The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company - An overview of the project

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  • Опубликовано: 31 дек 2024

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  • @markalton2809
    @markalton2809 2 дня назад +2

    As a dweller upon the highest navigable reach of the River Trent, I look forward to you visit immensely.

  • @davejob630
    @davejob630 2 дня назад +1

    Thanks for the update! I hope the launch goes well.

  • @stevecompton6283
    @stevecompton6283 День назад

    The proposed river trips are great news. I can't wait to see the finished ship and watch it being put into the water.

    • @stevecompton6283
      @stevecompton6283 День назад

      I also can't wait to see the results of how the boat performs under sail. I know that there is no hard evidence of it having a sail. So its use may answer the question as to whether this was a sea going vessel or really just a river boat.

  • @michaelhollinshead6945
    @michaelhollinshead6945 2 дня назад +3

    Wonderful presenters.

  • @Chris_natour
    @Chris_natour 2 дня назад +1

    Chapeau! This is breathtakingly ambitious. But you are succeeding! Congratulations. Whish I could have a little part in it. Greetings from Germany and a fat like, Chris

  • @harveywetdog
    @harveywetdog 2 дня назад

    Excellent work thank you 👏

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman 2 дня назад +2

    There are a lot of people still building boats very much like this ship.
    The 'planks' are called 'strakes'.
    The strake against the keel is the 'garboard'.
    The strake at the gunwhal is called the "sheer" strake.
    The 'rivets' are called 'rovings', we use brass and copper to reduce corrosion. It's amazing this boat used wrought iron, it tends to corrode to easily.

  • @davidprocter3578
    @davidprocter3578 2 дня назад +2

    A fascinating project, had my health been better I would have been first in the que of volunteers. Needless to say this is a project close to my heart and something I have dreamed of since a boy. I must say the set of drawings are quite something, a substantial project in their own right, the research and lifting from photographs scaling etc a sterling effort, I wonder just how many bodies worked on this down in Southampton. In no way do I mean this as a criticism , just an observation but the drawings do not reflect the rather queer swerve seen in the planks and rivets toward the hood ends in the old photos fairly centrally between keel and bulwarks. There must have been a reason for the original boat to have been built this way, not that I can see why, perhaps it served to stiffen the ships planking or the stem or stern ??? was it there to help accommodate steering boards?? of course the obvious answer might be they filled the gap generated in more linear planking, in carvel planking are they not given a weird name like stealer boards or some such title. all just guess work , speculation at it's worst. I hope to live long enough to see this project on the water at least, but if not I would like to wish her the best of luck and a hearty thank you to everyone involved in this universally dreamed project.

  • @MilesRudge
    @MilesRudge День назад +2

    Some beer has been consumed in the making of this ship!

  • @PeterJessenDK
    @PeterJessenDK 2 дня назад +8

    I hope the reconstruction efforts are not being limited by an island mentality. For more than half a century Danish archeologists and shipwrights in Roskilde have developed a unique experience within reconstruction of this type of vessel. I sincerely hopy you have drawn heavily on their knowledge and methods.
    I wish you good luck and shall follow your progress closely.

    • @TheSuttonHooShipsCompany
      @TheSuttonHooShipsCompany  2 дня назад +4

      @@PeterJessenDK thank you. We have some lovely contacts at Roskilde and will be back there it May 👍🏼

    • @cedhome7945
      @cedhome7945 2 дня назад +1

      If you get the chance to go on the water in one of the reconstructions you will be amazed that anyone ever went across oceans in one..... Roskilde is breathtaking in its simplicity... Just plane bare walls, but the ships 👌

    • @saxonstu6803
      @saxonstu6803 2 дня назад +4

      Why would you make the assumption of “island mentality “ from the onset?
      Seems like someone has their own biases whilst judging others

    • @jbuckley2546
      @jbuckley2546 День назад +1

      The same island mentality that gave us the worlds greatest empire?

    • @cosnahang
      @cosnahang 2 часа назад +1

      Thank you for asking this - I spent a fantastic day 10years ago there making planks from a metre round trunk and all this reminded me of it.

  • @Womberto
    @Womberto 23 часа назад

    Raedweld? I used to have to put that in my Mini.

  • @aodhhead
    @aodhhead 4 часа назад

    Id love to be part of that. Do you accept voluntary workers? Some skills

  • @MatthewTinker-au-pont-blanc
    @MatthewTinker-au-pont-blanc 2 дня назад +4

    I find this fascinating! Why do you have to have subtitles that cannot be turned off? I have ADHD and I find this an unpleasant distraction that somewhat spoils this other wise great video! Cheers Matthew

    • @TheSuttonHooShipsCompany
      @TheSuttonHooShipsCompany  2 дня назад +2

      @@MatthewTinker-au-pont-blanc I’ll get someone to have a look. We are a small volunteer organisation and very dependant on the skills that are volunteered but I’m sure we can work it out. Thanks for letting us know.

