Block o Butter Direct comparison sure, but if you compare the size of modern ships, nope, wood today is mostly just decoration and insulation. Only yachts and smaller boats still use wood for hull.
Block o Butter Elaborate, because the shipbuilding industry back then used wood for everything from the scaffolding to the dockyards as opposed to today which is mostly concrete dry docks and metal gantries.
What's more amazing is the fact that in just the span of 240 years, we went from this to multi-billion dollar nuclear-powered aircraft carriers carrying weapons unimaginable at that time.
There's a forest of 300 000 straight and tall trees in Sweden that was planted between 1830 and 1840, intended to produce the finest oak for warships by the year 1980. It still exists and the trees were indeed perfect for wooden warships by that time.
It's also amazing that a calculator a few hundred years ago is about 1 cubic meter in size is now the same size as your hand, and not only that, it is also every machine combined into one.
Im french and some years ago, i visited the Hermione at Rochefort as it was being built (they allowed visitors to raise funds, it was flippin expensive to cut a whole forest for that) and i can ensure you that it is a very impressively well made ship ... i hope you americans liked it !
@@alpharius4208 In Fakt those Ships were fast. But not the fastest of his Time. The fastest Ships back in the Days was Sloops. A Sloop was build for speed.
Jean Ladoire my French Cousin’ it goes without saying that us Americans owe a great deal of gratitude to the founding of this republic’ the men who fought and so willingly died so that the sparks of freedom could ignite the torch seen by the rest of the known world that we’ as a people, would not be oppressed by a foreign king, I tip my hat to you sir’ it’s a shame really that the squabbles of monarchs drag their country’s to war on the backs of its citizens to fatten there own greedy pockets, god bless all the Mariners of all the navy’s back then’ from the men of the British Royal Navy’ to the Spanish’ the French’ Dutch’ and whoever else that had the spirit and gall to step onto the decks of such elegant vessels’ truly a glorious age’
beautiful ship ..I have to admit the french build things with quality and with pride ,,,im part French and proud of the heritage I would like to go to france someday and also see the wonderful ship
I think it's a good idea to remind the Americans exactly who won the war for them. France was a major power, without their help they would never have beaten the British.
I'm not 100% on Naval ensign laws but do Civilians Vessels have to strictly follow Ensign codes? Is it based on different countries because in the US i see many private ships flying pirate flags
+ Troy "in the US i see many private ships flying pirate flags" That's fine if they're US boats in US waters. If they're sailing into foreign waters, though, they need to fly the US national ensign (The "American Flag"). Technically even the yacht ensign is not allowed. (And the yacht ensign really should be reserved for when docked or at anchor, and the national ensign used when underway, but few yachtsmen change from one to the other.)
the main goal of this ship was to rebuild an old vessel with old technicoly. they made of lot of research to find plans, threes with good shapes, find the way to use old tools, find people to make her, testing forgotten working technics. and now, it sails, and pretty good.
I'm sure in the build video they are using powertools - and I don't blame them as it would take a long time/lot of labour to do this with the tools of the period. Still a glorious and remarkable feat of engineering in this age but you have to appreciate the work that must have gone into these ships a few hundred years ago :)
They didn't build the Hermione like the first, cause the modern Hermione was builded during a lot of years, so the wood move during this time (wood didn't see water during many years), so they had change some things to rebuild the ship. The first one was builded during 6 months so they hadn't problems with this. You can learn all of this in is harbor , at Rochefort, were the Hermione was builded and were is the ship when they don't sail. I'm sorry if my english isn't good, but I'm a french people!
What a beautiful ship. I sincerely hope more like her can be rebuilt and sailing again. I miss those sails on the horizon so deeply. The Golden Age of Sail needs to return!!!
Stunning work, I'm a historian seeing immobile ships like HMS Victory for example made me be stunned to see the quality. Too see a man and a few others made a MOBILE ship which was sailed to course the same track as the first did... That is pure skill.
@@ulrichkalber9039 Well she's plenty seaworthy now, they take out into the bay every year with a big ceremony, she can even sail under her own power. You're right though, I would not want to take her across the Atlantic.
Simo, 90% where did you pluck that figure from? REad a up on your British navel terminology, I assure you, not much of it is Dutch. EDucate us and give us a few more - 90% is a big number.
Also Augustus has a point, rape cases happen all the time during war. You probably can’t name a country who isn’t guilty of rape. And France was occupied by Germany so to blame the allies for destruction of war is a bit silly.
French navy defeated the British navy in front of Virginia, which allowed Washington (also supported by french troops) to defeat the redcoats on land...and a few years later, when France was at war with England ans asked the US for support, the US delayed any help or decision until the war was over...
