Man your production value is strong, really strong. Don't let the seeming lack of traction now get you down, when people do find this channel you will have to blow up.
100% My advice is share this content with your friends and family. 10 shares should do it. If we all pitch in, this man’s content will continue and only get better. It’s basically free for us so imo kind of a must do.
Your content is so varied, fascinating and so well presented. I've been into video essays for over a decade and your channel was instantly one of my favorites when I discovered it earlier this year.
Swede here. Great video! I visited the Vasa museum in Stockholm a few years ago and it was lovely. Unfortunately it’s kind of a “ship of Theseus” situation because they have to switch out the planks semi regularly to prevent decay. Your pronunciations were fine, not perfect, but that’s what to be expected from a non-native speaker. Overall you did great! Thanks for covering Vasa.
If you are ever in Stockholm the Vasa museum is THE place to visit. Very cool seeing this huge ship and hearing what life was like for a ship crew at this time .
How many Europeans do visit Stockholm? And how many Yanks? I fear for the worst. And still, Stockholm is great, it must be, it is Scandinavian. Fools, go there! Yes, you!
The Vasa did inadvertently become one of the best quality mostly intact examples of a ship of the line at the time because of the water conditions in the harbor in which she foundered immediately
I was watching a video series from Drachinifel visiting the Vasa museum. Another mindblowing age of sail fact is that Sir Francis Drake raided a harbor the Spanish were preparing their Armada in and caused the modern equivalent of $2.4 trillion dollars in a single afternoon. And the Spanish Armada sailed the next year still fielding the largest sea-going navy at the time
Technically the ship of the line hadn’t been invented yet because line battle tactics didn’t exist yet. Ship classification is dizzyingly complicated, with terms changing meaning based on time and place so I have no idea what type the Vasa would be considered. This was the same period in which the galley made a comeback because full-rigged ships of the time were hilariously bad at utilizing gun armaments.
I visited the Vasa museum last year while on a 2 day stopover cruise she is an amazing sight ! along with all her well preserved artifacts.anyone visiting Stockholm should add the Vasa museum to there list of places to see.
I had heard stories that the reason the Vasa had sunk was because it was retrofitted from a hull designed for a smaller warship to cut costs, but this make much more sense.
I feel honored to have found this channel only a couple of months ago; Horses, you're doing incredible work and you're one of the main reasons I check RUclips for new videos. Excellent quality , excellent watch from beginning to end, every time. Your Donald Crowhurst video was so fascinating it inspired me to buy an entire book about the guy, and I'm not even interested in those kinds of books.
Horses I love your videos. Your pacing and tone match the visuals at a very nice tempo. I really enjoy these stories my man. The not ott approach is great and rather rare. Keep it up please man!
Cool video! As a Swede who grew up in a Stockholm suburb, I visited the Vasa museum with school several times over the years, and it really is something special!
@@yancowlesbro it’s not that. I see stupid ass titles with goofy names get views with a 1/16th of the production value. This guy will blow up in due time
I love you videos! I play them alot when im doing long drives when i start my work sets. Its like having a buddy reading to me in the car. Keep it uo man !
It's worth noting the the preservation of the ship wasn't perfect. It was rushed and thus the wood has begun to decay. Ironically, it was safer under water. When my mother was young, the ship's condition was good enough to allow people to walk onto it. But as time goes, the wood decays. They keep having to replace parts and the few times I've had the opportunity to be there and see it in person, the deck has been off limits due to its poor condition.
Thats the sad part about conversatorship. Most of the times pieces are either stored in archives ,often not even catalogued (so with little to no value to science) or the pieces get treated with a rush job so be economically more viable.
I knew this would be about the Vasa before even clicking on the video. It's one of history's most hilarious failures for everyone but Sweden. It's also worth pointing out that Sweden didn't control Denmark. They almost got to conquer us, but failed as our king at the time refused to flee, which gave courage to the citizens of Copenhagen to perform a last stand, which repelled the Swedes and led to uprisings against Sweden across Denmark, ultimately forcing Sweden to abandon the conquest of Denmark.
