The fact that this was just over 200 years ago, when people were just the same as us in mind and nature is so mind blowing. I have traced my ancestors further back than this time.
"By this time tomorrow I'll have gained a peerage or Westminster Abby." It means that he'll either win the battle and thusly be awarded with a peerage/noble title, or he will have lost the battle and died in the fighting.
The French Admiral's young son was on L'Orient with him when the ship exploded, refusing to leave his father - this inspired the famous poem Casabianca , which most know it from its first lines, "The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled;..."
A peerage is an aristocratic title. E.g. he gets to become a Lord, Baron, Viscount, etc. Westminster Abbey is a huge cathedral-like building in London. It's a tomb for heroes. So if he "gains it", he's died in battle.
Fire at sea, in wooden ship waterproofed by pitch and miles of tarred rope, was the greatest single threat - as this battle proved so dramatically. And while desalination was possible, the small amounts produced was not worth the risk of the massive fires to boil the quantities needed to be practical. Hot meals and the oven were also so tightly limited and controlled.
The HMS Belepheron, which was badly damaged in the Battle of the Nile went on to be anchored off the English coast and was Napoleon's prison ship before he was finally exiled.
"Ship of the line" and "Battleship" are the same thing, having their shared origin in the term "ship of the line of battle". The term "cruiser" also come from this time, with a ship of the line or sometimes frigate going on Cruiser operations like raiding, patrolling etc. When steam engines and armour came in you begin to see the divergence of the "battle" ship and the "cruiser" ship as range and speed were impacted ever more heavily by armour and armament. So a ship of the line is both a battleship and a cruiser for its time, with bigger ones (1st and 2nd rate) more suited for battle and smaller ones (4th rate) more suited for cruiser work. The third rate is all rounder king and by far most common for that reason. The fourth rate was phased out over time as third rate became more common and frigates became larger and more capable.
If you captured a ship you captured everything. Doesn't matter if the ammunition is the wrong size, because it comes along with a ship full of guns of the correct calibre.
Ship of the line (1st&2nd rate) :Battleship. 74 gun ship (3rd&4th rate):Heavy Cruiser. Frigate (5&6 rates): Destroyer. A "very" simple rule of thumb to compare Age of Sail ships with WWII ships. Its a lot more complicated than this. But this will suffice for the layman watching a random video.
@@ayoa1173 As I stated. Its a simple guide for none naval types watching the odd vid with late Age of Sail ships. I chopped out the 74s, as the majority of British ships were 74's at the Nile. If I had kept them in with the Capital ships. It would have given the impression that the RN turned up with almost all Battleships. No need to give a lecture about the the little details. X frigate has all 12 pounders. Y frigate has caronnades and some 18 pounders. Then you have to explain what carranades are. Long cannons v short cannons etc. The big differences between a French rigged and a British rigged ship etc. Its just not needed for the casual viewer. Just as I left out unrated ships . A casual viewer has a sort of idea what a battleship, big cruiser, and destroyer are. Nine out of ten random people probably think USS Constitution and HMS Victory are basically the same ship with different flags.
Desalination is extremely slow and "costly" in energy, especially back then. It's why humans only use it as a last resort additional source of water. Also it was not really a "evenly matched naval battle"... the French had more guns and more ships but had around the same amount crew (their bigger and more ships currently had less crew due to the supply expedition).
The term Battleship in WW1 and WW2 comes from "Line of Battle ship" from the days of sail. In the main navies the majority of ships of the line were 2 deckers with between 64 and 80 guns - most British ships were 2 decker 74's. The largest ships were the 3 deckers with around 100 guns - very costly to build and man with large crews of over 800 men and thus fewer in number compared to the 2 deckers. Both 2 and 3 deckers were used in the line of battle and are synonomus with the term Battleships used in the 20th century. Frigates were the fast and seaworthy single decker ships used for scouting and messaging for the battle fleets and general commerce protection and flying the flag around the world - they would compare to the light cruiser of the 20th century.
Sounding is using a thin rope, knotted every six feet (one fathom). It has a lead weight with a concave space at the bottom. Think of a shallow bell in shape. The concave area has a soft material put into it. which pickes up what is on the seabed. So The ship knows whats below it, and the depth. Ship speed is measured using a ships log. It is a quarter circle with lines to keep it upright in the water. A knotted line (log line) is attached and then towed behind the ship. A sailor counts how many knots slip though his fingers in a given time. If six knots when through, the ship speed is six knots. The knots are spaced at a certain length from each other. This is where we get knots for nautical speed today.
It depends, for the British for the most part its untrue, most good crew were from the Isle of Wight, Southampton or Portsmouth, and so had grown up by the sea, fishing and playing in it as children. Even today almost all native British people from the south can swim, but For French or German crews it was quite different, many were recruited from inland towns and had never even been aboard a ship before they started their training. There is also the issue that even if we can swim well often you are still going to die if you have to jump. Many coast lines have harsh rocky shores that kill anyone being tossed against them, and often you're hundred of miles from any land at all, or the tide will simply sweep you out to sea. If the tide is going out and running fast no matter how good a swimmer you are in many bays its so strong there is very little chance you survive.
At sea, in order to avoid repeatedly hauling in and measuring the wet line by stretching it out with one's arms, it is common practice to tie marks at intervals along the line. These marks are made of leather, calico, serge and other materials, and so shaped and attached that it is possible to "read" them by eye during the day or by feel at night. Traditionally the marks were at every second or third fathom: at 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 17, and 20 fathoms. The "leadsman" called out the depth as he read it off the line. If the depth was at a mark he would call "by the mark" followed by the number, while if it was between two marks, he would call "by the deep" followed by the estimated number; thus "by the mark five", since there is a five-fathom mark, but "by the deep six", since there is no six-fathom mark. Fractions would be called out by preceding the number with the phrases "and a half", "and a quarter", or "a quarter less"; thus 4 3/4 fathoms would be called as "a quarter less five", 3 1/2 as "and a half three", and so on. Where the depth was greater than 20 fathoms the line would commonly be marked with a single knot at 25 fathoms, two knots at 30, and so on.
Your desalination question is a good one. It's a problem of equipment and time. The vapour needs to be angled away and onto something cold and then the fresh liquid drops into a different container. Keeping the "something cold", well, cold, is a problem as is capturing the vapour to divert. It's very possible at the time but you would boil a lot of seawater to get not very much fresh water. And since these ships are super flammable they kept open fire in very specific parts of the ship limiting the process more. With so many to get water for, and the men needing to waste water to pump all that sea water in the first place it's very awkward.