At 1:15 French ground troops did not just play a major role at the Battle of Yorktown. The battle was fought MAINLY by French troops, with the Americans providing support, not the other way around. But of course, American history books won't tell you that.
@@TOFKAS01 Maybe the revolution would have been only postponed... or maybe the colonies would have become another Canada... Who knows ? In any case, the Brits were just too greedy, as always...
@@davidvincent380 Nope, they just colected taxes like every gouvernment. Its relatively likely that the 13 colonies would be now today a part of the Commonwealth of nations. But then the whole history of the 20th century would have been different.
She is beautiful !! As are all the the other Replicas being made these days. This is what a real ship looks like. Beautiful, sexy, elegant, Intimidating, strong, and Most importantly, Made with the hands of true craftsmanship. It's Awesome to see these beautiful ships being build once again, and just as they were in their time. God bless all who sail on her and bring them all great joy and success in life.
This ship was built and is berthed in my local town, Rochette France...we see her often going in and out of the Charente estuary...quite an accomplishment!
However it costed the French aristocracy its very own existence for being the main cause of bankruptcy that had triggered the Revolution (according to a substantial number of historians)..
+Vincent Pescus spot on Vincent, a 'feudal' tax system that excluded the nobility and the church placed the total weight of raising revenue on the French 'working class.' Several years of poor harvests prior to 1789 led to widespread famine and directly to revolt and revolution.
God bless Marquis De Lafayette's famous French frigate of his arrival for his quest into the American Revolutionary War of Independence. Vice La France! 🇫🇷🗼❤🇺🇸🗽🌈
I've had the privilege to sail everything from small fishing boats to destroyers but never a ship like that. I'd consider it an honor to sail it across the Atlantic.
Back in the day when ships were things of dreams, transporting people wanting to settle the new world and all its opportunities. We often forget that these ships made the world what it is today strengthening trade and countries connections to each other, the ships of old really are magical and I love that these people are bringing the old styles and building techniques that people use to have. Thank the French,British and other nation too build such wonderful ships.
5:00 Weird way of explaining it. To my knowledge the Royal Navy had a tradition of creating plans for all the ships they captured, purchased, or otherwise acquired, and luckily the archives have been more or less completely preserved until today. So the National Maritime Museum has an enormous number of ships plans from the UK and all the enemies she fought against.
It is a fact that British navy held the French warship for the bests of their times. Even admiral Nelson said that the best navy would have been French ships manned by british crews.
At the time, the original Hermione was built in less than a year. It took 17 years to build the replica, starting with research in the archives. The team turned to the British archives. The Brits who at the time had captured the Concorde, Hermione's sister ship, and still had her plans, then looking for wood, it was necessary to find 1,160 cubic meters of oak (from the Perche forest, former province North East of Rochefort), the best marine wood, to complete the Hermione, the ropes were made in the old tradition, soaked in tar to prevent rotting, etc. The only difference from the original was the equipment of an engine, a generator (obligatory for safety reasons), and toilets. And finally, to learn how to sail this beauty.
@@francinesicard464 add on top of it that back then the state was paying to build the ships, that hundreds of people were working at one time on the ships as opposed to the Hermione which was built by the association’s volunteers with usually no more than 10-20 people working on it on a day, that they didn’t work on it every day and that it was paid for by donations and the price of the visitors’ tickets to see it’s construction.
Ce petit documentaire montre les plus belles images de l'hermionne sous toute ses voiles..Et on le doit a nos plus terribles ennemis de l'époque. Les anglais ont également un beau musée maritime a greenwish et surtout à Hartlepool Porsmouth , mais rien qui navigue comme notre frégate. Dommage qu'on ne puisse pas voir le cutty starck , le warrior, et le hms victory faire des apparitions en mer.
We should make more working ships like this - just for the sake of it's intricacies so that we do not lose the knowledge of rigging and building and operations.
Correction: The resurrection of a beautiful long lost ship in a much more peaceful world than before. (Give or take the small conflicts, compared to the major conflicts and calamities of ages past.)
Beautiful ship from a proud nation. Yes I am. British, no I am not being sarcastic. I wish that we had something similar. HMS Victory is far too precious to the country and HMS Warrior is basically the size of an aircraft carrier.
They sure go well when the wind is abeam. It is a beautiful boat. At the time (late 1700s) the French had started to take their navy seriously while the Dutch and English were not running at their prime. The French trained a corps of Navy men who learned naval tactics and they created a pride in uniform. This ship was nimble because it was the next generation of design.
i think its just great. Even the building of the ship. I think Its very healthy as a society to revise old building techniques. Even though the knowledge is outdated. You'll never know where it'll be needed.
