The Syracusia: Archimedes' Massive Sailing Ship
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ruclips.net/user/simonwvlogs Hey I’ve been trying to get a message to you at different videos and your different channels. I think if you looked up the U.S.S. Rancocas you would find a great subject for one of your videos. It’s called the battleship in the field and it’s a navy ship mast built in a field in New Jersey along side Jersey turnpike and Rt 295 . I have personal experience as my step father worked here in the middle, late 80’s. I could give you info on the war games in middle of the night, the inside of building. Aegis radar, and Phalanx being designed and tested here.
Simon Whistler trying to get in touch with you about video subject matter you could do. Tired of writing this over and over on different channels. Check out U.S.S. Rancocas. I have inside into
tell me how many channels do you have???
D day 6/6/1944 has to be a Megaproject
Nemi Ships next please.
Syracusia: A functional battleship packed to the gunwales with art, marble and statuary.
WH40K's Imperial Navy: *heavy breathing*
Comment of the day right there
Would love to see him cover some of the stuff from 40k.
Put a giant fuck off statue in front of the ship.
Gets destroyed after the first mission.
How many Servitors, Skitari and Tech-Priests?
Omfg!!!!!! That's epic!!!!
Zeng He's fleet of "Chinese treasure ships" next? The story of their explorations are quite interesting and are great examples of ancient leviathans.
Sounds like quite a cruise liner/battleship hybrid.
"And for those of our patrons either dining on our al fresco deck or simply taking the air...if you look to your right, you might notice that we are currently assaulting the island of Malta."
"Passengers interested in looting please queue up on the boarding platform at 0900."
lol
Omg just got a total Douglas Adam’s vibe of this comment, pure restaurant at the end of the universe stuff…even read it in my head in the BBC narrator voice. Well done totally enjoyed your comment
@@andyginterblues2961 that would have been Medieval Times on steroids
Here is more historical maritime megaprojects that deserve an episode:
- Ming treasure voyages (largest fleet in the world at the time)
- Vasa (e.g. Gustavus Adolphus biggest blunder) the one of the biggest and most powerful ships of the era that sunk on its maiden voyage due to piss poor engineering.
- Wyoming (schooner)the largest wooden ship ever built sunk due to poor engineering.
Incorrect about Vasa.
@@Oddball5.0 nope..however its has been less spoken of but would been a the time she was put to sea larges flag ship(just before line ship came)
@@billdehappy1 She was the most powerful ship, yes.
It is incorrect, however, that the ship sank due to "piss poor engineering." There was no engineering as we conceive it today. The ship was built using traditional methods, and was not automatically doomed to be a failure. With better loading, the ship could have had a successful career.
Fortunately for us, she didn't.
@@Oddball5.0 it was a desgin fault as to high and to thin for the amount of guns which they knew before setting her to sea but couldent do anything about hench it was later decied it was a act of gods will and blame went to the ships master(which were long decead)...
although i wouldent say it was the kings biggest blunder(lutzen was) as for the record...
and dont worrie swedish navy aint really famous for winning since vikings haha thats why they needed us nomads for cavalery too haha
@@billdehappy1 Close. Yes it was known to be unstable in the configuration at the time of sailing. With proper loading, however, it could have been fine. My point is simply that it was not automatically doomed to failure as is often written (not by you, I know).
It was actually the original shipwright who was blamed. He died in1627, the year before the sinking. Inconvenient for him, but useful to those looking for a scapegoat.
Cheers!
Is there anything that Archimedes wasn't involved in? He was a genius like no other!
Leonardo da Vinci beg to differ. HE was a genius like no other
@@kettelbe Because he had giants of ancient times whom shoulders he stood on
@@kettelbe Da Vinci did not contribute to science nearly as much as Archimedes. He was an artist, and he did conceptualize of inventions, but n ever MADE them. In fact he "came up" with solar power but Archimedes had MADE the first solar powered device that is STILL IN USE!!!!
Learn you fucking facts mate.
Lead sheet was used as a protection against ship worm, in much the same way as copper was used in later years
And copper was misconstrued as being primarily about ramming, too.