HMS Bellerophon ( known to the sailors as "Billy Ruffian ) was repaired and fought at Trafalgar. In 1815 after his defeat at Waterloo Napoleon surrendered to Frederick Lewis Maitland captain of the Billy Ruffian which was on blockade duty off the coast of France. She was broken up and sold for scrap in 1836. Some of the timber was bought by George Bellamy ex ships surgeon on Bellerphon and used to build a cottage in Plymstock near Plymouth Devon. It still stands.
Admiral bruises so badly hurt even lost his legs but he strapped himself to a chair on deck and stayed in command until the ship blew up. He went down with his ship a true commander. Salute 🫡🫡🫡
When they took soundings (finding how deep the water was), a sailor would "heave the lead", a lead weight with grease on the bottom attached to a line thrown ahead. The sailor would pull in the slack caused by the ship moving until the line was directly below, when the sailor would read the markings to get the depth. The grease was used to pick up sediment from the sea floor. Sometimes two sailors would be employed, taking turns in heaving the lead.
A ship of the line is a ship that is intended to fight in the line of battle. Normally in the Royal Navy, that would be a 1st, 2nd or 3rd Rate ship. A ships Rate, is not about quality, it's about the number of guns. Ships were rated from 1st to 6th, ships with fewer guns than a 6th were unrated. The number of guns for each rate changed over time (100+ for a 1st rate at the time, I think). Nelson saying "A peerage or Westminster Abby", was him saying that he would win a grand victory and gain a noble title, or die a heroes death and be buried in Westminster Abby.
Ships-of-the-Line were warships deemed large enough and strongly constructed enough, to sail in the line of battle, in broadsides. Such tactics had developed long, long before the Battle of the Nile. It is fair to point out that Britain often had battle fleets in line-of-battle, which were dominated by 3rd rate ships-of-the-line. In spite of how in modern parlance, saying, '3rd rate' may seem demeaning, this was by no means and insult in the late 18th/early 19th century, when regarding the Royal Navy. It's 3rd rates were the backbone of the Royal Navy. While there were roughly 9 or 10 British 1st rates (>100 gun giants) built across the majority of the entire 18th century, there were >200 3rd rates at any given point in the time of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. There were even more 4th rates and 5th rates (including 5th rate frigates) Some classes were built by the several dozen. There were also much lighter 6th rates ships-of-the-line, built primarily for speed. A lot of these could find themselves being used in active front-line service around the world, though when it came to big gun battles, the smaller ships were not really meant to be as heavily involved. A 6th rate would normally be carrying out duties more suited to it's size and classification. There were also brigs, sloops-of-war and gunboats, amongst many other smaller classes of vessels. When you got to around 4th rate size and onward you'd start to see the more heavily-armed ships which are more cut out for the big gun battles. If you're in a 3rd rate with anywhere between 64 to 74 (sometimes 80; though that used to be a 2nd rate firepower band, in the earlier 17th century; though some 2nd rates by Nelson's day could have up to 98 guns; and had already been that way since the early 18th century), then you'd have about half of those guns pointing port or starboard. That's a pretty healthy level of firepower to stand up for oneself and slog it out in the mix with the big bruisers so to speak. Then again, there are some notable moments in naval history where conventional things go out of the window. HMS _Terpsichore_ (of 32 guns; and 5th rate frigate status, of the _Amazon_-class) was plucky enough to pick a fight with the largest warship on the planet at the time, in 1797; a little while after the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797, HMS _Terpsichore_ (which had not been at the battle) encountered Santisima Trinidad (shorthand form of her name) limping back to Cadiz. HMS _Terpsichore_ was patrolling the coast for smaller quarry, and to report on enemy movements. Unexpectedly, the 136-140 gun Santisima Trinidad, a great red and black leviathan lurching in from the West, had been sighted by the little British frigate. It would be completely reasonable for HMS _Terpsichore_ to simply avoid the juggernaut Spanish ship like the plague, though she did something else, entirely; she started firing at the Spanish giant, and harassing it for miles. It was a hopeless mismatch of crew size, displacement, firepower and presence, though the British just fired away. 9 Spanish sailors were slain, and the crew was quite shocked at what the British had done. They returned fire, of course (dozens of larger guns, rippling away trying to punish the little British frigate) Indeed, HMS _Terpsichore_ kept a close eye on the direction of movement of this enormous, 4-decker Spanish 1st rate. For comparison a British 3rd rate has 2 decks. The British 5th rate frigate had more than 100 fewer guns of any size, than Santisima Trinidad. Now, realistically, both the British and the French possessed 'better ships' aka more lethal and better-built, better-operated and more usefully deployed, 1st rate ships-of-the-line. Santisima Trinidad was actually quite unfortunate, and had a very dubious career for her sheer size and firepower. She very nearly struck her colours (surrendered) during the Battle of Cape St Vincent, when a pair of British 3rd rates singled her out and began to dismantle her. L'Orient (arguably one of the greatest of the French 1st rates, as seen at the Battle of the Nile) had fewer guns than Santisima Trinidad as well, but it clearly wasn't the decisive factor) Whenever the British _did_ bring their own, very rare and crew hungry 1st rates to bear, these were terrifying powerhouses. However, as I said, the real backbone of the Royal Navy was the reliable 3rd rate. Britain had lots of 3rd rates of a bewildering array of classes (including many, captured from various opponents) and great classes were commissioned and built. Although these would be often thinly spread out, considering their true numbers in total in the overall Royal Navy, there'd be plenty of them in a lot of British fleet groups around the world. They were something of a 'Goldilocks Zone' of requirements; large enough to be very imposing and impressive, fast enough to catch almost everything, and powerful enough to defeat almost everything, when it did catch them. A pair, or a trio, of British 3rd rates, could easily work over French or Spanish 1st rates (and even more so, 2nd rates) The clue is with HMS _Terpsichore_ a mere 5th rate frigate, having the cannonballs (roundshot) to actually have a go at the then largest warship in the world. It says, well, everything you need to know about the mindset, quality, skill and bravery of the Royal Navy of Nelson; the Nelsonian Royal Navy. They were a different breed. The Spanish return fire did damage HMS _Terpsichore_ in the masts and rigging, and fearing being immobilised, the British did break off after some time following the Spanish giant. They lost sight of it as it hastened to Cadiz, and they slowed for repairs. They hadn't lost a single man. Now, sure, the British frigate was in very real danger, though she could have run away from the first sighting, and not been considered dishonoured; it was a hilarious mismatch and it wasn't her place to be picking a fight with that. But it didn't stop them reminding the Spanish why they were the best navy in the world.
“L’Orient” was the biggest ship on the world at the time. The “Santisima Trinidad” had more decks and more guns but L’Orient had a bigger “body” I guess for carrying all that money and gold and supplies. She had more tonnage than any other ship in the world. When she was sank.