Ironically, the french révolution saved the brits, cos the superb french marine build by King Louis XVI was dismantled by the revolutionaries and the good royalist officers took refuge with other kings!
There are volumes of information to learn about tall ships . All the thousands of parts Is mind boggling. Making them work in yunison is short of a miracle... awsome to behold..
yeah it's pretty obvious she was forgotten or more likely ''ignored'' and that's because that truth hurts, americans prefers to be friends with brits than french. Most pop culture tends to do what we call french-bashing
not really French ship were fast, British strong. but the real difference was the standardisation and logistics. the brits had a clear advantage, France had to maintain a strong land military at the same time
It depends how the ships were built. The French and British built good ships, along with the Spanish. The French built for speed and manoeuvrability. The British built large powerful vessels, but they were slow and lumbering. Each side’s ships paid contributions towards their own country. The Spanish had their own specifics, the Dutch did, the French did, the British did and the US did. Each to their own
Jisk van der Veen I think so; they're still bothering to replace all of her copper plating, and her present state in drydock isn't supposed to be permanent.
What instrument is that at the beginning and I always hear it when I watch things with these old ships, is it the fife flute or the tin whistle I’ve heard both mentioned before or is it both were used?
These ships are very seaworthy IF handled and sailed properly... Im glade we still kno how to build them in the old way.... But ship handling has sliped in my vew... Crews that sail large square rigged ships should be trained on one for at least a year.... Sail north Atlantic and demonstrate your abiliy underway....
Sorry, im not a proffessional in those Things, but was the Paint Blue and Gold not originally the Paint of the Royal Navy ??? Why have a French Warship a Blue/Gold Paint ??
Red, blue and ocher yellow(its not gold) were the original colors of the Hermione of 1793 (Revolutionnary time), who which sank off the Croisic (Loire-Atlantique). The blue was using for the high dignitary only, because it was expansive and not much discreet.
-"Imagine how this was, Will... no engines, no computers, .... just the wind, the ocean, and the stars to guide you." -"Bad food, brutal discipline..... no women.... "
Without the French fleet there would have been no victory at Yorktown. The French gave their lives to the American cause or at least to beat the British.
It is certain that it was an important effort for the king of France because for his colonies like Quebec he did not do it. Warships cost a fortune and the English completely dominated Channel and the Atlantic. France was never as good as the English at sea because it was often at war in Europe. for the English dominating the sea was vital.
you should also check out the "Constitution", an American wooden frigate that still is technically in the navy today, and is still maintained by a crew and dockworkers
Seems like a good idea to me. We should remember history as it happened. If I were younger I might even be willing to sign up for mission like that. Sounds like it was quite an adventure!
Somebody get L'Hermione and HMS Surprise at sea at the same time for a replica battle. Are USS Constitution and HMS Temeraire sea-worthy too? HMS Victory definitely not. No longer has her upper masts. There was a HMS Hermione in the Royal Navy in this period; worse mutiny in our history. HMS Surprise captured her back from the Spaniards.
the hull of the ship works almost like an airplane wing, she stats off narrow in the front and does some wonky curves in the back. cut the ship in half an look at old wing designs for planes theirs some similarity between them although feint but still present.
Jisk van der Veen Aye, tapering the stern is a classic design. The Dutch were really magnificent and influential shipbuilders. Same to the French too, with their pioneering of the frigate. Though of course, I recall a saying that goes "The French are good at building ships, and the British are great at capturing them". :P
Aye!! I did a big study on Dutch shipwrights; remarkable, just remarkable how they build without any drawings! French indeed did a good thing in building ships, but in the 17th century they ordered theirs at our shipyards (just a few, but very large ones). French however developed these large wooden vessels in vessels of speed (Hermione is a late 18th century example). The British knew how to handle them best ;)
Yeah, she's bluff above the water and sharp below. Gives the hull a finer entry and a longer run as she goes aft. That's why she's so fast. Heavy, but fast despite it.
this type of ships are in my opinion the most beautiful ships in history.
In OUR opinion xd
@@Comandante_Fernandez Yes, comrade.
@@mrbritannia3833 Ñ
Not debatable. The golden age of sail is called the golden age for a reason
the Black Pearl
Ships used to be so much elegant back in the days
stellvia hoenheim You think plenty trees aren't involved in today's shipbuilding industry?
Block o Butter Direct comparison sure, but if you compare the size of modern ships, nope, wood today is mostly just decoration and insulation. Only yachts and smaller boats still use wood for hull.
I'm not talking about wood being used on the ship.