One thing you didn't mention was that Vasa's upper gun deck had 24 pound guns - the same weight as the guns in her main gun deck. In many ways, Vasa's failure is what led to the standardization of wooden warships having their heaviest guns on the main (bottom) gun deck and progressively lighter guns in the upper decks.
i love your videos, the style, the writing, it's amazing how you make this type of content, i hope your channel grows so more people can see your stuff
yeah we swedes have a tendency of sending our flagships to the bottom of the sea, we got Vasa and then Kronan (the crown) got blown to smitherines by it's own gunpowder, taking our other flagship, svärdet (the sword) with it to keep it company underwater
You forgot to mention the most amazing part. They found a statue of Paavo Nurmi on the ship. Finnish long-distance runner who was banned from the olympics in 1930's due to swedish protest. I wonder how that came to be.. :-)
@@nicholasproductions237 Im not sure if you are familiar with the story but 2 finnish engineering students dove there a day before they were going to lift it. It was just this miniature pronze statue with latin text "Greatest finnish long-distance runner". It was simply done as a gag. They made a press release pretty soon after it revealing the whole thing.
Vasa is in spectacular condition, and the video title is very fitting. To me, Kronan is _the_ thing. Capsizing while turning, then blowing up from self-inflicted damage and sinking in full view of an oppositive naval force, as well as being the flagship at the time of catastrophic failure. Causing disarray in the Swedish battle line, the next ship in line to be the flagship getting sunk (Svärdet), as well as the loss of the admiral. -More days like June 1. Hurrah :) Greetings from, Copenhagen, Denmark.
It must have been pretty weird being a Danish sailor seeing this absolute behemoth of a ship, the largest one in the Baltic sea cresting over the horizon sailing straight towards you. And then it just fucking falls over and explodes. We Swedes had some shit luck when it came to ships back then.
my reading of the records was that the captain complained that the motly crew spoke several different languages, were nearly impossible to get to do anything in a timely fashon. so the order to close the lower gunports likely was never received much less done...
This channel is pretty intriguing. It feels like it's bridging the gap between short explanatory videos and longer commentaries, for better or for worse. I truly prefer your "longer" videos over your shorter ones, even if some of them don't captivate me as much as others (the historical and philosophical topics chosen are good if not excellent but the "lifestyle" videos are creeping me out). This one was particularly good, maybe because of that eery 80's TV aesthetics, but other videos with different artstyles are pretty cool aswell. I can't put the finger on what i like about your channel for now... I guess i'll stick around.
The whole ship is also skewed. One reason for that is the builders were from sweden and holland, which at the time used different length inches so the planks are measured inconsistently.
I think it was all worth it. They didn’t know it but they were constructing one of the best conditioned, historical sail ship in the world on a 300 year… aging plan.
also naval guns were often made from bronze, and bronze was a LIMITED RESOURCE, but many countrys had large pools of recruits for seamen, so guns were more valuable than crew, which is why BOARDING MADE SENSE; AS YOU WOULD SHIFT THE BALANCE OF WAR not by 1 ships worth of artillery but 2 ships woth of artillery if you manage to capture a ship of the enemy, which then meant you could rebuild the battered hull or give the guns/recast them, an put them on a new ship of yours.
The gun ports of Vasa were all painted red on the inside and a carved lion's head decorated with gold leaf was mounted on it. So of course during the maiden voyage all gun ports were open to display all the golden lions on red background.
just wait until this guy hears about the warship kronan, the crown jewel of the Swedish fleet which as a battle commenced blew itself up. Lots of marine failures in Swedens history.
You sound like Tom Segura's separated-at-birth twin, and I'm mesmerized. I mean this in the absolute nicest way possible; it isn't why I subbed! Content is great 👍
I love the childishness of the concept. "Hmm if we make a ship bigger than other ships then we'll always win!!". As if no one would have ever gone that route before if it was that easy.
There are some minor mistakes, leading to a different conclusion. One, canons in naval warfare were already decisive since a century. Looking at the Dutch, French, Spanish and British warships. Second, there were designs of double deck canons and then why not hire a foreign shipbuiler or, like Tsar Peter the Great, send people over to learn? Sweden made the mistake of wanting to do all by its own. For that, the king is solely responsible.