He meant death of glory , buried in Westminster Abbey or a Knighthood . The inshore course looked similar to what the first group would have taken to come alongside the French line as long as no-one ran aground and it was decisive as they were almost unopposed . It was a good animation .
32:12 - Always fascinating to see which captured ships the Royal Navy adopted with the original French name intact and which ones they felt they had to rename (sometimes because of tricky pronunciation or an existing British ship with the same name, but often for ideological reasons if it had been named after some enemy hero or Jacobin principle). It seems that of those taken at Aboukir Bay, Peuple Souverain and Franklin were considered objectionable names to have a HMS put in front of them; have to admit I'm a bit surprised about the second one, but obviously the Royal Navy in 1798 wasn't ready to forgive and forget just yet!
The French admiral was an absolute mad man his face and hands messed up both legs blown off by cannon ball but refuses to leave his post and died on deck... Salute !
Only in Navy. Up until mid Napoleonic Era, The Brits were infact behind in "skill" when compared to the French and Prussians. It wasn't until the Wellington Era that skill played a bigger factor than Money in leadership, lessons being learned from the Navy. Titles and medal were being earned rather than exchanged for cash.
@@babalonkie Give it a rest, Britain never got a huge empire at that time from lacking behind in "skill" Britain destroyed France in the Seven years war, as that was the most crushing war for France territory wise in their history and they won that not just from Naval battles, all the while Britain and Prussia were being out outnumbered massively. No country could hope to invade Britain at that time, not while the Royal Navy was top dog.
@@ChrisCrossClash Navy Yes... Britain's Army not so much... it was below par of several other nations (whilst still being ahead of many others). Britain's Win/Loss ratio in land battles was nowhere near as successful as it's Navy. "Britain never got a huge empire at that time from lacking behind in "skill"" No... 9/10 times it got it by Bringing guns to countries that never had them...
@@babalonkieand earlier the Dutch were excellent. Only from 1770s on, with Indian money, did the Navy excel. Also Industrial Revolution. Ship need to fire more quickly and accurately than the opposition.
Ship Of The Line has a very specific meaning. You would have learnt it in the first of this series, that I also saw. I would chastise you, but now it comes to it, I am not 100% sure myself! I think it means a ship with over 100 cannon. I am from Norfolk, England. On the road signs on entering Norfolk, it says, “Norfolk:Nelson’s county”. We are still very proud of our Horatio…
Taking soundings. What you are describing is measuring the speed of the ship. It was done by dropping a rope in the sea and over a set time, the person holding the rope would count the number of knots that went through his hands. Hence speed on the sea being measured in Knots. The knots were tied specifically at a predetermined distance apart… Soundings were designed to see how deep the sea was. I am unaware of how that was done at this time in history. It had to involve rope and a weight, but don’t know the details, sorry.
A ship of the line or "line of battle ship" which later was shortened to battleship formed the line of battle in these times which normally saw the two fleets sailing alongside pounding each other . The smallest classed as such I believe was 64 guns but 74 was far more common .
'Title and Parliament' - there are TWO houses of parliament - the commons and the peerage. This is very roughly the same system as the senate and congress. The Peerage, being awarded by the politicians or (at this time) hereditary, can review bills made by the lower house, and send them back with recommendations for amendment. However the Commons made up of elected MP's has the final say. Nelson's peerage therefore gave him a seat in the upper house.
Yes “ship of THE LINE” remember the cape st Vincent video. In this age it was considered “crucial to maintain the LINE of battle”. Hence why Nelson was so good he used some tactics developed during the American revolutionary wars and Breaking the lines. Hence SHIP OF the LINE. THE main battleships.
Drachinifel is without doubt one of the most comprehensive experts on anything Naval, the man a mad man however doing 6 hrs Q and A's on anything from Nelson to what they served for lunch in the USS Iowa on Christmas day in 1944 or what are the dynamics of water in a swell and a 50,000 ship
Idk why the french didnt use the army to get supplies like food or water instead of sailors but for a weakened french fleet they fought hard they did more damage on the british fleet then the spanish did at cape st vincent and that was when the spanish outnumbered and outgunned the british 2 to 1 but yeah rest in peace thanks to british rescue crews 70 sailors were Rescued from the french flagship out of a crew of 1,078 men
The question of austria is more the opposite. France's treatment of austria left them little choice but to fight. The holy roman empire was a bizarre institution built on balance stemming from old traditions, the french revolution, its export and frances stance of defending revolutionaries abroad, that led to france declaring war on the habsburgs and invading the austrian netherlands, meant peace wasnt an option since the habsburgs empire's existence was under threat. After defeat in italy, austrias position was dire and its safety net in germany was being pulled towards france, france had also treated austria in a humiliating manner which shuck up the established order and left them looking weak next to their rivals. After austerlitz, the austrians saw napoleon setting himself up as charlemagne and since the habsburgs were the heirs to charlemange, that meant that napoelon would destroy them one day as an obstacle so they had to fight back before they ceased to have the strength to. Succesive defeats created worse and worse conditions for austria such that the damage done to their economy and the complete disrespect napoleon treated them with, meant that there was no way austria could live with france. The confusing thing was that napoleon seemed to genuinely believe that his threatening austria in order to marry one of their princesses, after everything, would make a nation that was about to go bankrupt under napoleons peace treaty, be friendly toward him. The relationship between austria and france during the napoleonic wars was that of a bully being fought back against. Had napoleon treated them with respect instead of constant menacing remarks about how he could destroy austria if he wanted to, he might have been able to form peace with them. As is, metternich recognised that napoleon needed to go for austria to be safe before he'd even met him since napoleon had a mentality of doing what he wanted. regardless of how it affected others.
As a peer at that time. Nelson being a baron, would allow him to sit in the House of Lords. The upper house of the British Parliment. The US Senate would be a rough analogue to the House of lords.
The wind was still in the English favor nothing changed in that regard only that the French didn’t think he could sail through there because it’s so shallow and they didn’t have enough sailors as they were all on land sooo being attacked from both sides made the battle even MORE decisive in the British favor
A sounding line or lead line is a length of thin rope with a plummet, generally of lead, at its end. Regardless of the actual composition of the plummet, it is still called a "lead". Leads were swung, or cast, by a leadsman, usually standing in the chains of a ship, up against the shrouds. Measuring the depth of water by lead and line dates back to ancient civilization. It continues in widespread use today in recreational boating and as an alternative to electronic echo sounding devices. Greek and Roman navigators are known to have used sounding leads, some of which have been uncovered by archaeologists. Sounding by lead and line continued throughout the medieval and early modern periods and is still commonly used today. The Bible describes lead and line sounding in Acts, whilst the Bayeux Tapestry documents the use of a sounding lead during William the Conqueror's 1066 landing in England. Lead and line sounding operates alongside sounding poles, and/or echo sounding devices particularly when navigating in shallower waters and on rivers
Britain was the most dominant sea faring nation in the history of the Human Race. at one point they were stronger and had more ships than the next 8 largest navies
Forgot about the battle at Medway, where the entire British navy was blown to smithereens in their own harbour by the Dutch? The capture of the British flagship HMS Royal Charles was a major humilliation for the British, forcing them to stop the then ongoing war against the Dutch immediatly. It took the British approximatly a century to rebuild their navy to the level before the battle at Medway. From that moment on, the British were indeed the most dominating sea faring nation. But unlike you are saying, that was not always the case.