Block o Butter Elaborate, because the shipbuilding industry back then used wood for everything from the scaffolding to the dockyards as opposed to today which is mostly concrete dry docks and metal gantries.
Elegant but brutal. These ships knew true battle.
When cosplayers go the extra mile.
The extra nautical mile
Marco de Cordoba. Nice one
You mean the extra 4,760 miles****
Marco de Cordoba lol i was gonna say that
reenactors more like, cosplay implies fiction
And It still has more firepower than Somali pirates
You're a Somali pirate and this guy pulls up on your shore to conquer your land like an imperial
Like 500 here. It's been an honor.
@@TheTurtleOfGods of course it’s more powerful
Nahs its all fun and games till somalia brings out the 50 and shoots the ship up
I would bet on a modern speed boat with a .50 cal could out range the cannons by a lot
Me and the bois sending reinforcements to the American revolutionaries:
Kek
Moi and le boyes
A bit late but still appreciable
What's more amazing is the fact that in just the span of 240 years, we went from this to multi-billion dollar nuclear-powered aircraft carriers carrying weapons unimaginable at that time.
There's a forest of 300 000 straight and tall trees in Sweden that was planted between 1830 and 1840, intended to produce the finest oak for warships by the year 1980. It still exists and the trees were indeed perfect for wooden warships by that time.
@@no1DdC visingso oak forest
@@no1DdC ohhhhh the sweet sweet irony ??
and yet those same aircraft carriers get lost thousands of miles off course
It's also amazing that a calculator a few hundred years ago is about 1 cubic meter in size is now the same size as your hand, and not only that, it is also every machine combined into one.
Im french and some years ago, i visited the Hermione at Rochefort as it was being built (they allowed visitors to raise funds, it was flippin expensive to cut a whole forest for that) and i can ensure you that it is a very impressively well made ship ... i hope you americans liked it !
Jean Ladoire I want to see it race the USS Constitution
Kaiser Groog
Could be an interesting race indeed
@@alpharius4208
In Fakt those Ships were fast. But not the fastest of his Time.
The fastest Ships back in the Days was Sloops.
A Sloop was build for speed.
Jean Ladoire my French Cousin’ it goes without saying that us Americans owe a great deal of gratitude to the founding of this republic’ the men who fought and so willingly died so that the sparks of freedom could ignite the torch seen by the rest of the known world that we’ as a people, would not be oppressed by a foreign king, I tip my hat to you sir’ it’s a shame really that the squabbles of monarchs drag their country’s to war on the backs of its citizens to fatten there own greedy pockets, god bless all the Mariners of all the navy’s back then’ from the men of the British Royal Navy’ to the Spanish’ the French’ Dutch’ and whoever else that had the spirit and gall to step onto the decks of such elegant vessels’ truly a glorious age’
beautiful ship ..I have to admit the french build things with quality and with pride ,,,im part French and proud of the heritage I would like to go to france someday and also see the wonderful ship
As a Brit, I should be disgusted. But she is a very pretty ship.
Don't worry you can always hop on the Victory and sink it if you feel the need.
Let's be honest, we keep fighting but we secretly are fascinated by each other's country. (Don't tell anybody I said that though, you roastbeef.)
Ok Frog
I think it's a good idea to remind the Americans exactly who won the war for them. France was a major power, without their help they would never have beaten the British.
jaymog Most decently educated Americans know this, then you got all the other people who don't know when WW2 started.
Hermione's crews: Bonjour! People of America! we're here to help you ruin a Englishman's day
😢😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤
“Do you see that British Man-O-War?”
“Oui?”
“I don’t want to.”
“Sans délai!”
Colonial/French discourse (Probably)
what a beautiful frigate, she is.
Provocateur - how does that relate to a beautiful frigate?
@Provocateur
Dumb troll.
Aye lad she’s a beauty all right
Wait, I thought this was a brig
@@noahreischmann64
And perfect for Kenway’s fleet
Great ship, but in 1780 the tricolor did not exist, should be the royal flag of France
I'm not 100% on Naval ensign laws but do Civilians Vessels have to strictly follow Ensign codes? Is it based on different countries because in the US i see many private ships flying pirate flags
Hi,
It's international rules for navigation !
You can't have a ship with an unofficial flag.
Le pavillon blanc de la Royale!
+ Troy "in the US i see many private ships flying pirate flags"
That's fine if they're US boats in US waters. If they're sailing into foreign waters, though, they need to fly the US national ensign (The "American Flag"). Technically even the yacht ensign is not allowed. (And the yacht ensign really should be reserved for when docked or at anchor, and the national ensign used when underway, but few yachtsmen change from one to the other.)