Thank you for making such beautiful videos.. I feel overwhelmed with happiness that your channel actually exists.. please keep up the great work and believe that it’s gonna be one of the biggest channels… Thank you so much 🤍
Its even more embarresing when you know that the brittish had already managed to build a 55 gun three decked ship in 1610. The prince royal i think it was called
@@jonomoth2581not true. Mary Rose was 33 years old when she sank. The cause was similar. She had recently been rebuilt to carry more guns which made her too unstable.
Another little fun fact about the Ship in its rushed production needed alot of workers who not all spoke Swedish. Dou to the poor procces of making of the ship one side was made with measurements of the Metric system the other was made with the imperial system. And yea this was not converted properly which was later found out when blueprints of the ship was found.
"SANK". Sunk is the past participle. They teach this in the first few years of school. Even if you left school at 12, you learned this. "Sank is the past tense (e.g., the ship sank to the bottom of the sea). Sunk is the past participle, so it's used in the perfect tenses (e.g., the ship has sunk to the bottom of the sea) and as an adjective (the sunk ship is at the bottom of the sea)."
I enjoyed this video! However.. you called this the greatest maritime disaster.. ever heard the name.. Wilhelm Gustloff? My only gripe tho, keep up the good work!
Man your production value is strong, really strong. Don't let the seeming lack of traction now get you down, when people do find this channel you will have to blow up.
100%
My advice is share this content with your friends and family. 10 shares should do it. If we all pitch in, this man’s content will continue and only get better. It’s basically free for us so imo kind of a must do.
Fax bro grew like 70k this week
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104k and counting.
Found it like a week ago and that’s all I’ve been doing since
Your content is so varied, fascinating and so well presented. I've been into video essays for over a decade and your channel was instantly one of my favorites when I discovered it earlier this year.
Swede here. Great video! I visited the Vasa museum in Stockholm a few years ago and it was lovely. Unfortunately it’s kind of a “ship of Theseus” situation because they have to switch out the planks semi regularly to prevent decay. Your pronunciations were fine, not perfect, but that’s what to be expected from a non-native speaker. Overall you did great! Thanks for covering Vasa.
Hallå där
is it true that it smells horrible
@@mordecai2169No. You cant really smell it at all, been there 3 times
And now you guys have sunk your country after taking in all those 'refugees' 😅
Svergie lukter forfriskende
This channel needs to blow up immediately, so much effort and caring put into those videos, keep it up
Thanks! I’m glad you like them - more to come! 😁
@@HorsesOnYTHey, you’ve finally got the recognition you’ve deserved! Congrats on 150,000 subscribers man :)
@@nobutternotes13 days on from your comment and he is on 230k subs
What do you mean? He has 1 million followers
All of your videos about Sweden and Swedish history make my Swedish heart so happy. Thank you❤ 15:37
If you are ever in Stockholm the Vasa museum is THE place to visit. Very cool seeing this huge ship and hearing what life was like for a ship crew at this time .
How many Europeans do visit Stockholm? And how many Yanks? I fear for the worst. And still, Stockholm is great, it must be, it is Scandinavian. Fools, go there! Yes, you!
The Vasa did inadvertently become one of the best quality mostly intact examples of a ship of the line at the time because of the water conditions in the harbor in which she foundered immediately
I was watching a video series from Drachinifel visiting the Vasa museum.
Another mindblowing age of sail fact is that Sir Francis Drake raided a harbor the Spanish were preparing their Armada in and caused the modern equivalent of $2.4 trillion dollars in a single afternoon.
And the Spanish Armada sailed the next year still fielding the largest sea-going navy at the time
Oh man I shoulda finished watching!
Technically the ship of the line hadn’t been invented yet because line battle tactics didn’t exist yet. Ship classification is dizzyingly complicated, with terms changing meaning based on time and place so I have no idea what type the Vasa would be considered. This was the same period in which the galley made a comeback because full-rigged ships of the time were hilariously bad at utilizing gun armaments.
