3D Guide to Britain's Most Famous Warship (2/2)

I hope you enjoy the new video! Special shout to all Patrick O'Brian fans, who will be nodding along sagely to most of this. Thank you to our sponsor War Thunder - play with our link to earn a free & awesome bonus pack with boosters and epic vehicles - playwt.link/epichistorytv War Thunder is a highly detailed and immersive vehicle combat game that features a huge amount of customisable tanks, aircrafts and ships. Thank you to everyone else who helped to make this series, including the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the National Maritime Museum, the estate of Derek Gardner, James Malcolm and Simon Edwards - links in video description. Head over to our Patreon page for production updates and news of what's next! www.patreon.com/EpicHistoryTV

It is truly mind boggling how such a quality production hasn't yet been cemented as the standard for making historical documentaries. Epic History TV leads the way!

I cannot tell you how many years I’ve wanted a series on YouTube exactly like this, absolutely amazing job!

4:51 It's great that we know the names of all of Victory's crew. None of them have been forgotten.

This channel is truly a gold standard in historical documentary. I adore HMS Victory and the Napoleonic Wars, and nowhere else do I get the sense that my intense passion is so equally shared than I do here. Even though I knew much about HMS Victory owing to reading on the subject, this miniseries was a profound joy to watch, interesting and awe-inspiring all-through. Your series on Napoleon's Marshals introduced me to a series of inspirational and deeply interesting characters, many of whom I've come to admire profoundly since learning of. Romanticising the Napoleonic Wars is something I may be very guilty of, but I am filled with emotion at the exploration of these times and the people that forged them. Such pride, inspiration, courage and glory the world so seldom seems to see these days, and yet this era has it in abundance. I do so adore these videos and hope they may long continue. Thank you to all involved. Your work is so deeply appreciated. :)

For all who have and for those who have not seen Master and Commander with Russell Crowe. This documentary on sea life as well as sailing terminology on a British sailing vessel or as they refer to as a ship of the line. Fascinating documentary on what made the HMS Victory and her crew a force to be reckoned with. According to her history, the Victory had seen many battles at sea and at home against the French Navy. She fought in 6 major battles and was 1 of 6, which were the most capable of inflicting severe damage to her opponent. These ships of the line had a complement of 800 plus men, from enlisted to Admiral. Great documentary

Portuguese gun crews of the 15th-16th centuries invented cannon shot skipping as a way to maximize the use of the Caravel as a highly maneuverable sniping platform.

Basically the only videos I watch that I wish were longer.

This and the previous episode was absolutely phenomenal. This is the best series I have ever seen on such sailing warships of the Napoleonic period, by far. It is so so good to have video that is not only thoroughly researched, but also uses both numbers, examples, and illustrations to showcases the ship and life aboard it. Absolutely outstanding work with this one!

27:00 the good old days "The British navy, well manned, well resourced, and backed by a powerful economy"

When I was a child I lived on a farm in the UK. The covered yards we kept the cattle in had a roof made up of wood and clay tiles. That roof was held up by massive wooden pillars that were about 30 feet high that were said to be the recycled masts from ships in Nelson's navy. The wood was so hard it was impossible to knock a steel nail in more than a half inch before it bent over. The buildings were certainly the right age and they were protected by law so they could not be demolished.

About halfway through and I had to drop a comment to say how impressed I am with the amount of research and effort that must have gone into this. There's knowledge being dropped with every sentence. Whoever you are - you deserve to get commissioned by the BBC or history channel. Your work is as good if not better than many mainstream studio's that I've seen. Keep it up! Very appreciative.

As a French, can i take this opportunity to share my upmost respect for Great Britain and it’s navy. Vive la France et la Grande Bretagne !

As a boat builder, I'm stunned by the level of craftsmanship I know goes into such ships. I'm also horrified to know they constantly kept trying to destroy each other lol.

Absolutely insane I was literally on HMS Victory when this video was uploaded! I stood in the spot where Nelson fell, goosebumps guys

Master and commander is one of my all time favourite films so this documentary has really helped me understand how things worked, exemplary work! This channel is so underrated

This has been an incredibly interesting and factual documentary concerning one of the most remarkable vessels still in existence. I greatly enjoyed watching the two videos that made up this discussion of VICTORY. However, I noted a few relatively unimportant inaccuracies in some of the information that you might want to correct, should you ever make more videos, or revise this one: 1. On board ships there are no "pullies". They are called "blocks". 2. In battle not all officers would be on the quarterdeck. Several officers, usually including the First Lieutenant, would be supervising the guns below decks. 3. The reason the gun captain would stop the touch-hole or vent of the gun when it is being swabbed out isn't so much to prevent sparks being shot out as to create a vacuum as the swab was removed, to extinguish any remaining sparks still inside the bore. 4. Keeping the ball and charge inside the cannon was one purpose of the wad. However, another was to increase the pressure on the inside for the detonation. 5. The image shown when discussing how the "sextant" was used for the noon sightings was in fact an older "octant". 6. Ship's bells are rung in pairs. This makes it easy to count them and keep track of how many were rung. Especially for eight bells at the end of a watch, if they were rung in the way demonstrated in the video (but which would never have been done on board ship) many would lose track and thus not know how far into the watch they were. 7. In the Royal Navy there is no "Second Dog Watch". It is in stead called the "Last Dog Watch". It's only in the United States Navy that is is called the Second Dog. Incidentally, the First Watch started at 2000 (8 p.m.) rather than midnight because that was the time for pipe down or bed, and was thus considered the start of the Naval day. Having pointed these out, I do observe that wealth of accurate information vastly outweighs the few mistakes I've listed above.

cant belive that you have such detailed sorces to show the names of admirals down to sailors with there role on the ship its just mind blowing there no words to decribe the joy i fell when you upload a video!

At 18:14. Oooh, love the foreshadowing here for the Battle of Trafalgar. LOL. The maneuver that allowed the British to come out victorious at Trafalgar is the fact that Admiral Nelson ordered his line of ships to smash perpendicular to the Franco-Spanish line of ships. I wasn't aware of raking being the most destructive maneuver for a battleship. But at Trafalgar practically all the British ships raked the French and Spanish ships. Now I get why that was a very deadly and potent maneuver.

Still the flagship of the first sea lord to this day, shows the significants of a stunning warship.