War of 1812 ;)
the main goal of this ship was to rebuild an old vessel with old technicoly. they made of lot of research to find plans, threes with good shapes, find the way to use old tools, find people to make her, testing forgotten working technics.
and now, it sails, and pretty good.
Experimental archeology. The Frenchmen are building a medevial castle just that way, too . . .
I'm sure in the build video they are using powertools - and I don't blame them as it would take a long time/lot of labour to do this with the tools of the period. Still a glorious and remarkable feat of engineering in this age but you have to appreciate the work that must have gone into these ships a few hundred years ago :)
They didn't build the Hermione like the first, cause the modern Hermione was builded during a lot of years, so the wood move during this time (wood didn't see water during many years), so they had change some things to rebuild the ship. The first one was builded during 6 months so they hadn't problems with this.
You can learn all of this in is harbor , at Rochefort, were the Hermione was builded and were is the ship when they don't sail.
I'm sorry if my english isn't good, but I'm a french people!
I thought it was a btec USS Constitution
At 4:14 you can see an electrical prop just beside the rudder, it seems it's not all original..
As a French-American, this is an awesome story
i cried too
What a beautiful ship. I sincerely hope more like her can be rebuilt and sailing again. I miss those sails on the horizon so deeply. The Golden Age of Sail needs to return!!!
Hopefully they can sail her to Hollywood and she can feature in many future movies about the period.
They take too many trees to make.
Stunning work, I'm a historian seeing immobile ships like HMS Victory for example made me be stunned to see the quality. Too see a man and a few others made a MOBILE ship which was sailed to course the same track as the first did... That is pure skill.
Roblox Thomas sure
@Franz Robert Maravilla Surcouf* ;)
USS Constitution can still be sailing US waters... invaluable sailing tool.
@@DVolvoguy777-x7o i would not want to risk crossing the atlantic with it, but i hear they want to restore it to seaworthy(!) condition.
@@ulrichkalber9039 Well she's plenty seaworthy now, they take out into the bay every year with a big ceremony, she can even sail under her own power. You're right though, I would not want to take her across the Atlantic.
French saved us then we saved them. Lots of love from our side of the pond :D
Simo, 90% where did you pluck that figure from? REad a up on your British navel terminology, I assure you, not much of it is Dutch. EDucate us and give us a few more - 90% is a big number.
At least the french and Americans weren’t as bad as the Russians and Japanese.
@@mrmurphypiers1241 lol, this stereotype
@@pugswillfly3211 ?
Also Augustus has a point, rape cases happen all the time during war. You probably can’t name a country who isn’t guilty of rape. And France was occupied by Germany so to blame the allies for destruction of war is a bit silly.
French navy defeated the British navy in front of Virginia, which allowed Washington (also supported by french troops) to defeat the redcoats on land...and a few years later, when France was at war with England ans asked the US for support, the US delayed any help or decision until the war was over...
At 1:15 French ground troops did not just play a major role at the Battle of Yorktown. The battle was fought MAINLY by French troops, with the Americans providing support, not the other way around. But of course, American history books won't tell you that.
At least they are giving the French some credit, which is not to be taken granted in American history telling x)
Not to say that without the french, the american revolution would have been crushed.
That's pretty true. I'm pretty sure the Americans were probably tired of starving with no pay so just let the baguette boi’s do the work.
@@TOFKAS01 Maybe the revolution would have been only postponed... or maybe the colonies would have become another Canada... Who knows ?
In any case, the Brits were just too greedy, as always...
@@davidvincent380 Nope, they just colected taxes like every gouvernment. Its relatively likely that the 13 colonies would be now today a part of the Commonwealth of nations. But then the whole history of the 20th century would have been different.
Thank you for putting this on RUclips.
One of the most important ships from U.S. history and its french...
I'm so glad to now live knowing that piece is sailing once more. Absolutely stunning designs...the BEST era for ships.
She is beautiful !! As are all the the other Replicas being made these days.
This is what a real ship looks like. Beautiful, sexy, elegant, Intimidating, strong, and Most importantly, Made with the hands of true craftsmanship.
It's Awesome to see these beautiful ships being build once again, and just as they were in their time.
God bless all who sail on her and bring them all great joy and success in life.
This ship was built and is berthed in my local town, Rochette France...we see her often going in and out of the Charente estuary...quite an accomplishment!
Long live French-U.S. friendship!
However it costed the French aristocracy its very own existence for being the main cause of bankruptcy that had triggered the Revolution (according to a substantial number of historians)..
