VIDEO CORRECTIONS: Feel free to add your knowledge to this comment thread. Remember, teaching others your precious knowledge is a lovely thing and is best done with patience, and not excess sharpness. Some viewers have already pointed out that: - "battleship" is a modern term not applicable to old ships like this. - The boat is a "Pinnace", not pinnacle - Proper old English terms like fo'c'sle (forecastle), which we are aware of but which I omitted in the final script. - The Grand Magazine had light rooms nearby as well, like the hanging magazines. That is, they had separate rooms with lanterns behind glass for protection. - Apparently the yard isn't in the correct spot when hoisted, but I'll be damned if I could find info on just how that should have been situated when I was animating it! - The audio isn't the greatest. I know. I was being lazy, and I'll do better next time and give myself the proper time to get it right. I just dislike that part of the project. I've got a proper setup though, it's not my gear. Classic.
from user "edl617": Not a battleship. It’s a Ship of the Line. The Battleline which Is made of of ships of the line. The British Royal Navy rated ships of the line. 6th rate, 5th rate, 4th rate, 3rd Rate, 2nd Rate, and 1st Rate like the HMS Victoria. British Frigates had between 28 to 40 guns, then ships of the line 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 guns
I'm a much older man and remember when color TV first came out. Yes, I'm that old. Anyway, it's a real pleasure to see an intelligent and gifted young person turn his talents to interesting subjects as you have done. I especially liked your videos on the WW2 aircraft but the others are great too. Fascinating. I grew up playing with those airplane models and you've done a fine job of explaining everything about them. I had a model of HMS Victory ages and ages ago. Fascinating. It's a shame to lose that tech from bygone days but time moves on. Well, keep on doing your best and follow your bliss and you can't go wrong.
As someone who's been on several actual historical ships…I am surprised, how no one seems to comment on what an amazing animated 3D tutorial this is....we are taking a lot of hard work for granted watching this, thank you!
I am a sailor, but also a retired engineer who did a lot of 3D modeling in Solidworks. This model is a tour de force. I appreciate the complexity and the dozens of display states needed to tell this story. The final renderings must have taken weeks! Bravo!
Keep in mind parametric (solidworks) modeling is different than artistic models. This ship isn’t 100% dimensionally accurate with all the model information that an engineering software calculates. If this was made in Blender, for example, its modeling on each object is much simpler. This isn’t to say this render isn’t amazing, it really is, but we should keep in mind the difference between parametric modeling vs. graphical modeling.
When I watched his “how I made the locomotive” video I realized that, but I’m still in awe of his work. There’s no way a gaming program could be created with Solidworks without needing a supercomputer. BTW, I’m a bike geek, too
When I was a kid, I built a plastic model of the Mayflower, one of the ships that brought the Pilgrims to America. You don't know just how many ropes and lines there are until you build a ship, whether it's an accurate model or a real ship. My dad never needed to help with any of my modelling because he and my mother made sure that each of us kids learned early how to read and follow an assembly guide. Dad did help me when it came time to mix paint colors for small one-off batches so that I didn't have to buy a whole bottle of paint for each of the very minor colors in any given model, only to use just a few drops for a part that was supposed to look like oak, or another part that was supposed to look like an off-white railing or something. LOL, all on my paperboy income, hehe! Oak is a tan color, while Mahogany is a darker brown. Once you know how to make the off-colors from your bottles of common colors, that gives you the real power of creativity. Today there's probably an app for that, right?
That technology was the culmination of centuries of development. We think of it as primitive because it's old but it required vast knowledge and skill to build, maintain, and operate.
it's hard to imagine how did the designer, builder centuries ago orchestra this huge project with many parts cooperating together and the ship was functionable and workable. they have to know so many kinds of knowledge, military, sailing, physics, astronomy， meteorolgy, fire safety, air ventialation etc.incredible
ship like that is a pinnacle of hundreds of years of evolution and knowledge. Millions of man hours of experience. Ship like this wasn't born out of a vacuum. And yet im still in awe about how it is operated. 800people crew. its quite amazing.
It's not though. Whenever people say this they imagine themselves being sat down with the lack of knowledge we ourselves posess and being tasked with building such a ship. Just like in science, they stood on the shoulders of those who came before them. Over time people figure things out and they culminate in things like these ships or smart phones or 10 billion dollar telescopes launched into space to see almost the beginning of time. They didn't just wake up one day, look at a shitty raft and go "hold my beer, we need a bigger boat" lol - it's the culmination of human curiosity, effort, knowledge and ingenuity over time. Not that it makes it any less impressive.