Aye!
ya that wouldn't have done much against bronze or iron prowed warships
I think he said it a bit backwards....
Horse hair and pitch would have made something like a felt pad /cushion and the lead sheets would be more useful as 'anti-biofouling' measures.... lead being pretty much..
This was an exceptional video. I had never heard of this ship before! And I consider myself a history buff. A tip of the hat to Simon & Team.
Archemedes was so clever that he invented the archemedes screw 200 years before he was born.
Wicked Smaht
And when Chuck Norris was born that screw staitened out in fear.
That legend.
He was just that good
Gotta hand him some credit for that then
There are a few stories associated with this ship. One was that at a party a fairly drunk Archimedes proclaimed, "Give me a lever long enough and a place to put it and I can move the world." Heiron said, "Yeah, prove it. Launch my ship." Another story of this pair is that Heiron had commissioned a jeweler to make him a new gold crown. The jeweler was supposed to return the left over gold and be paid in much more common silver. Rumours reached Heiron that the jeweler has allowed the gold with a base metal (probably copper) and pocketed the change. Heiron asked Archimedes to prove his crown was pure gold or not. Some time latter Archimedes, who loved good food and good wine and it showed, got into a public bath and when he over flowed had a moment of insight about the principle of buoyancy. He then ran back home naked screaming, "Eureka" or I have it. The crown and an equal weight of water were submerged and when the crown displaced more water than the gold Archimedes proved the crown was not real gold. Less mentioned is that the jeweler was executed.
Eureka - Diogenes
The Second Punic War started when the King of Carthage asked Caesar's wife to show him her punic heir.
AM I RIGHT PETER!?!
Nice
@@SkunkApe407 NOT YOU ETA, PETER!
Idk, this theory seems kinda fuzzy.
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"Cuz this shit is crazy"
I see blaze spreading out into his other channels!
Was expecting some OGBB!
1:50 - Chapter 1 - The original titanic
3:15 - Chapter 2 - Syracuse
4:55 - Chapter 3 - The 1st punic war
6:05 - Mid roll ads
7:15 - Chapter 4 - The ship
10:50 - Chapter 5 - Archimedes screw
11:35 - Chapter 6 - The greatest gift
It's amazing they gave the ship size in meters but cargo in some obsolete system...
That would be an amazing ship wreck to discover and explore.
To give a modern idea of the size of this wooden vessel it would be equivalent to HMS Victory in Pirates of the Carrabian or 2 Black Pearls.
So, really no example then. Thanks 👍
Presumably that's the same size as actual HMS victory? Not being a dick. Just curious as to whether or not they made it bigger for the film.
Cool. Glad you "modernized" that but how many USS Enterprises from Star Trek would that be to "futurize" it?
HMS Victory didn't appear in Pirates of the Caribbean, but I believe the original poster was referring to the fictional HMS Dauntless from the movie, which as portrayed was a 100 gun first rate ship-of-the-line, so analogous to the Victory. Or, perhaps, the equally fictional East India Co 110 gun line-of-battle ship, HMS Endeavor, from the 3rd PoTC movie.
@@JamesFromTexas Ahh, but which Enterprise? I might need a little help with Weight displacement equivalency for space too, lol.
It is thought that out there in the land of antiquity was a warship so large that could never possibly fight. A ship dubbed “the super carrier of antiquity.” If your average Greek Trireme is a 3, and your Roman Quinquireme is a 5, the ship I speak of would be a 40. It’s called the Tessarakonteres. A video on it would be great.
I can't believe the internet is so pedantic that Simon needs to explain himself on pronounciations. Hell I'd just let everyone bitch and argue in comments all they want = more interaction for the YT algorithm gods.
Agreed! It's very annoying that someone always has something to bitch about or scrutinize on RUclips....but in the long run your just helping Simon out! lol
@@joeyr7294 Bitching on RUclips about people who bitch on RUclips is quite ironic.
@@--_--IMP--_-- lmao very true 🍻
Have you been on the internet long?