+Vincent Pescus spot on Vincent, a 'feudal' tax system that excluded the nobility and the church placed the total weight of raising revenue on the French 'working class.' Several years of poor harvests prior to 1789 led to widespread famine and directly to revolt and revolution.
French have sale their land on American continent... so why help UK which is the eternal ennemy of French ?
Better help young USA against their ennemy
Tagada excuse me, but, what year are you living in?
God bless Marquis De Lafayette's famous French frigate of his arrival for his quest into the American Revolutionary War of Independence. Vice La France! 🇫🇷🗼❤🇺🇸🗽🌈
I've had the privilege to sail everything from small fishing boats to destroyers but never a ship like that. I'd consider it an honor to sail it across the Atlantic.
Back in the day when ships were things of dreams, transporting people wanting to settle the new world and all its opportunities. We often forget that these ships made the world what it is today strengthening trade and countries connections to each other, the ships of old really are magical and I love that these people are bringing the old styles and building techniques that people use to have. Thank the French,British and other nation too build such wonderful ships.
5:00
Weird way of explaining it. To my knowledge the Royal Navy had a tradition of creating plans for all the ships they captured, purchased, or otherwise acquired, and luckily the archives have been more or less completely preserved until today. So the National Maritime Museum has an enormous number of ships plans from the UK and all the enemies she fought against.
It is a fact that British navy held the French warship for the bests of their times.
Even admiral Nelson said that the best navy would have been French ships manned by british crews.
Beautiful ship, in looks and in the cause of liberty! We Americans are also thankful to the French for our Lady Liberty!
Greatness... may we never forget or lose our ability to reproduce and sail such magnificent ships.
you will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow
I'd like to plough through Hermione's south seas...
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Nice pfp
Fantastic looking ship. And it’s interesting how they say it would’ve been easier to make these ships 250 years ago as opposed to now.
At the time, the original Hermione was built in less than a year. It took 17 years to build the replica, starting with research in the archives. The team turned to the British archives. The Brits who at the time had captured the Concorde, Hermione's sister ship, and still had her plans, then looking for wood, it was necessary to find 1,160 cubic meters of oak (from the Perche forest, former province North East of Rochefort), the best marine wood, to complete the Hermione, the ropes were made in the old tradition, soaked in tar to prevent rotting, etc. The only difference from the original was the equipment of an engine, a generator (obligatory for safety reasons), and toilets. And finally, to learn how to sail this beauty.
@@francinesicard464 add on top of it that back then the state was paying to build the ships, that hundreds of people were working at one time on the ships as opposed to the Hermione which was built by the association’s volunteers with usually no more than 10-20 people working on it on a day, that they didn’t work on it every day and that it was paid for by donations and the price of the visitors’ tickets to see it’s construction.
I've seen two Hermione's so far and both are beautiful.
Uh! What's that at 4:14 in the rear of the ship?
Propulsion?
Nope.
Hi,
Yes, it is an obligation to dock in a modern harbor ; you can't dock with sails. It's international rules for navigation.
It's illegal to dock in a modern harbor with sails
secret french weapon of the 1700s !
I'll call elon musk. He's got some bigger thrusters.. would make her fly over the pond!
The Royal Navy at the time were very fond of well built French ships and went out of their way to aquire them:)
I visited the Hermione while she was tied up at Long Wharf here in Boston. I sailed on the tall ship HMS ROSE for six months in 1997.
As a human being, this is an incredible achievement and really brings history to life
What a beautiful ship!
I photographed two similar ships in Saint Malo when I visited in 2016. A memorable experience.
Wow, she's beautiful. So much more elegant than today's ships.
I was a deckhand on the tall ship Clipper City. We sailed Alongside Le’Hermiond on the 4th of July Flotilla. Sick experience
Ce petit documentaire montre les plus belles images de l'hermionne sous toute ses voiles..Et on le doit a nos plus terribles ennemis de l'époque.
Les anglais ont également un beau musée maritime a greenwish et surtout à Hartlepool Porsmouth , mais rien qui navigue comme notre frégate.
Dommage qu'on ne puisse pas voir le cutty starck , le warrior, et le hms victory faire des apparitions en mer.
Why is she wearing the Flag of Revolutionary France and not the King's Colors? She would have been part of the French Royal Navy, back then.
Will forever respect the french for there efforts during the revolutionary war, as well as the statue of liberty!
I've seen the ship being built and it was very impressive
This looks like fun and should be done more often
30,000,000 dollars very well spent. I would live on the ship the rest of my days.
just remember America that if it wasn't for the french you'd still be british
@mcnet and they would have been beaten by themselves no worries
Beautiful little frigate ... 32 canons/fifth rate ... fast and nimble.