@@jesustyronechrist2330well, yeah but like, we KNOW how they made these... we have replicated them even. Granted, we sucked at it and it took us way longer than them but that's to be expected considering we quit doing it for hundreds of years. People spoke the same language when they were building these. We have records, schematics and some of the ships themselves are still afloat and work just fine. No one has any idea still to this day exactly how tf they built the pyramids. Plus, these ships and the Egyptian pyramids were historically separated by about 4,000 years or so at least so that's kind of a big difference too lol.
What strikes me about these ships is how flexible and modular everything had to be; the gun decks are also mess halls and sleeping quarters. Raising anchors was a huge task that required clearing the decks, and even high-ranking officers are sleeping with a cannon or two as their roommate.
It took literally hundreds of years to device all the interactive devices, ropes, rooms, etc. Somebody had to take an idea and develop it into reality and practice.
As someone who has done 3D computer modeling work for many years, I must say this is astounding work. It epitomizes the powerful teaching potential of computer animation, and fulfills the dreams of people using the technology in the early years. The entire production is seamless and powerful. Makes the delivery of highly detailed and complex information seem easy and effortless, when it takes amazing skill to pull it off. Congratulations and Cheers
This is nothing - just wait until you find out what AI can do. We're about 5 years away from a person being able to write a conceptual paragraph, and the result being 10x more detailed than this. Technically, you can do it now - but people are still working out the kinks.
@@Old299dfk Hi thanks for your reply. I've been using text to image ai obsessively for about 6 months and can see the awesome power it promises, and I realize text to video can't be too far behind. Makes the skill and labor of work like this, like all of the skilled labor and taste involved in making great work, seem, sadly, tragically, like a thing of the past. Probably a year away. Cheers
@@Old299dfk We are nowhere near AI having the capability to reproduce Animagraff level quality, and when AI does reach that level, things will look different for all of us so I'll live out that reality when it comes. No worries. AI has proved useful to me right now, but in a serving capacity, and only if I know a lot about the subject so I can spot AI's many hallucinations, aka "making s**t up". It can be useful for writing code to improve my Blender 3D toolset, and yet, it often makes up commands that don't exist, or writes code that doesn't work, because at this point I often find myself deep into Blender's internals where synthesizing all of Stackoverflow (what AI has done, essentially) isn't going to help me since no one's talking about my specific use case.
I sailed on the Regina Maris from Tahiti to Hawaii to Mexico in 1973. Then I worked on the Balclutha in San Francisco Bay. This is by far the most complete, most well-done presentation on the subject that I have ever seen. I can't imagine the time and effort that went into this video. Thank you !!!
steve jette I was introduced to the Regina Maris by the novel Tuning the Rig by Harvey Oxenhorn. I stumbled across her when by chance in the late 90s I was in Greenport NY and walked by her. I had finished reading the book just weeks prior and was stunned to just happen by her like that. She was closed for repairs, so I left a donation and moved on. I was dissapointed to read of her being scrapped. Congratulations on being so blessed to have sailed aboard her.
I’ve sailed both oceans in boats 70’ and under. I find it interesting that Japanese Merchant Marine officers spend a couple years at sea square rig with certificates in celestial navigation. Our union based system? Not-so-much…
It’s honestly amazing how creative humans have been able to get with simple kinetic energy and only the simple force of our muscles and wind and water. The sheer ingenuity and design history in every plank of this ship is seriously impressive.
I agree, with only the force of Mother natures wind to move something so incredibly heavy, just imagine the sounds that ship would make sailing at night while sleeping.
@@Fastbikkel Smart, redundant compasses, without the knowledge of using the stars to navigate, having only one malfunctioning compass would be very perilous and could have you sailing into unfriendly territory, with deadly consequences.
This video is fantastic. As a history buff, I've always wondered about the details of these ships. This animation is far and away beyond anything I could've ever expected to see. Well, narrated with such detail as well. I think this video is an immensely successful undertaking not just in the superb graphics but the historical detail of the narration. Your team has set the standard that other such historical accounts must measure themselves against. This is truly a valuable contribution to the body of historical literature. I mean...damn!!!