@@--_--IMP--_-- thank you, someone had to point that put lol
The Syracusia was in the show Primal in Episode 7
I'm here from that
not sure if you've covered this on your other channels, but a cool mega project you could cover is Operation Paperclip
Checkout Mark Felton's channel
Sweet! I absolutely love all these videos from all the different channels he has. Dude must drink a few pots worth of coffee just to keep up with all the different Channels he has!!
We *heart* Simon! www.reddit.com/r/SimonWhistler/
Little white pills
Na, no coffee....
Sacks and sacks of cocaine.
Giant ship! Ptolemy III, Egypt...wow, I just woke up from a nap and you sent me incredible information for my novel! Thanks...great video.
Hi John from WI. Thanks again for another great program !
Anyone else notice the intro (after 2:30) sounds like he could be talking about the USS Enterprise-D?
1:15 The 'dress' museum? Should off course be the 'Drents' museum!
Should of course, you mean. If you're going to correct someone make sure your correction is spelled and grammatically correct.
This is cool because there is now a new cruis ship that is like twice the size of them one he mentions in the beginning of this video. It’s crazy to think cruise ships always get bigger and bigger every few years I wonder how big the biggest cruise ship is going to be in like 30 years they’re going to have a ship so big that it’s going to be unbelievable.
Big fan of Biographics, this man is doing Gods work on RUclipss
Thank u! one of most complete video about Syracusia i ve seen on RUclips
Love these stories from the ancient world!
That segue into the ad was so perfect. Well done, Simon.
That ship probably didn't last long. Given the technology of the era, it probably needed near-constant leak monitoring. It was likely parked in Alexandria, quickly flooded from leaks, and then swiftly dismantled for materials. It's not surprising that it doesn't appear again in history.
I agree. I think it probably never even set sail - or was put to oars. Just the wind alone would have made such a vessel uncontrollable, given the amount of sail and mast structure required to keep it on any given coarse. The hull and super structure would have created too much drift unless it had a keel of some 30feet depth and possibly up to 100 feet long. Probably more likely a floating casino or hotel complex. ; )
Thank you
Proposals for future Megaprojects Episodes... The Roman Nemi Ships...the Dienststelle Mariental(worlds largest Nuclear Shelter)
The Peloponnesian war lasted 27 years. I don‘t know what the longest war of antiquity was, but this fact alone makes it impossible for the 1st Punic war to have been the longest in antiquity
I'm from Syracuse NY! Lol
What about doing floating american radar stations? A bit boaty, a bit shooty and it's bound to cost a fortune.
This man right here knows how to sell a RUclips Video!
Not an bad description of Australia either.
How on earth did you manage to squeeze out an entire 14 min video with only a single visual of the Syracusia??? Impressive!
It's stuff like this, I'd like to see rendered in Full VR! It would make a cool attraction!
...." Give me a lever long enough, and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world"....
Idk man Syracuse has basketball and Hoffman hotdogs,so there’s that .
If I may, ideas for future videos: Missiles!
Ship based.......
Various iterations of the standard missile
Harpoon Missile
Tomahawk Missile
Navel strike missile
Berlin airport BER next?
I'm surprised you haven't done a video on the Ming Dynasty Treasure Ships on one of your several channels. Built around 1400 they were absolutely massive for the time. Accounts vary but they were somewhere between 250 to 500ft long. They sailed south from China, trading and giving gifts and made it at least all the way to the east coast of Africa.
Possibly dismantled for the resources. Wood was fairly scarce in Egypt
....its strange to see the different levels of I guess.... formality, in which Simon expresses himself. This is like Middle formal, geographical is buttoned up formal. Then you have business blaze, which is Simon, wrap it up, it's time for some drinks.🖐✌👍
Still waiting for the video on the Essex Class Carriers lol 😁😁😁
Just to clarify, ROme never controlled all of Italy. Strategic ports and roads yes but there were several inland citystates that they never bothered with conquering and which remained independent.