Edward Kenway might have some eye to this magnificent ship ; )
Nah, the jackdaw is good enough. Haha
@@markyboy3067 The Jackdaw alone can sink a level 60 man o war
We should make more working ships like this - just for the sake of it's intricacies so that we do not lose the knowledge of rigging and building and operations.
Oh shite, watch out americans, they want Lousiana back (and I mean the Colony not the State)!
Nah we'll be fair and buy it back for the price we sold it :P
Let them try to get past all the drug addicts, hicks, and gators
8-Bit Worldwonder yes we get what you meant.
8-Bit Worldwonder No takebacks allowed
haha Thibaud, nice one ^^ truly such a shame we sold it
Fantastic! I think it an incredible endevour to even attempt to build this ship, let alone complete it and sail it. Kudos!
Nothing like scurvy, salt pork and hard tack.
When 1800s French Warship still looks more attractive than Morden day Warships…. Let’s that sinks in how unstylish we had become.
What a beautifull ship. Ships remember me that this world is not only cruel.
Timo van Aalst that’s a warship man so it should remember you the word cruel
Correction: The resurrection of a beautiful long lost ship in a much more peaceful world than before. (Give or take the small conflicts, compared to the major conflicts and calamities of ages past.)
Imagine taking a cruise on your new speedboat you just bought and then you find A BIG HUGE SHIP THAT IS FROM THE 1700 - 1800's.
Beautiful ship from a proud nation. Yes I am. British, no I am not being sarcastic.
I wish that we had something similar. HMS Victory is far too precious to the country and HMS Warrior is basically the size of an aircraft carrier.
That Warrior is as long as a aircraftcarrier is not really correct. (HMS Warrior is 127m and the Queen Elizabeth class aircraftcarrier is 280m long.)
Well the previous illustrious class carriers were only 200m or so, so I get his point.
What a gorgeous ship!
She's beautiful!
Yeah, a real beauty! The Frenchmen loved and still love fast ships . . .
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Provocateur I can't tell if this a joke, b/c the first part seemed to be, but the last bit was a bit more questionable.
Finnish Guy Don't say that. Your just stopping to their level. Just shut them down with facts.
There was a time when flamboyant beauty was not at odds with utility and design.
Watch as they sneak into New Orleans while no one is watching.
They sure go well when the wind is abeam. It is a beautiful boat. At the time (late 1700s) the French had started to take their navy seriously while the Dutch and English were not running at their prime. The French trained a corps of Navy men who learned naval tactics and they created a pride in uniform. This ship was nimble because it was the next generation of design.
Imagine being in the ocean, middle of nowhere and spotting this ship coming at you
[ epic Pirates of the Carribean music playing in the distance ]
And here's me wondering how she would look on a radar-screen showing raw data.
lol
It would be nice to have a replica of HMS Victory put on the waves, then she could dance with Hermione and it would be like beauty and the beast.
How awesome is this! When I have plenty of money once I'll build myself such a ship too!!!
i think its just great. Even the building of the ship. I think Its very healthy as a society to revise old building techniques. Even though the knowledge is outdated. You'll never know where it'll be needed.
Fantastic ship.
Ironically, the french révolution saved the brits, cos the superb french marine build by King Louis XVI was dismantled by the revolutionaries and the good royalist officers took refuge with other kings!
How on earth do people find these opportunities? I'd give near anything to spend a few months working my tail off on a ship like that. In a heartbeat.
There are volumes of information to learn about tall ships . All the thousands of parts
Is mind boggling. Making them work in yunison is short of a miracle... awsome to behold..
Beautiful ship she is.
Ice Daemon she is
yeah it's pretty obvious she was forgotten or more likely ''ignored'' and that's because that truth hurts, americans prefers to be friends with brits than french. Most pop culture tends to do what we call french-bashing
French build the best ships while British trained the best sailor.
fadly A. Rahman nowadays best sailors are french and a lot of peoples in the world are building good ships
not really French ship were fast, British strong.
but the real difference was the standardisation and logistics.
the brits had a clear advantage, France had to maintain a strong land military at the same time
fadly A. Rahman
John Paul Jones was indeed a great British sailor
It depends how the ships were built. The French and British built good ships, along with the Spanish. The French built for speed and manoeuvrability. The British built large powerful vessels, but they were slow and lumbering. Each side’s ships paid contributions towards their own country. The Spanish had their own specifics, the Dutch did, the French did, the British did and the US did. Each to their own
And the Spanish built the best
I remember the first piece of wood in this project 15 years ago. I never beleaved it would be done one day.
This is literally the coolest thing I have seen in I don't know how long. Only thing that would make it better is if it were Queen Anne's Revenge.