There’s tons of French generals at this time and test Napoleon was one of the biggest and best known but … how could they know this guy would become emperor…and also so what if not him someone else may have … there was so much stuff going on during the French Revolution.. many coups and coup attempts soo him “escaping” isn’t a big deal as you think. Only in hindsight it’s fun to think about.
You should look up Cpt Thomas Corquren (assuming I’ve spelt that correct) he was 24th Earl Dundonal , a sea captain that fought successfully I the war against Napoleon and his family with the loss of one man. The books on Hornblower and Jack Aubrey were based on his life.
Doesn’t mean you’re not unharmed. Casualties means your Sooo Harmed that you can’t fight. Usually very badly. I bet almost everyone gets harmed. Just not bad enough to be a casualty.
True - and the rest of him is just incapable of absorbing facts, however correctly explained or illustrated. This is not uncommon amongst Napoleon worshipers.
The Germans have the French to thank for their invading Armies to march in the shade! making use of all the Trees planted along their Avenues on orders of Napoleon. Built for the benefit of the French Army, only used by their enemies!😆
Conor, do yourself a favour and read the Patrick O’Brian series of incredibly researched novels about this period. You don’t need to like or know ships, they transport you word and thought perfectly to the time, full of humanity, drama and humour, but most of all timeless insight into what makes heroes, leaders, team players etc / before and with more wisdom than Belbin. Don’t talle my word - google the love. Your reactions are class. ❤👍🏽👍☘️
Since you seem to be interested in war stuff, why not look at the American War of Independence where the French navy defeated the British navy and won the war?
No, that is a 1st rate ship of the line, only. The rating system starts at 6th rate. The backbone of the Royal Navy was the 3rd rate. 2nd rates were rare. 1st rates were very rare. Nelson's favourite ship in his entire life was HMS _Agamemnon_ (a 64 gun 3rd rate with excellent ship handling and sea handling qualities) Most of the time the 6th rates to 4th rates were more commonly seen in far-flung colonies or patrolling vast distances, though 3rd rates were fairly common (common enough, to also make regular appearances in ports dotting the expanding empire) The reason why the 3rd rates were so feared, was that they had the finest balance of speed and firepower; fast enough to catch almost everything, and powerful enough to defeat almost everything. And British 3rd rates in the Age of Sail were terrifying.
Please don't think that I am not interested of your videos but I am and I am not affording them it's just that I was very tired last night because my sister come through and I was baking some cakes with the kids and the girls I was playing games with the kids and we went walking with my sister and we took the dogs and we took the kids for a walk to the park I'll be come back home and watch the television I'm not going nightclub and it so don't think that I'm not a flirty woman very old fashioned in my waist and I like to live a decent respectable life I'm a family person simple lifestyle makes me very happy in life and right now I'm very contented piercing but I do like you
10:30 This process is called destillation, and you can remove salt from water that way, but it takes a lot of energy to do that, and a lot of expensive equipement, further, water obtained that way isnt very safe to drink, as you obtain demineralized water that way, not just without salt - you really shouldnt drink that.
Either get Knighted or be buried at Westminster Abbey.
He was already knighted hence the peerage but otherwise yes...though he was eventually buried in St Paul's Cathedral after Trafalgar.
Either he is awarded an honour , becomes a Lord or Westminster Abbey, he dies.
Yes; in other words, he sees no middle ground between triumph and catastrophe.
The fact that this was just over 200 years ago, when people were just the same as us in mind and nature is so mind blowing. I have traced my ancestors further back than this time.
200 years isn’t that long, read a letter in the guardian, 1980s, from a man whose grandfather was born around that time - rare, but true.
God, I will never tire of Royal Navy ship names
They have amazing names then and now.
Yes you should definitely bring back that "If you're not ready to learn then you're in the wrong class" line. It is spectacularly good.
Or maybe with the wrong teacher.
Its a pity he seems unable to retain anything he learns
"By this time tomorrow I'll have gained a peerage or Westminster Abby." It means that he'll either win the battle and thusly be awarded with a peerage/noble title, or he will have lost the battle and died in the fighting.
The French Admiral's young son was on L'Orient with him when the ship exploded, refusing to leave his father -
this inspired the famous poem Casabianca , which most know it from its first lines,
"The boy stood on the burning deck,
Whence all but he had fled;..."
Was the admiral's body taken off, before the ship exploded?
The 3D graphics here are absolutely astonishing. Work this great isn’t easy.
The British ship that ran aground before getting to the battle was supposedly captained by Albert trotter😂😂🇬🇧
😂🤣👍🏻
A peerage is an aristocratic title. E.g. he gets to become a Lord, Baron, Viscount, etc.
Westminster Abbey is a huge cathedral-like building in London. It's a tomb for heroes. So if he "gains it", he's died in battle.
Fire at sea, in wooden ship waterproofed by pitch and miles of tarred rope, was the greatest single threat - as this battle proved so dramatically. And while desalination was possible, the small amounts produced was not worth the risk of the massive fires to boil the quantities needed to be practical. Hot meals and the oven were also so tightly limited and controlled.
The HMS Belepheron, which was badly damaged in the Battle of the Nile went on to be anchored off the English coast and was Napoleon's prison ship before he was finally exiled.
"Ship of the line" and "Battleship" are the same thing, having their shared origin in the term "ship of the line of battle".
The term "cruiser" also come from this time, with a ship of the line or sometimes frigate going on Cruiser operations like raiding, patrolling etc. When steam engines and armour came in you begin to see the divergence of the "battle" ship and the "cruiser" ship as range and speed were impacted ever more heavily by armour and armament.
So a ship of the line is both a battleship and a cruiser for its time, with bigger ones (1st and 2nd rate) more suited for battle and smaller ones (4th rate) more suited for cruiser work. The third rate is all rounder king and by far most common for that reason.
The fourth rate was phased out over time as third rate became more common and frigates became larger and more capable.
I've been on HMS Victory many times, it never gets boring.
If you captured a ship you captured everything. Doesn't matter if the ammunition is the wrong size, because it comes along with a ship full of guns of the correct calibre.