True- they had however organized it into a complicated confederation of Rome, its territories, Roman colonia, and Socii- the allied cities that fought Rome in the Social War to be more integrated and have more rights and, defeated, were granted things like the citizenship of Rome. By the time of the Punic Wars everything south of the Rubicon, the Roman definition of Italy, was part of it and the 1st c BC Social War made it much more integrated. Hence the Romans idea of treating "Italy" as a concept in law as far as when and where a general could take his provincial army. Augustus further altered the constitution of the peninsula but it remained unique, distinct from the provinces, which had been more explicitly conquest lands and of which Sicily had been the first. But there are two caveats:
1. Even in the provinces the Roman governors and their staffs administered complicated arrangements that included allied cities with their own governments some of whose leaders were rewarded with Roman citizenship.
2. Eventually in the middle empire even Italy was organized into the provincial/diocesan administrations.
After specifying all of the features upon it, I'm sure the chief builder said "Whatever floats your boat"... :P
Maureen will try Syracuse model ship to find sightings at acknowledgement
Awesome boats! Yes....
I think you need to create a video on the long-lost great Chinese Treasure fleet. That was an ancient mega project.
That would be interesting, They had some massive ships, and they likely sailed well with the junk rigging.
“Moreover, I am of the opinion that Carthage should be destroyed”
Idea / question : How do ancient battle strategy is relevant on modern battlefield??
Has anyone ever reconstructed those giant boat oars. Given there weight and the leverage ratio it feels improbable that a human could work one or put any power into one for even one stroke let alone a sea voyage.
It's called a lever, one of the simple machines. Due to the placement the amount of energy required to move the hull is low enough for a person to move.
@@newon2014 Yes I know it is a lever hence my use of the word lever-age. Its not like it is a ratio that magnifies the effort put in by the oarsman to wield what look like incredibly heavy oars.
It is a good ratio to use manageable oars to make a manageable boat go fast.
Probably just another of inaccuracies mentioned about the drawing of the ship.
I think Alexandria was notorious for ships sinking in their harbor so maybe the ship sank there, got salvaged and wiped from history by a embarrassed ruler.
A fun Megaproject video might be the VC Summer Nuclear Power plant debacle. a $2 billion project that balooned to $9 billion and still only got to about 30% completion before it was cancelled. The mismanagement, corruption, and lack of building knowledge due to America's decay of nuclear ambition all contributed to this particular disaster that ruined Westinghouse.
9:50 "..'first use of proactive anti-fouling technology."
I doubt that. Along with the flora and fauna that passively attaches itself to a ships bottom, a mollusk called ship-worm, Teredo navalis, would take up residence within the hull planks by using it's shell as a drill bit, working it's way deeper into the timber as it grows up to a foot (.3 meters) in length. Having thousands of holes drilled in the bottom of a ship has a bad effect on the vessels sea-going abilities.
The stuff growing on the outside below the water-line affects a ships performance. Having hull planks weakened and leaking due to thousands of holes drilled into them will sink the ship.
One source I've read mentions that during the Bronze Age, sea-going ship's bottoms would be covered with thin sheets of lead. The Greeks coated their triremes with pine tar or asphalt from the Dead Sea. During the 18th and 19th centuries copper plate would be nailed to ship bottoms, discouraging the passive growth and, most important, prevent ship-worm attachment.
Funny, looked up "Teredo" to check facts and all that comes up with Google or Wikipedia is about a computer program that "tunnels." Had to use "shipworm" as the search term.
Thanks Simon Whistler and those that help put these videos together. It's a great service, and occasionally being wrong about details adds to the experience of watching.
Should do the silver spade or the captain shovels...or maybe the big muskie dragline ?
If you like famous ships? What about a video about the SRN4 the biggest and best civilian Hovercraft.??
Good thing that that war was not pun-ic. Imagine dads in a competetive joke-off, that would be absolutely hilarious... 🤪😁😁😁
We NEED more videos, you need at least 3 more channels that post videos at least 3 times a week
We are one people separated by a common language. Let the confusion begin.
Wouldn't that be an awesome archaeological find!
Someone below cited the Venice Arsenal, which would be a good topic by itself. Also Venice as a whole, from its foundations, if you're inclined to do a longer scope topic. Amazing use of a marshy island in a lagoon and still an engineering challenge today.