    • @markalton2809
      @markalton2809 2 дня назад +2

      @@TheSuttonHooShipsCompany As my son is profoundly Deaf, I thank you for not relying upon auto generated subtitles, which can be rather inaccurate and confusing for Deaf people.

    • @iancrozier8068
      @iancrozier8068 2 дня назад +1

      I also find that subtitles can be somewhat distracting, and am glad the team will take on board this comment.
      Although I would prefer subtitles to not letting others also enjoy this great project.
      They will , I'm sure, endeavour to please as many as possible.
      What an idiot I feel, this is not a New project, how out of date am I. 🤦‍♂

    • @MatthewTinker-au-pont-blanc
      @MatthewTinker-au-pont-blanc 2 дня назад

      @markalton2809 I apreciate the problem for deaf people, I discovered during Corid just how much I lip read ! I now have hearing aids which has changed a lot for me. I am still severely ADHD, subtitles br eak my concentration !

  • @drspock3454
    @drspock3454 День назад

    So its 31 december 2024 did they launch in 2024 like they said or not and if not then when?

  • @mikeg3588
    @mikeg3588 День назад

    Nice idea, but there's no way the UK authorities will let this vessel go to sea. Have you checked with the MCA?

    • @umaikakudo
      @umaikakudo День назад

      Free men don't ask for permission or abide tyrant's decrees.

  • @HamishGardiner-ru7xg
    @HamishGardiner-ru7xg 20 часов назад +1

    Don’t believe the vessel is anywhere near finished. Have been in contact with these guys and they are still desperately looking for timber sources. Gonna have some major problems I think. What British historians are slowly beginning to accept is that the UK’s forests and tree stocks were not truly virgin stands but had been intensely managed from early Neolithic times, through the Bronze Age and into the early medieval period for the purposes of building and ship construction. With the people planting trees to ensure available stocks of Oak etc, not just for the next few years but for generations into the future. The romantic idea of Celts and Anglo-Saxons living in simple round houses or rudimentary halls like African tribesman has been a persistent fable but is slowly giving way to the realisation that a time traveller heading back into pre- roman Britain or Anglo-Saxon England would discover a built landscape much like that of Tudor England with half timbered buildings of all shapes and sizes. The Norman conquest with it brutal suppression of the English and the restrictions on access to timber destroyed the tradition of maintaining tree stocks for the future and the last of the great trees planted by our ancestors were used up in the creation of the Royal Navy during the 1700’s. I think the Sutton Hoo Boat Project is helping historians realise just how much advance planning was required by our ancestors to ensure that timber stocks would be maintained for their descendants. There would literally have been men planting trees knowing that they would not be harvested for 200 years or more! One more thing guys, I see no adzes present? The adze is an ancient tool which has been known in the UK and throughout the world since the Stone Age. It is a much better tool for shaping wood in a multitude of ways than any axe. Do you really think our AngloSaxon ancestors, who were master wood workers would not know of or be using an adze? Come on!

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman 2 дня назад +1

    Strange how these people turned to wrought iron rovings (rivets) when copper and brass are easier to work and last longer.

    • @seancassidy7192
      @seancassidy7192 2 дня назад

      I presume a copper nail wouldn't be strong enough for the forces involved in a ship of this size? That's only my best questimate. I may Google the tensile strength of copper v wrought iron🫣

    • @gherkinisgreat
      @gherkinisgreat 2 дня назад

      Iron was used to make the original plus bronze or brass rivets are an awful lot more expensive

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman 2 дня назад +1

    Similar boat being sailed in the following video;
    ruclips.net/video/7yHV03hYM2A/видео.htmlsi=ISs70nC1EVTJUQ2q

  • @barneymagee3285
    @barneymagee3285 День назад

    Those sub titles….😩

  • @johnwalker8952
    @johnwalker8952 2 дня назад +1

    Please allow the viewer to turn the bloody subtitles off! Really distracting!

    • @steveholman3451
      @steveholman3451 2 дня назад

      Simply just put a piece of paper over the bottom 1/3 of your screen! Problem solved!

    • @cliffol4529
      @cliffol4529 2 дня назад

      john,, not everyone has good hearing, which is a good thing in my view, we don't have to listen to a-holes.

  • @johnjackson8561
    @johnjackson8561 День назад

    Grave robbers masquerading as historians

  • @tommypouncey5667
    @tommypouncey5667 2 дня назад

    You need to work on the form of these videos. If I wanted a conversation with an retired man I’d go to the bowling green