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you are one of the very few creators I "like" before the video even begins. Thank you for everything you do!
I've been on a massive binge of your work and all of it is brilliant. Thank you for making these!
Just subbed after watching the Crowhurst episode. This guy deserves to blow up.
I like the 90s early 2000s informational VHS style
I spent a summer in Sweden. Going to this museum was one of the highlights.
I visited the Vasa museum last year while on a 2 day stopover cruise she is an amazing sight ! along with all her well preserved artifacts.anyone visiting Stockholm should add the Vasa museum to there list of places to see.
I had heard stories that the reason the Vasa had sunk was because it was retrofitted from a hull designed for a smaller warship to cut costs, but this make much more sense.
Absolutely love all your videos, love the editing, thé graphics and most of all topics and research. Kudos to you
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Horses I love your videos. Your pacing and tone match the visuals at a very nice tempo. I really enjoy these stories my man. The not ott approach is great and rather rare. Keep it up please man!
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I’ll be listening to everything you put out, from now on
I love this channel. It’s definitely my top ten.
The king asking them to find out who was respnsible for the sinking, wearing a sunken ship costume: "we're all looking for the guy who did this-"
title : "History's Greatest Warship"
the ship : can't even turn.
Cool video! As a Swede who grew up in a Stockholm suburb, I visited the Vasa museum with school several times over the years, and it really is something special!
Its insane how this channel isn't getting way more attention. Amount of effort put into each video is absolutely impressive
I think it's because they used 'sunk' in the title and I believe it should be 'sank'.
@@yancowlesbro it’s not that. I see stupid ass titles with goofy names get views with a 1/16th of the production value. This guy will blow up in due time
its crazy how good ur vids are and you only got like 30 comments man very good vid, been binging your vids off the za and they are really good
I love you videos! I play them alot when im doing long drives when i start my work sets. Its like having a buddy reading to me in the car. Keep it uo man !
Definitely recommend rewatching them when you have the time. Especially the ones with the hand make drawings they are really impressive
The ship in person is fucking legendary.
It's worth noting the the preservation of the ship wasn't perfect. It was rushed and thus the wood has begun to decay. Ironically, it was safer under water. When my mother was young, the ship's condition was good enough to allow people to walk onto it. But as time goes, the wood decays. They keep having to replace parts and the few times I've had the opportunity to be there and see it in person, the deck has been off limits due to its poor condition.
Thats the sad part about conversatorship. Most of the times pieces are either stored in archives ,often not even catalogued (so with little to no value to science) or the pieces get treated with a rush job so be economically more viable.
I knew this would be about the Vasa before even clicking on the video. It's one of history's most hilarious failures for everyone but Sweden. It's also worth pointing out that Sweden didn't control Denmark. They almost got to conquer us, but failed as our king at the time refused to flee, which gave courage to the citizens of Copenhagen to perform a last stand, which repelled the Swedes and led to uprisings against Sweden across Denmark, ultimately forcing Sweden to abandon the conquest of Denmark.
I forget how interesting the vasa actually is! As a kid in Sweden it was just another boring sightseeing place my mom dragged me to lol
Allt sånt blir alltid fräckare med åldern haha.
I love the narration. It alwsys makes me remember that people from the past were very similar to us indeed.
The ocean really loves swallowing things touted as “the greatest ship the world has ever seen”
At least they got a cool museum out of the wreck and can still work towards offsetting the initial cost.
One thing you didn't mention was that Vasa's upper gun deck had 24 pound guns - the same weight as the guns in her main gun deck. In many ways, Vasa's failure is what led to the standardization of wooden warships having their heaviest guns on the main (bottom) gun deck and progressively lighter guns in the upper decks.
i love your videos, the style, the writing, it's amazing how you make this type of content, i hope your channel grows so more people can see your stuff
yeah we swedes have a tendency of sending our flagships to the bottom of the sea, we got Vasa and then Kronan (the crown) got blown to smitherines by it's own gunpowder, taking our other flagship, svärdet (the sword) with it to keep it company underwater
I was sceptical at the beginning. Aaaaaand now I've subscribed. Thanks heaps
You forgot to mention the most amazing part. They found a statue of Paavo Nurmi on the ship. Finnish long-distance runner who was banned from the olympics in 1930's due to swedish protest. I wonder how that came to be.. :-)
Swedes probably threw it in th harbor as protest and it happened to land on the ship
@@nicholasproductions237 Im not sure if you are familiar with the story but 2 finnish engineering students dove there a day before they were going to lift it. It was just this miniature pronze statue with latin text "Greatest finnish long-distance runner". It was simply done as a gag. They made a press release pretty soon after it revealing the whole thing.