I'm interested in ports and harbours in terms of their evolution in size, capacity, docking techniques from the days of beaching galleys to the great tidal docks to the container ports of today. There's not a lot looking at them as an evolving phenomenon. Maybe there's something there- ancient versus early modern vs today? British Royal Dockyards used as an example through the centuries? Could be material there.
Have you already done Diocletian's Palace somewhere? I've seen many illustrations but if there's information on its scale and internal layout that could be interesting. The pictures always show huge barracks and temple but I've no idea how much was the emperor's space.
The history of the Palatine Hill in Rome, from the republic's version of Belgravia to giant palace complex.
I've pulled 800+lb boulders out of the ground in my backyard all by myself. Couches, major appliances, play structures. Thank you, Archimedes. What I want to know is: Did he call it the L-eh-ver or the L-EE-ver?
Great video! Please do an episode on the doomed Swedish warship, Vasa!
Ships are launched off slipways. Gangplanks are used to board the ship.
What about the building of the Palmyran empire and it's quick rise and fall?
Literally an ancient Carrack of the colonial era, what a sight it must have been to behold.
They should change the name of Monopoly to Simon Whistler
Nemi Ships next please.
I want someone to build the 'Bolger Super Brick'.
That might've been the best sponsor segue yet. Well done, sir. XD
I wonder if Simon did a portrait of his mother would we call it Whistler's Mother?
I'd get a copyright strike.
could you do a video of the Colorado River Aqueduct?
Maybe make one about the east German wall.
The don’t call it Sigh-Recuse-ia University
Go Orange! 🍊
"In the UK it's Sighra, in the US it's Syra" - Being a Brit I'm all for correcting Americans when they get words wrong, but damn, Simon, I've never, ever, *ever* heard it called Sighracuse
Sounds almost as big as The Irish Rover.
Nice, I suggested this a while ago.
Syracuse idea relay is Maureen didn't know Artemeter from cockpits calling their freighter by idea Arizona
have you done a video about the Swedish ship The Vasa?
speaking of ships, can u make one about the humongous sailing ships (the treasure ships) used by admiral zheng he during his vogage to africa?
Sheathed with lead to prevent the Teredo Navalis
ship worm from eating the ship
Simon, no one can complain about anything you say about this ship because of so little knowledge. After all, the world has been visualizing everything in the ancient world in different, opposing, and often ridiculous ways. How about the Colossus of Rhodes, which would've had to have been ginormously larger than they were capable of casting of bronze in those days---if it had stood astride the harbor entrance. Or the lighthouse at Alexandria, which was also described in equally impossible dimensions. Facts? "We don't need no stinking facts!" Just entertain us, as usual, and ignore the self-styled "experts." Your fans love the way you present things and if not, let 'em bugger off. I find myself LOLIMON all the time (That's Laughing Out Loud In [the] Middle Of [the] Night), which is all _I_ want.
Simon: I'm going with the UK one because that's how I speak.
Americans: *noises of confusion and anger*
/me spouts noises of confusion and anger. I'll SUE! 😁
Love your channel! Forgive me if I’ve overlooked this, but could you do an episode on the Concorde jets?
He has covered this on the channel already
ruclips.net/video/73cwvfhiApw/видео.html
Also the Russian one
ruclips.net/video/9TVT-5tbTus/видео.html
Could you make a video over the Punic wars? A Roman naval war sounds rather interesting
12.18 Leathers? Simon come on now!
Wow, I had never heard of that ship before...
Make a video on the " McBarge" floating McDonald's
You should do the Sears (Willis) tower. Once was the tallest building in the world
Watchu talkin bout Willis?
I had once read the ship was 110 metres long...55 makes more sense and is actually believable!!
That's ... the size of a corvette.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracusia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula%27s_Giant_Ship
The 2nd link is probably what you are refuring too, but notice the pictures are really similar, but detailed a bit diferently
At least it didn't sink on its maiden voyage like the ill fated Vasa.
Can u explain Lockheed martin's legion pod air superiorty upgrade?
What about Caligula’s two yachts?
Could you look into the large ships that were found in an Italian lake?
Please do the Bagger 293 excavator!
Have you done a video on the Nemi ships? Even larger than this was and as luxurious as possible
And in Syracuse ny it is Saracuse.