The entire crew profited from the 'prize money' according to rank. I would imagine the ship was sent for a refit to repair.
"Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey" basically translates as "Glory or Death"
Ship of the line (1st&2nd rate) :Battleship. 74 gun ship (3rd&4th rate):Heavy Cruiser. Frigate (5&6 rates): Destroyer. A "very" simple rule of thumb to compare Age of Sail ships with WWII ships. Its a lot more complicated than this. But this will suffice for the layman watching a random video.
Third rates are ships of the line. And frigates can be 4th-6th rate.
@@ayoa1173 As I stated. Its a simple guide for none naval types watching the odd vid with late Age of Sail ships.
I chopped out the 74s, as the majority of British ships were 74's at the Nile. If I had kept them in with the Capital ships. It would have given the impression that the RN turned up with almost all Battleships.
No need to give a lecture about the the little details. X frigate has all 12 pounders. Y frigate has caronnades and some 18 pounders. Then you have to explain what carranades are. Long cannons v short cannons etc. The big differences between a French rigged and a British rigged ship etc.
Its just not needed for the casual viewer.
Just as I left out unrated ships . A casual viewer has a sort of idea what a battleship, big cruiser, and destroyer are. Nine out of ten random people probably think USS Constitution and HMS Victory are basically the same ship with different flags.
Desalination is extremely slow and "costly" in energy, especially back then. It's why humans only use it as a last resort additional source of water.
Also it was not really a "evenly matched naval battle"... the French had more guns and more ships but had around the same amount crew (their bigger and more ships currently had less crew due to the supply expedition).
20:45 that little smirk as the animation slowly moves inbetween the fleets sounding off ship name vs ship name 😏
The term Battleship in WW1 and WW2 comes from "Line of Battle ship" from the days of sail. In the main navies the majority of ships of the line were 2 deckers with between 64 and 80 guns - most British ships were 2 decker 74's. The largest ships were the 3 deckers with around 100 guns - very costly to build and man with large crews of over 800 men and thus fewer in number compared to the 2 deckers. Both 2 and 3 deckers were used in the line of battle and are synonomus with the term Battleships used in the 20th century. Frigates were the fast and seaworthy single decker ships used for scouting and messaging for the battle fleets and general commerce protection and flying the flag around the world - they would compare to the light cruiser of the 20th century.
Sounding is using a thin rope, knotted every six feet (one fathom). It has a lead weight with a concave space at the bottom. Think of a shallow bell in shape. The concave area has a soft material put into it. which pickes up what is on the seabed. So The ship knows whats below it, and the depth.
Ship speed is measured using a ships log. It is a quarter circle with lines to keep it upright in the water. A knotted line (log line) is attached and then towed behind the ship. A sailor counts how many knots slip though his fingers in a given time. If six knots when through, the ship speed is six knots. The knots are spaced at a certain length from each other. This is where we get knots for nautical speed today.
I remember reading somewhere that a lot of sailors couldn't even swim at the time
It depends, for the British for the most part its untrue, most good crew were from the Isle of Wight, Southampton or Portsmouth, and so had grown up by the sea, fishing and playing in it as children. Even today almost all native British people from the south can swim, but For French or German crews it was quite different, many were recruited from inland towns and had never even been aboard a ship before they started their training.
There is also the issue that even if we can swim well often you are still going to die if you have to jump. Many coast lines have harsh rocky shores that kill anyone being tossed against them, and often you're hundred of miles from any land at all, or the tide will simply sweep you out to sea. If the tide is going out and running fast no matter how good a swimmer you are in many bays its so strong there is very little chance you survive.
@@alistairbolden6340 good to know, thank you
@@alistairbolden6340 lots couldn’t - lascars, pressed men, Irish - loads.
At sea, in order to avoid repeatedly hauling in and measuring the wet line by stretching it out with one's arms, it is common practice to tie marks at intervals along the line. These marks are made of leather, calico, serge and other materials, and so shaped and attached that it is possible to "read" them by eye during the day or by feel at night. Traditionally the marks were at every second or third fathom: at 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 17, and 20 fathoms. The "leadsman" called out the depth as he read it off the line. If the depth was at a mark he would call "by the mark" followed by the number, while if it was between two marks, he would call "by the deep" followed by the estimated number; thus "by the mark five", since there is a five-fathom mark, but "by the deep six", since there is no six-fathom mark. Fractions would be called out by preceding the number with the phrases "and a half", "and a quarter", or "a quarter less"; thus 4 3/4 fathoms would be called as "a quarter less five", 3 1/2 as "and a half three", and so on. Where the depth was greater than 20 fathoms the line would commonly be marked with a single knot at 25 fathoms, two knots at 30, and so on.
The battles of Austerlitz and The Bulge sprang to mind with the mention of fog deciding certain outcomes...
I could imagine Napoleon reaction to hear of all the treasury onboard L’Orient is lost to the bottom of Nile bay.
Likely resulted in a "Not tonight Josephine" moment.
17:50 the wind favour doesn’t change because of the Goliath captain’s decision.
Nelson : arrh i am Killed, ze frenchies have got me
Nelson : oh wait i have IRL plot armour, i'm fine
Your desalination question is a good one. It's a problem of equipment and time. The vapour needs to be angled away and onto something cold and then the fresh liquid drops into a different container. Keeping the "something cold", well, cold, is a problem as is capturing the vapour to divert.
It's very possible at the time but you would boil a lot of seawater to get not very much fresh water. And since these ships are super flammable they kept open fire in very specific parts of the ship limiting the process more.
With so many to get water for, and the men needing to waste water to pump all that sea water in the first place it's very awkward.
HMS Bellerophon ( known to the sailors as "Billy Ruffian ) was repaired and fought at Trafalgar. In 1815 after his defeat at Waterloo Napoleon surrendered to Frederick Lewis Maitland captain of the Billy Ruffian which was on blockade duty off the coast of France. She was broken up and sold for scrap in 1836. Some of the timber was bought by George Bellamy ex ships surgeon on Bellerphon and used to build a cottage in Plymstock near Plymouth Devon. It still stands.
Admiral bruises so badly hurt even lost his legs but he strapped himself to a chair on deck and stayed in command until the ship blew up. He went down with his ship a true commander. Salute 🫡🫡🫡
Lol, calling napoleon a giant 🤣
Tenerife is a Spanish island of the Canary Islands chain off the coast of Morocco. Popular holiday spot for Brits
you have remember all French Ships had a 3ed of the craw ashore not on Broad at the time of the battle
When they took soundings (finding how deep the water was), a sailor would "heave the lead", a lead weight with grease on the bottom attached to a line thrown ahead. The sailor would pull in the slack caused by the ship moving until the line was directly below, when the sailor would read the markings to get the depth. The grease was used to pick up sediment from the sea floor. Sometimes two sailors would be employed, taking turns in heaving the lead.
