Americanul reacționează cum funcționează un cuirasat cu vele din secolul al XVIII-lea

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1. Sadly no grass to be commented on this episode, thus we move on

2. Aarg!

3. I think he would find Drachinifels video on Germans Z plan interesting he tells you what the Germans wanted to build and whether the ships would have been useful or not. He also does a great video on HMAS Sydney which was Australia's most famous warship whose story isn't very well known outside of Australia.

4. I would love African content as well

5. Just to let you know I was watching one of Mark Masterson's vid's, (Mark from the States). He's had a copyright challenge from Rick Steves organisation and had to remove his reactions. I mention this only so you can: 'Be prepared.'

6. This is what you have been waiting for.

7. "Gallons"… REM': this likely refers to UK gallons, each of 8 pints. Not to US gallons which are of just 6 pints apiece.

8. No their main jobs were surgeon carpenter etc. Designated skills.

9. Carpenters and surgeons etc. almost always had "mates" as helpers. Most often only the Captain's mates were officers of high breeding.

10. Ballast was a very, very old feature of wooden ships, even before sails. Even seasoned wood is significantly less dense than water; more so for seawater. Any vessel of a size where the cargo and crew weren't sufficient to stabilise would have had rocks placed below the waterline rihht back to Roman and Greek triremes.

    With rudder technology it was again a function of ship size. Early 18th century warships didn't have a ship's wheel but were steered by a whipstaff; a vertical lever attached to the tiller which would pass through slots in the deck to the steering point. As ships grew larger the mechanical advantage a lever provided was not longer enough for easy steering, so ropes and pulleys were used to further increase ease of movement.

    When it comes to sailing rigs, the hull will have a center of mass and the sails a center of force. Jibs and the driver help to move the center of force in front or behind the center of mass to aid turning. It's perfectly possible to maneuver such a ship without a rudder.

    As to size of sails, yes there are diminishing returns as hull drag increases with speed. Ship hulls have a theoritical maximum speed which is a function of length and the length/breadth ratio. You also have to factor in the strength of the rigging needed to support larger sails. A ship like Victory would have many miles of rigging just to stop the masts ripping out of the keel the instant the sails were set. As human understanding of all this increased, you see a move towards longer, thinner hulls with more and lighter yards, culminating in the gorgeous tea clippers of the mid 19th century like the Cutty Sark preserved in London.

    Angling the yards could be used to turn the ship, but the main purpose on a square rigger is efficiency. To get the best work out of that type of sail it wants to be perpendicular to the wind direction. That might be different to the direction you want to go, in which case the sail power is transferred to the hull, and the hull will mainly want to take the path of least resistance, which is forward where its water profile is narrowest. In order to sail upwind, square-riggers had to compromise on efficiency by angling the yards to the wind. This limitation is what lead to established voyages using "trade winds" to mimimise lost efficiency and hence time.

11. HA, I was gonna recommend this video yesterday LOL!!!!!!!

12. the small boats were moved by hand mate.

13. Measuring 80 feet at its foot, 54 feet at the head and 55 feet deep, the 3,618 square feet square sail weighs 360kg and was sewn in 1803 at the Royal Navy yard at Chatham in Kent. On 6 January 1806 the sail was taken off HMS Victory this was just one sail.

14. A " Store" doesn't mean the same thing in the UK as in America ! Your "store" is a shop. In the UK a store to us is a store room , to keep things in .
    FORCASTLE usually pronounced FOLKSAL.

15. Hey Connor. 👋 I have watched countless videos alongside you on your channel, spanning a year at least. I am English and I so appreciate your obvious fascination with my home country. The ship featured in today's video is HMS Victory, under (my personal hero) Lord Admiral Nelson's personal command during his celebrated battle victories of the day. But you knew that, of course. Just one thing in today's video struck me as odd that you (and presumably Americans in general) didn't know. The long pole (or "rod") with one padded end, used to "ram" home and compact the charge, wad and iron ball or shot was, and is still today, known as a RAMROD. There is no such word as "rammer" as used by the narrator. Hammer? Jammer? Scammer, spammer? All are real words. But not rammer. Don't sweat it though, mate. A brief, formal, written, and then read-aloud, acknowledgement in your next post will be fine 🙂 👍

16. Another difference between English and American English is the word `rocks.`
    In English this would be shingle or gravel , rocks in English are lumps of stone ,probably at least fist-sized.
    I`m not suggesting that large pieces were not used, although shingle would be easier to shift if the ballast needed to be moved

17. A few of the things you asked about during this video. First thing to remember, people back then may not have known all we know today, but they were just as intelligent as we are, "Trial and error" never applied to some things, no ship was ever blown up because no-one knew to keep fire and sparks away from gunpowder! Second, why didn't they just keep adding more and more sails? two main reasons, it took hundreds of men to handle those which they had, you couldn't have a crew big enough for any more, and even if you could, if the pressure of the wind on the sails exceeds the weight of the ballast that the ship carries, the ship capsizes instantly! As it was when a ship had studding sails set, any change in wind speed or direction meant that they had to be removed extremely quickly before disaster struck!