@@mattihaapoja8203 that’s pretty funny
@@mattihaapoja8203Finnish Humour 👌
Love this account hope it blows up, been watching ur videos for a while and only just realised I wasn’t subscribed… my bad have done that now :)
Vasa is in spectacular condition, and the video title is very fitting.
To me, Kronan is _the_ thing. Capsizing while turning, then blowing up from self-inflicted damage and sinking in full view of an oppositive naval force, as well as being the flagship at the time of catastrophic failure. Causing disarray in the Swedish battle line, the next ship in line to be the flagship getting sunk (Svärdet), as well as the loss of the admiral. -More days like June 1. Hurrah :)
Greetings from, Copenhagen, Denmark.
It must have been pretty weird being a Danish sailor seeing this absolute behemoth of a ship, the largest one in the Baltic sea cresting over the horizon sailing straight towards you.
And then it just fucking falls over and explodes.
We Swedes had some shit luck when it came to ships back then.
Didn't help you win the Scanian War though.
@@gathenhielm9977But not when it came to killing Danes.
my reading of the records was that the captain complained that the motly crew spoke several different languages, were nearly impossible to get to do anything in a timely fashon. so the order to close the lower gunports likely was never received much less done...
This channel is pretty intriguing. It feels like it's bridging the gap between short explanatory videos and longer commentaries, for better or for worse. I truly prefer your "longer" videos over your shorter ones, even if some of them don't captivate me as much as others (the historical and philosophical topics chosen are good if not excellent but the "lifestyle" videos are creeping me out). This one was particularly good, maybe because of that eery 80's TV aesthetics, but other videos with different artstyles are pretty cool aswell.
I can't put the finger on what i like about your channel for now... I guess i'll stick around.
The whole ship is also skewed. One reason for that is the builders were from sweden and holland, which at the time used different length inches so the planks are measured inconsistently.
Why am I crying over a 400 year old ship.
Because you secretly long for the return of the Swedish empire
I dig yo style horse-man
Ya gotta have a swede with the old Sunday roast .
the sweeds lost an even bigger warship due to performing a turn under battle conditions and capsizing
Looking at the wreck in person while listening to the video is incredible
It was so interesting that despite the bureaucracy that there was no obvious record of where the ship sank.
There were so many drinks even the ship fell over🤣. Great video though. Absolutely loved it.
New subscriber here. Great vids man!
I do love this channels videos he does make great points but he does make good bit of logical leaps and assumptions
Let's make a top heavy barrel shaped ship with a flat bottom, and see what happens. -Sweden
My new favorite channel
Comment for the algorithm gods!
Great content, keep it up man!
I think it was all worth it. They didn’t know it but they were constructing one of the best conditioned, historical sail ship in the world on a 300 year… aging plan.
Can you cover the story of how the HMS hood was sunk? Also very interesting
Wonderful graphics and typography 🙏🏻
"How History's Greatest Warship SANK Immediately"
Shinano: "...i was sunk at sea-trials...!"
Vasa: "...hold my crispbread...!"
Sank. It sank.
also naval guns were often made from bronze, and bronze was a LIMITED RESOURCE, but many countrys had large pools of recruits for seamen, so guns were more valuable than crew, which is why BOARDING MADE SENSE; AS YOU WOULD SHIFT THE BALANCE OF WAR not by 1 ships worth of artillery but 2 ships woth of artillery if you manage to capture a ship of the enemy, which then meant you could rebuild the battered hull or give the guns/recast them, an put them on a new ship of yours.
lovethis vide ohope the algorithm shows me more like this
Well in a way the city was correct, it was "rubble" from a prior construction project
The gun ports of Vasa were all painted red on the inside and a carved lion's head decorated with gold leaf was mounted on it. So of course during the maiden voyage all gun ports were open to display all the golden lions on red background.