Ship of the line = Biggest, lots and lots of canons. HMS Victory had 104 of them.
there was a concept for a British ship with 170 guns
We did capture him and put him on an island he escaped and went on the rampage again.Napoleon did. If I am not mistaken.
A ship of the line is a ship that is intended to fight in the line of battle. Normally in the Royal Navy, that would be a 1st, 2nd or 3rd Rate ship. A ships Rate, is not about quality, it's about the number of guns. Ships were rated from 1st to 6th, ships with fewer guns than a 6th were unrated. The number of guns for each rate changed over time (100+ for a 1st rate at the time, I think).
Nelson saying "A peerage or Westminster Abby", was him saying that he would win a grand victory and gain a noble title, or die a heroes death and be buried in Westminster Abby.
Ships-of-the-Line were warships deemed large enough and strongly constructed enough, to sail in the line of battle, in broadsides. Such tactics had developed long, long before the Battle of the Nile. It is fair to point out that Britain often had battle fleets in line-of-battle, which were dominated by 3rd rate ships-of-the-line. In spite of how in modern parlance, saying, '3rd rate' may seem demeaning, this was by no means and insult in the late 18th/early 19th century, when regarding the Royal Navy.
It's 3rd rates were the backbone of the Royal Navy. While there were roughly 9 or 10 British 1st rates (>100 gun giants) built across the majority of the entire 18th century, there were >200 3rd rates at any given point in the time of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. There were even more 4th rates and 5th rates (including 5th rate frigates) Some classes were built by the several dozen. There were also much lighter 6th rates ships-of-the-line, built primarily for speed.
A lot of these could find themselves being used in active front-line service around the world, though when it came to big gun battles, the smaller ships were not really meant to be as heavily involved. A 6th rate would normally be carrying out duties more suited to it's size and classification. There were also brigs, sloops-of-war and gunboats, amongst many other smaller classes of vessels.
When you got to around 4th rate size and onward you'd start to see the more heavily-armed ships which are more cut out for the big gun battles. If you're in a 3rd rate with anywhere between 64 to 74 (sometimes 80; though that used to be a 2nd rate firepower band, in the earlier 17th century; though some 2nd rates by Nelson's day could have up to 98 guns; and had already been that way since the early 18th century), then you'd have about half of those guns pointing port or starboard. That's a pretty healthy level of firepower to stand up for oneself and slog it out in the mix with the big bruisers so to speak.
Then again, there are some notable moments in naval history where conventional things go out of the window. HMS _Terpsichore_ (of 32 guns; and 5th rate frigate status, of the _Amazon_-class) was plucky enough to pick a fight with the largest warship on the planet at the time, in 1797; a little while after the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797, HMS _Terpsichore_ (which had not been at the battle) encountered Santisima Trinidad (shorthand form of her name) limping back to Cadiz.
HMS _Terpsichore_ was patrolling the coast for smaller quarry, and to report on enemy movements. Unexpectedly, the 136-140 gun Santisima Trinidad, a great red and black leviathan lurching in from the West, had been sighted by the little British frigate. It would be completely reasonable for HMS _Terpsichore_ to simply avoid the juggernaut Spanish ship like the plague, though she did something else, entirely; she started firing at the Spanish giant, and harassing it for miles.
It was a hopeless mismatch of crew size, displacement, firepower and presence, though the British just fired away. 9 Spanish sailors were slain, and the crew was quite shocked at what the British had done. They returned fire, of course (dozens of larger guns, rippling away trying to punish the little British frigate) Indeed, HMS _Terpsichore_ kept a close eye on the direction of movement of this enormous, 4-decker Spanish 1st rate. For comparison a British 3rd rate has 2 decks. The British 5th rate frigate had more than 100 fewer guns of any size, than Santisima Trinidad.
Now, realistically, both the British and the French possessed 'better ships' aka more lethal and better-built, better-operated and more usefully deployed, 1st rate ships-of-the-line. Santisima Trinidad was actually quite unfortunate, and had a very dubious career for her sheer size and firepower. She very nearly struck her colours (surrendered) during the Battle of Cape St Vincent, when a pair of British 3rd rates singled her out and began to dismantle her. L'Orient (arguably one of the greatest of the French 1st rates, as seen at the Battle of the Nile) had fewer guns than Santisima Trinidad as well, but it clearly wasn't the decisive factor) Whenever the British _did_ bring their own, very rare and crew hungry 1st rates to bear, these were terrifying powerhouses. However, as I said, the real backbone of the Royal Navy was the reliable 3rd rate.
Britain had lots of 3rd rates of a bewildering array of classes (including many, captured from various opponents) and great classes were commissioned and built. Although these would be often thinly spread out, considering their true numbers in total in the overall Royal Navy, there'd be plenty of them in a lot of British fleet groups around the world. They were something of a 'Goldilocks Zone' of requirements; large enough to be very imposing and impressive, fast enough to catch almost everything, and powerful enough to defeat almost everything, when it did catch them. A pair, or a trio, of British 3rd rates, could easily work over French or Spanish 1st rates (and even more so, 2nd rates)
The clue is with HMS _Terpsichore_ a mere 5th rate frigate, having the cannonballs (roundshot) to actually have a go at the then largest warship in the world. It says, well, everything you need to know about the mindset, quality, skill and bravery of the Royal Navy of Nelson; the Nelsonian Royal Navy. They were a different breed. The Spanish return fire did damage HMS _Terpsichore_ in the masts and rigging, and fearing being immobilised, the British did break off after some time following the Spanish giant. They lost sight of it as it hastened to Cadiz, and they slowed for repairs. They hadn't lost a single man. Now, sure, the British frigate was in very real danger, though she could have run away from the first sighting, and not been considered dishonoured; it was a hilarious mismatch and it wasn't her place to be picking a fight with that. But it didn't stop them reminding the Spanish why they were the best navy in the world.
“L’Orient” was the biggest ship on the world at the time. The “Santisima Trinidad” had more decks and more guns but L’Orient had a bigger “body” I guess for carrying all that money and gold and supplies. She had more tonnage than any other ship in the world. When she was sank.
He meant death of glory , buried in Westminster Abbey or a Knighthood . The inshore course looked similar to what the first group would have taken to come alongside the French line as long as no-one ran aground and it was decisive as they were almost unopposed . It was a good animation .
