
Read more about the the ship here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/French-Warships-Age-Sail-1786-1862/dp/1591146291
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🤔MN Valmy: A wooden one-off which limned the end of the era of ligneous ships and ferrous men.
Great content thank you đź‘Ť
There's a VERY fine 1:40 model of this ship, look it up! It's made of wood, ebony, ivory and silver. It's in the Paris National Maritime Museum. Beautifully made, completely detailed.
34th, 8 April 2023
Those slab sides when have been fun to crew, but all those heavy guns didn't help at all, that's one of the reasons there are progressively smaller guns on the higher gun decks.
I don’t know if I missed it but what were the dimensions? The tonnage was mentioned but how big was she?
only exessive tumblehume was abandoned
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Drach, the extra layer of wood mentioned at 4:10 wouldn’t have been below the waterline, it would have been at the waterline. It’s a old technique called girdling, and it works by increasing the ship’s waterplane area (or more specifically the second moment of area of the waterplane) which raises the metacentric height.
How close did Valmy come to being the very last first rate SOTL still in military service? Since she was a training ship until 1890, I am guessing some of the older captains in WWI actually trained on her? Must have been a wild career to go from a SOTL to submarine hunting.
Did you hear that the Norwegian Navy is putting bar codes on their ships? Its so when they pull into port they can Scandinavian.
"I have a BRILLIANT idea! We'll eliminate the tumblehome and have more space for guns!" Years later, an attempt is made to make the "brilliant idea" less of a problem, while the previous generation of ships is still being built. If this sounds like a problem for simpler times, consider…
The US Air Force is retiring and replacing the F-22 Raptor with an updated version of an early-70's fighter design, the F-15EX Eagle. All hail the Eagle! (Never liked the Raptor)
Got to say she's quite the looker at least.
How cool that an actual photo exists of this ship in her original guise. But, yeah — if the French do have a reputation for making "hotels that go to war", this also fits the bill!
Sounds expensive for the results
How much of the old wooden ships was actually salvageable and reusable for new maritime construction? Or was most of the wood repurposed for use on land?
Parlez vous cannon si vouis plais?
Wonderful there is a picture of this from another time , can you do a vid on prison hulks store ships if poss , I know some of the prison ships were still in use In the 1990 I see if I can get a name or two ,
0:34: shouldn't that be late 18th Century?
Great video as always. Just a little note: the French call this ship 'Le Valmy' and not MN Valmy. 'Le Formidable', 'Le Jean Bart', 'La Jeanne d'Arc' and so on.
Thank goodness none of those wooden behemoths rearmed with shell guns ever had to fight anything similar to Trafalgar. It'd be naval equivalent of the Napoleonic era line tactics executed with Minie rifles.
Astounding that the French named a ship after the great state of Minnesota. Much to ponder.
Was this a precursor to the notorious French habit of a fleet of samples in the late 19th and early 20th century
Q: Which standard of measurement do the French navy use in this period, wouldn’t it be Metric rather than Imperial?
Makes me rather upset that so many of these beautiful ships could have been saved but were broken up.
Thanks for the great video. Odd looking ship, the vertical sides make her look like a building, esp. viewed from the stern.
Question for you sir, would you be interested in reviewing America's naval invasion of Japan? You could make several videos on that.
Not a beautiful ship, but a pugnacious-looking and long-serving one.
Thanks, Drach.