This is gonna be a good one.
Vasa might have sunk in 20 minutes, but Sweden still conquered the Baltic in less than a 100 years.
Went to the museum in 2013, interesting stuff.
Could have shown it in the museum now
3:41 shows Sir Francis Drake? view from plymouth
Certainly sank quickly, yes.
fantastic channel my guy
if your channel name wasnt so confusing to the algorithm youd have 100Ksubs months ago
just wait until this guy hears about the warship kronan, the crown jewel of the Swedish fleet which as a battle commenced blew itself up. Lots of marine failures in Swedens history.
You sound like Tom Segura's separated-at-birth twin, and I'm mesmerized. I mean this in the absolute nicest way possible; it isn't why I subbed! Content is great 👍
I love the childishness of the concept. "Hmm if we make a ship bigger than other ships then we'll always win!!". As if no one would have ever gone that route before if it was that easy.
“Sank”.
Did you voice the riddles for ted x?
Did the end of the video get cut off???
How the hell does this only have 5k views?
I sink, it sank, it was sunk.
There are some minor mistakes, leading to a different conclusion. One, canons in naval warfare were already decisive since a century. Looking at the Dutch, French, Spanish and British warships. Second, there were designs of double deck canons and then why not hire a foreign shipbuiler or, like Tsar Peter the Great, send people over to learn? Sweden made the mistake of wanting to do all by its own. For that, the king is solely responsible.
Unless I'm mistaken, the original plan was for a smaller ship, thus the bottom of the ship was designed for a smaller and shorter(less tall) ship
We're still proud of it
good idea EXCEPT money DOESN"T FLOAT LMFAO
Thank you for making such beautiful videos.. I feel overwhelmed with happiness that your channel actually exists..
please keep up the great work and believe that it’s gonna be one of the biggest channels…
Thank you so much 🤍
Its even more embarresing when you know that the brittish had already managed to build a 55 gun three decked ship in 1610. The prince royal i think it was called
100 years prior the British also had a very similar incident to the Vasa with a new flagship The Mary Rose sinking soon after launch
@@jonomoth2581not true. Mary Rose was 33 years old when she sank. The cause was similar. She had recently been rebuilt to carry more guns which made her too unstable.
And she had two gun decks as rebuilt.
@@jeremypnet my apologies, I must have misremembered
Most other famous ships, with few exceptions, are vanished forever. The disaster of the vasa saved it for posterity…
Another little fun fact about the Ship in its rushed production needed alot of workers who not all spoke Swedish. Dou to the poor procces of making of the ship one side was made with measurements of the Metric system the other was made with the imperial system. And yea this was not converted properly which was later found out when blueprints of the ship was found.
The “mighty” hood went down in 5 after a critical hit to its magazines
as a psychotic Texan once said, "sometimes, you just need a little less gun"
"SANK".
Sunk is the past participle. They teach this in the first few years of school. Even if you left school at 12, you learned this.
"Sank is the past tense (e.g., the ship sank to the bottom of the sea). Sunk is the past participle, so it's used in the perfect tenses (e.g., the ship has sunk to the bottom of the sea) and as an adjective (the sunk ship is at the bottom of the sea)."
no one cares
I have been to the Vasa Museum. Amazing!
Imagine a sailing ship being sunk by a gust of wind. Ridiculous.
How did they get all that video footage from the 1600s though?
Im COLOR no less?!
I enjoyed this video! However.. you called this the greatest maritime disaster.. ever heard the name.. Wilhelm Gustloff? My only gripe tho, keep up the good work!
Cool video, o enjoyed learning about this ship. But please, change or lose the transition sound effect between chapters, it's really jarring
Quality of vid is alright, but bizzare history enough to be interesting plus your narration was alright. Hope to read more fascinating history