32:12 - Always fascinating to see which captured ships the Royal Navy adopted with the original French name intact and which ones they felt they had to rename (sometimes because of tricky pronunciation or an existing British ship with the same name, but often for ideological reasons if it had been named after some enemy hero or Jacobin principle). It seems that of those taken at Aboukir Bay, Peuple Souverain and Franklin were considered objectionable names to have a HMS put in front of them; have to admit I'm a bit surprised about the second one, but obviously the Royal Navy in 1798 wasn't ready to forgive and forget just yet!
The French admiral was an absolute mad man his face and hands messed up both legs blown off by cannon ball but refuses to leave his post and died on deck... Salute !
Because he couldn't leave 😂 had no legs.
It is easy to feel sorry for the hapless French Navy from 1750-1815. The Brits were OP!
Only in Navy. Up until mid Napoleonic Era, The Brits were infact behind in "skill" when compared to the French and Prussians. It wasn't until the Wellington Era that skill played a bigger factor than Money in leadership, lessons being learned from the Navy. Titles and medal were being earned rather than exchanged for cash.
@@babalonkie Give it a rest, Britain never got a huge empire at that time from lacking behind in "skill" Britain destroyed France in the Seven years war, as that was the most crushing war for France territory wise in their history and they won that not just from Naval battles, all the while Britain and Prussia were being out outnumbered massively. No country could hope to invade Britain at that time, not while the Royal Navy was top dog.
@@ChrisCrossClash Navy Yes... Britain's Army not so much... it was below par of several other nations (whilst still being ahead of many others). Britain's Win/Loss ratio in land battles was nowhere near as successful as it's Navy.
"Britain never got a huge empire at that time from lacking behind in "skill""
No... 9/10 times it got it by Bringing guns to countries that never had them...
@@babalonkieand earlier the Dutch were excellent. Only from 1770s on, with Indian money, did the Navy excel. Also Industrial Revolution.
Ship need to fire more quickly and accurately than the opposition.
Ship Of The Line has a very specific meaning. You would have learnt it in the first of this series, that I also saw. I would chastise you, but now it comes to it, I am not 100% sure myself! I think it means a ship with over 100 cannon.
I am from Norfolk, England. On the road signs on entering Norfolk, it says, “Norfolk:Nelson’s county”. We are still very proud of our Horatio…
I’m pretty sure the first video said over 100 guns meant it was a 1st rate Ship of The Line not that it defined what it was
Taking soundings. What you are describing is measuring the speed of the ship. It was done by dropping a rope in the sea and over a set time, the person holding the rope would count the number of knots that went through his hands. Hence speed on the sea being measured in Knots. The knots were tied specifically at a predetermined distance apart…
Soundings were designed to see how deep the sea was. I am unaware of how that was done at this time in history. It had to involve rope and a weight, but don’t know the details, sorry.
A ship of the line or "line of battle ship" which later was shortened to battleship formed the line of battle in these times which normally saw the two fleets sailing alongside pounding each other . The smallest classed as such I believe was 64 guns but 74 was far more common .
'Title and Parliament' - there are TWO houses of parliament - the commons and the peerage. This is very roughly the same system as the senate and congress. The Peerage, being awarded by the politicians or (at this time) hereditary, can review bills made by the lower house, and send them back with recommendations for amendment. However the Commons made up of elected MP's has the final say. Nelson's peerage therefore gave him a seat in the upper house.
Yes “ship of THE LINE” remember the cape st Vincent video. In this age it was considered “crucial to maintain the LINE of battle”. Hence why Nelson was so good he used some tactics developed during the American revolutionary wars and Breaking the lines. Hence SHIP OF the LINE. THE main battleships.
Gained a Peerage or Westminster Abbey ... be lauded and given a title OR a burial place in Westminster Abbey.
Drachinifel is without doubt one of the most comprehensive experts on anything Naval, the man a mad man however doing 6 hrs Q and A's on anything from Nelson to what they served for lunch in the USS Iowa on Christmas day in 1944 or what are the dynamics of water in a swell and a 50,000 ship
Idk why the french didnt use the army to get supplies like food or water instead of sailors but for a weakened french fleet they fought hard they did more damage on the british fleet then the spanish did at cape st vincent and that was when the spanish outnumbered and outgunned the british 2 to 1 but yeah rest in peace thanks to british rescue crews 70 sailors were Rescued from the french flagship out of a crew of 1,078 men
As part of this series, you need to see the story of HMS Pickle.
Westminster Abbey would mean Nelson would have been killed which is exactly where he was entombed after Trafalgar .
Nelson is buried in St Pauls Cathedral although there is a memorial in Westminster Abbey.
@@avpmobi Your right I took a photo of it in St Pauls just got the two mixed up.
People that know what happened to L'Orient waiting quietly for 'The Thing'
Peerage - Being knighted therefore becoming Lord Nelson. Westminster Abbey - dead and buried in the Abbey.
British cannon was on 4 wheels. Well trained crew.
The question of austria is more the opposite. France's treatment of austria left them little choice but to fight. The holy roman empire was a bizarre institution built on balance stemming from old traditions, the french revolution, its export and frances stance of defending revolutionaries abroad, that led to france declaring war on the habsburgs and invading the austrian netherlands, meant peace wasnt an option since the habsburgs empire's existence was under threat.
After defeat in italy, austrias position was dire and its safety net in germany was being pulled towards france, france had also treated austria in a humiliating manner which shuck up the established order and left them looking weak next to their rivals.
After austerlitz, the austrians saw napoleon setting himself up as charlemagne and since the habsburgs were the heirs to charlemange, that meant that napoelon would destroy them one day as an obstacle so they had to fight back before they ceased to have the strength to. Succesive defeats created worse and worse conditions for austria such that the damage done to their economy and the complete disrespect napoleon treated them with, meant that there was no way austria could live with france.
The confusing thing was that napoleon seemed to genuinely believe that his threatening austria in order to marry one of their princesses, after everything, would make a nation that was about to go bankrupt under napoleons peace treaty, be friendly toward him.
The relationship between austria and france during the napoleonic wars was that of a bully being fought back against. Had napoleon treated them with respect instead of constant menacing remarks about how he could destroy austria if he wanted to, he might have been able to form peace with them. As is, metternich recognised that napoleon needed to go for austria to be safe before he'd even met him since napoleon had a mentality of doing what he wanted. regardless of how it affected others.
Its a series. Definetely must watch is part 1, battle of cape st. vincent, i think they uploaded a month ago
Distillation is one way to de-salinate yes that is absolutely correct.
The Brits had better trained crews and faster cannons.
As a peer at that time. Nelson being a baron, would allow him to sit in the House of Lords. The upper house of the British Parliment. The US Senate would be a rough analogue to the House of lords.