18. No surgeons were full time, so were carpenters.

19. Chains were switched to when ships got heavier, because at that point, the chain is more of an anchor than the anchor itself. It’s the weight of the chain that holds the ship still. So it was just when ships got bigger.

20. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Watch this movie now! It will answer many of your questions

21. God that was a boring video lol Watched it just because I love ya 😆

22. Probably lots of differnet pumps then. Not just archamedies screw, possibly things like bellows that blow fires or a set of pulleys with buckets on a rope.

23. An interesting video of choice, i just took a walk around the inside of the HMS victory last week when visiting portsmouth ^^ good timing. Fun fact the tallest person on board the victory was a carpenter who was 6ft 7" and worked in one of the most cramped areas, my friend on visit spent most of his time on that deck kneeling whenever we stopped walking and he is just over 6ft 1"

24. Hey, I see you like Battleships, you must check "Naval Legends", a great serie of video about it with great CG model and description:
    "Naval Legends: USS Iowa"
    "Naval Legends: Yamato, the biggest battleship evermade"

25. The Portsmouth dockyards is a fun visit, I'm 5'4 and I felt tall ..an experience worth visiting

26. The rear sail would not assist the rudder or to turn the ship however to perform a tight turn the yard arms on the three mast could be turned to assist, the foremast (front or first mast) would be turned in he direction of the turn, the mainmast (middle) would remain as it was and the mizzenmast (rear mast) would turn away from the direction of the turn to push the rear of the ship out

27. Try a watch the find of the MARY ROSE I think it was under water for 300 years

28. 30:10 – the use of "nippers" to secure the messenger rope to the anchor cable was usually performed by the ship's boys, which is the likely origin of children being called "nippers" in British slang to this day. The warrant officers aboard ship (surgeon, carpenter, gunner, boatswain, etc) each had "mates" to assist them, and to be a warrant officer's mate was effectively to be his apprentice, learning the trade and preparing to step into his role if he was killed. Most would have had some prior experience or aptitude for the work; surgeons were obviously the most specialised role, and it wasn't an uncommon career path for intelligent men from humble backgrounds to get a basic grammar-school education, study Medicine at university for sufficient time to pass an examination by the Company of Surgeons (no degree was required), then enter the Royal Navy as a surgeon's mate with an immediate and steady wage. William Beatty, surgeon aboard HMS Victory at Trafalgar, went down that route as an 18-year-old with fairly minimal training, became an acting-surgeon within two years and a fully-warranted ship's surgeon in time for his 22nd birthday.

    That said, not all naval surgeons were ambitious young hotshots, and plenty were simply drunks, debtors or incompetents who'd failed to make a living as physicians ashore. At the Glorious First of June in 1794, the surgeon of HMS Defence, an "amiable man" named James Malcolm, proved incapable (either through squeamishness or professional ineptitude) of amputating limbs. The fact that men like Malcolm were ever employed in the role, and that men like Beatty could rise so quickly, is reflective of how desperate the Navy was for doctors until they began to offer proper incentives to physicians in 1805.

    Sailing master was the other specialised warrant officer role, dealing primarily in navigation, plotting the ship's course and position, etc. They tended to have no difficulty finding mates to deputise them, as they could recruit ordinary foremast hands who had navigational experience as quartermasters or helmsmen, or appoint midshipmen (usually those from lower social ranks) who saw little chance of earning a promotion to lieutenant, and judged becoming a master to be their best chance of career progression.

29. Gawd! I hate it when people say "The" HMS *Name of ship*!
    HMS stands for His (or Her) Majesty's Ship. If you preface that with "The" what you are effectively saying is "The His Majesty's Ship" which is just plain WRONG. Unlike US Navy ships where "The" is appropriate as it means "The United States Ship".
    OK folks? Rant over!

30. Extra sails do not equate to extra speed as some sails would "steal" the wind from others. There is a commonality amongst ships as when you fight, the greater prize is to capture the vessel, not sink it. Over here in Norfolk HMS Gloucester has been found, she sank in 1682. She was commissioned during the rule of Cromwell, when we were a Republic. Will be going to look at the artifacts found, on display at Norwich Castle. Horatio Nelson was a son of Norfolk and I often walk the same streets he did and go in the same pubs he visited. I have sailed out of Great Yarmouth as he did, messed about on Barton Broad where he learnt to sail. He went to sea because he was naughty at school ( when he went) and his mother got her brother to take him on. If you visit the UK you too can visit these things.

31. I have had a tour of HMS Victory twice. The thing that amazed me the most is the fact that there used to be hammocks right next to the guns so sailors could be ready in minutes. Oh and also that everything was geared for action. The only person to have a modicum of luxury was the captain.

32. Those sailors must have had a huge sense of achievement when all the sails were set and the ship was racing across the waves, especially on a sunny day with the white canvas against a blue sky!

33. What I love is the purposefullness of every single feature of this ship. The midshipman's quarters located right next to ship authorities to prevent them getting into mischief, the skylight for the purpose of preventing the cook from messing the stores around, the sick bay is right next to the bogs, etc, naval ships were ingenious in design in every way.

34. Thanks for posting such an informative film.

35. The 'forecastle'is pronounced 'focsle'.

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