Part of that wreck has been found is being raised in bits and pieces. Maybe someone will rebuild it like this.
Anyone else think ships from the 1700's are easily 1000x cooler than modern ships
Now I want a battle between the Shtandart, Gothenburg, the HMS Rose/Surprise, USS Constitution and the Hermione!
+Jisk van der Veen Aye! I would love to see the Connie sail again.
Will she?
Jisk van der Veen I think so; they're still bothering to replace all of her copper plating, and her present state in drydock isn't supposed to be permanent.
Jay Rohwer Let's hope she won't end up as the Victory; A beautiful vessel but a shame that she can't float anymore.
you forgot the man o war it will end them all
That ship is amazing every one who donated was amazing
Sailing ships were engineering marvels.
What instrument is that at the beginning and I always hear it when I watch things with these old ships, is it the fife flute or the tin whistle I’ve heard both mentioned before or is it both were used?
This needs to be taught in American schools. FRANCE gave AMERICA its INDEPENDENCE!
These ships are very seaworthy IF handled and sailed properly... Im glade we still kno how to build them in the old way.... But ship handling has sliped in my vew... Crews that sail large square rigged ships should be trained on one for at least a year.... Sail north Atlantic and demonstrate your abiliy underway....
the youngs american and french will can make a training on this ship ! it would be a good experience for the both
Sorry, im not a proffessional in those Things, but was the Paint Blue and Gold not originally the Paint of the Royal Navy ???
Why have a French Warship a Blue/Gold Paint ??
Red, blue and ocher yellow(its not gold) were the original colors of the Hermione of 1793 (Revolutionnary time), who which sank off the Croisic (Loire-Atlantique). The blue was using for the high dignitary only, because it was expansive and not much discreet.
-"Imagine how this was, Will... no engines, no computers, .... just the wind, the ocean, and the stars to guide you."
-"Bad food, brutal discipline..... no women.... "
imagine going around the world
And in this case: "Everybody around you only speaking French...without the presence of the universal translator. "
Guy at the end looks very flamboyant.
Without the French fleet there would have been no victory at Yorktown. The French gave their lives to the American cause or at least to beat the British.
It is certain that it was an important effort for the king of France because for his colonies like Quebec he did not do it. Warships cost a fortune and the English completely dominated Channel and the Atlantic. France was never as good as the English at sea because it was often at war in Europe. for the English dominating the sea was vital.
British colonies:
Hey I've seen this one, it's a classic
The French, British, Spanish, and Dutch made some beautiful ships
Just love these tall ships. Really cool.
you should also check out the "Constitution", an American wooden frigate that still is technically in the navy today, and is still maintained by a crew and dockworkers
Seems like a good idea to me. We should remember history as it happened. If I were younger I might even be willing to sign up for mission like that. Sounds like it was quite an adventure!
Awesome ship! Thanks for sharing.
I’m sure George Washington gave twenty points to Griffindore when he saw it
Somebody get L'Hermione and HMS Surprise at sea at the same time for a replica battle. Are USS Constitution and HMS Temeraire sea-worthy too? HMS Victory definitely not. No longer has her upper masts. There was a HMS Hermione in the Royal Navy in this period; worse mutiny in our history. HMS Surprise captured her back from the Spaniards.
imagine a sail ship more expensive than the titanic...
The titanics cost adjusted for inflation would be around 140 million USD. Thats actually more than this sail ship^^
Very impressive, I sure would love to take place in the crew too.
I think he speed really comes from that smooth and narrow hull design! It really is quite impressive eh?
the hull of the ship works almost like an airplane wing, she stats off narrow in the front and does some wonky curves in the back. cut the ship in half an look at old wing designs for planes theirs some similarity between them although feint but still present.
Some Dutch influences there, the classic V design at the end
Jisk van der Veen Aye, tapering the stern is a classic design. The Dutch were really magnificent and influential shipbuilders. Same to the French too, with their pioneering of the frigate. Though of course, I recall a saying that goes "The French are good at building ships, and the British are great at capturing them". :P
Aye!! I did a big study on Dutch shipwrights; remarkable, just remarkable how they build without any drawings!
French indeed did a good thing in building ships, but in the 17th century they ordered theirs at our shipyards (just a few, but very large ones). French however developed these large wooden vessels in vessels of speed (Hermione is a late 18th century example). The British knew how to handle them best ;)
Yeah, she's bluff above the water and sharp below. Gives the hull a finer entry and a longer run as she goes aft. That's why she's so fast. Heavy, but fast despite it.
What an amazing documentary very well done no doubt.
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