The wind was still in the English favor nothing changed in that regard only that the French didn’t think he could sail through there because it’s so shallow and they didn’t have enough sailors as they were all on land sooo being attacked from both sides made the battle even MORE decisive in the British favor
A sounding line or lead line is a length of thin rope with a plummet, generally of lead, at its end. Regardless of the actual composition of the plummet, it is still called a "lead". Leads were swung, or cast, by a leadsman, usually standing in the chains of a ship, up against the shrouds.
Measuring the depth of water by lead and line dates back to ancient civilization. It continues in widespread use today in recreational boating and as an alternative to electronic echo sounding devices. Greek and Roman navigators are known to have used sounding leads, some of which have been uncovered by archaeologists. Sounding by lead and line continued throughout the medieval and early modern periods and is still commonly used today. The Bible describes lead and line sounding in Acts, whilst the Bayeux Tapestry documents the use of a sounding lead during William the Conqueror's 1066 landing in England. Lead and line sounding operates alongside sounding poles, and/or echo sounding devices particularly when navigating in shallower waters and on rivers
"They expected great news from his fleet"
Even made a joke about his size with out knowing. This guy's obviously has English roots x
Good find Connor, this is a fab one.
Those ships were something else , great video Connor 😊
Britain was the most dominant sea faring nation in the history of the Human Race. at one point they were stronger and had more ships than the next 8 largest navies
Forgot about the battle at Medway, where the entire British navy was blown to smithereens in their own harbour by the Dutch? The capture of the British flagship HMS Royal Charles was a major humilliation for the British, forcing them to stop the then ongoing war against the Dutch immediatly. It took the British approximatly a century to rebuild their navy to the level before the battle at Medway. From that moment on, the British were indeed the most dominating sea faring nation. But unlike you are saying, that was not always the case.
Westminster Abbey is where some famous people of the day were interred.
For 'peerage or Westminister Abbey' you could say; Victory/reward or death.
British Kings of the waves for thousands of years.
Desalination needs a huge amount of fuel which is in short supply at sea. Plus fire and wooden warships are not a good idea.
there was a concept for a British ship with 170 guns HMS Duke of Kent
There’s tons of French generals at this time and test Napoleon was one of the biggest and best known but … how could they know this guy would become emperor…and also so what if not him someone else may have … there was so much stuff going on during the French Revolution.. many coups and coup attempts soo him “escaping” isn’t a big deal as you think. Only in hindsight it’s fun to think about.
You should look up Cpt Thomas Corquren (assuming I’ve spelt that correct) he was 24th Earl Dundonal , a sea captain that fought successfully I the war against Napoleon and his family with the loss of one man. The books on Hornblower and Jack Aubrey were based on his life.
Cochrane, and he was the 10 Earl of Dundonald.
@@ayoa1173 thank you for the corrections
Imagine if HMS Goliath had made wrong decision to run aground on sandbanks shoals 😮 History would have been so changed .....
Doesn’t mean you’re not unharmed. Casualties means your Sooo Harmed that you can’t fight. Usually very badly. I bet almost everyone gets harmed. Just not bad enough to be a casualty.
Conor your mind is a discombobulated maze 😂
That's just what happens when an American mind learns too much history!
True - and the rest of him is just incapable of absorbing facts, however correctly explained or illustrated. This is not uncommon amongst Napoleon worshipers.
He never said I no ships only hardship's, what he did say was I have a right to be blind sometimes. I really do not see the signal.
Good for you, Connor. I fear our English/British history is not taught to our school kids these days.
If you haven't seen it. I highly recommend you watch Master and commander, far side of the world. If you like this stuff you'll love that film 100%
Connor, another first class reaction. Top-job! 👍👍
now this were some real men and just imagine the chaos and everything.
shit.
Another battle lost; another chip on the shoulders of the French. Cheer up messieurs you have the Germans as your neighbours.
The Germans have the French to thank for their invading Armies to march in the shade! making use of all the Trees planted along their Avenues on orders of Napoleon. Built for the benefit of the French Army, only used by their enemies!😆
Or for the peninsula war, you could just watch Sharpe lol
Yes i recently watched them they are on youtube, but i remember watching them on my 14" colour TV when they where first broadcast.
Bastard
@stue2298 - some of us read the exellent books as Bernard Cornwell published them
Good video it went by so quick I wanted more
What an amazing video. Thanks Connor.
Conor, do yourself a favour and read the Patrick O’Brian series of incredibly researched novels about this period.
You don’t need to like or know ships, they transport you word and thought perfectly to the time, full of humanity, drama and humour, but most of all timeless insight into what makes heroes, leaders, team players etc / before and with more wisdom than Belbin.
Don’t talle my word - google the love.
Your reactions are class.
❤👍🏽👍☘️
if British and French joined forces back then it would have been unstoppable
Oh look - a pig flying !
t means he will either get a peerage or be buried at westmister abbey.
Epic History make fantastic videos, very much a favourite channel
they would, if they could take the whole ship Connor, and then it would become a British ship...
Great vid great animation Always like your reactions Thank you 😊
Since you seem to be interested in war stuff, why not look at the American War of Independence where the French navy defeated the British navy and won the war?
you would keep the capture ship
Ship of the line is 100 or more guns.
No, that is a 1st rate ship of the line, only.
The rating system starts at 6th rate.
The backbone of the Royal Navy was the 3rd rate.
2nd rates were rare. 1st rates were very rare.
Nelson's favourite ship in his entire life was HMS _Agamemnon_ (a 64 gun 3rd rate with excellent ship handling and sea handling qualities)
Most of the time the 6th rates to 4th rates were more commonly seen in far-flung colonies or patrolling vast distances, though 3rd rates were fairly common (common enough, to also make regular appearances in ports dotting the expanding empire) The reason why the 3rd rates were so feared, was that they had the finest balance of speed and firepower; fast enough to catch almost everything, and powerful enough to defeat almost everything. And British 3rd rates in the Age of Sail were terrifying.
Heavy weight on the end of the sounding line stops too much movement and takes it down quickly
It means I will be a Lord or buried in westminster abbey....
British sailors were more disciplined and could load and fire faster.
Why the bloody loud music ?, i gave up after 5 minutes.
Please don't think that I am not interested of your videos but I am and I am not affording them it's just that I was very tired last night because my sister come through and I was baking some cakes with the kids and the girls I was playing games with the kids and we went walking with my sister and we took the dogs and we took the kids for a walk to the park I'll be come back home and watch the television I'm not going nightclub and it so don't think that I'm not a flirty woman very old fashioned in my waist and I like to live a decent respectable life I'm a family person simple lifestyle makes me very happy in life and right now I'm very contented piercing but I do like you
10:30 This process is called destillation, and you can remove salt from water that way, but it takes a lot of energy to do that, and a lot of expensive equipement, further, water obtained that way isnt very safe to drink, as you obtain demineralized water that way, not just without salt - you really shouldnt drink that.