As a leisure sailor & having visited & made models of Victory, this is an excellent breakdown of warship. Well done the hours spent in creating this video was well worth it, thank you. Mp
In many ways... indeed. However a quick history review shows a few boo-boos. On launching the ship listed to starboard significantly. and the lowest gunports were well below the shipwright/architects calculations- only ~4+ feet above the waterline! So gunports had to stay shut in rough weather.
The amount of engineering and crew know how behind this ship is mind blowing. Your animation is beyond incredible and your knowledge and presentation was out of the park. Thank you. I also loved the humor about the poop deck, that was hilarious. This is truly an amazing and informative video.
I keep thinking that computers are complicated, and that we've reached a point where things are very complicated, but the engineering of such a ship is also very complex and I don't know which is more impressive!!! It opens my eyes to see we have a history of really complex devices spanning centuries, if not millennia. :)
Well not really all the engineering was developed over time, specialized technologies used from other areas are joined together. The real feat is managing the sailors and everyone happy thus a strong discipline was very stringent, whipping….getting the ship to sail is a big feat but done with training over and over again…..now a lost technology
@@johnkennedysilveira1323if you stop and think about it, the only way to prevent deforestation or today's polution, would have been to keep living in huts and live as simple farmers. Money greed and power are to blame, but then again science and human evolution is inevitable.
I’m blown away, what an absolute masterpice of video. As someone whos always been obsessed with historic ships this is incredible. Please do more!! Greetings from Sweden!
I find it very rare to find an actually detail description inside a sailing warship ship. When I looked up interior diagram, most of them are simple and basic.
Not saying that modern warships aren't plenty complicated in their own right, but this video manages to demonstrate the incredible complexity and ingenuity of sailing ships.
When it comes to warships, a phrase comes in mind, the more things change, the more they stay the same, sure in modern warships we have dedicated crew quarters, kitchens and such but a bilge pump and a water condenser and such as well as ammo storage still stays the same. Plus a random tidbit, despite the invention of brass cartridges when steel hull ships are being built, the cannon shells were dropped and instead are loaded via a block or sack of gunpowder, or another way. However the same aspect that still stays the same, despite materials and tech that changed, the idea and lay outs are still beyond similar.
Yeah you know, you'd almost be better off in a bad storm, if that cannon were to simply fall overboard. You'd lose a cannon, yes, but you'd save the crew and probably lots of damage!
The amount of planning, engineering, and construction for a ship built almost 260 years ago is beyond impressive. This was a thoroughly entertaining video. Thank you for creating it.
Agreed. When I visited the ship (it is at the Naval Dockyard in Portsmouth, England) it was unbelievable to me that such a huge and complex vessel could be made out of wood.
It’s not for nothing that they say the difference between prison and a ship is that you won’t drown in prison. It is impossible to imagine how the sailors of old times suffered, being in such conditions for weeks and months, and how devastating this was to their health.
I can recommend a book called The Wager - it depicts the real story of survivors of HMS Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. Really gave me chills to the bone reading the gruesome conditions these people had to endure.
@@pavelgl5926 The most common reason for a sailor leaving the sea wasn't old age and retirement; it was hernia from overexertion. Just one shorthanded emergency, or unexpected roll of the ship might be a permanent disability pension for the crewman unlucky enough to be alone on a hawser or gun block.
@@Liquination If you enjoyed the Wager you may want to try Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series. Not as good as the Wager (fiction never can be), but well worth a read. I am currently on book 18 of the 20, and boy to I wish I had seen this video before I had started. Amazing model, and descriptions. Thank you so, so much.
Extraordinary. Congratulations on this phenomenal work. I can't imagine the number of hours you devoted to allow us to admire this magnificent ship. Admiral Nelson would be proud of you. I built a wooden model of this warship in my youth, but I had never known her "insides" until tonight. Thank you and all my respect for your fabulous work.
the density of sailors and equipment packed into that surprisingly complicated ship, and the engineering to do all of that with wood and such, is astounding. I learned so much from this!
A wooden ship was flexible and "lived "in its element. The right kinds of wood and basic lubricants and sealants (i.e. tallow and tar) resisted water and weather exposure.
@@youtubeanything7291 We still use wood in many watermanagement applications today. Like in groynes to keep rivers from miandering in corners and near sluice gates or even just to provide support to other wooden structures in case of collision when docking near them minimalising damaga to ships, just to name a few. The thing with proper wood you have to deal with mostly has to do with oxidation. The layer that might be both in and out of the water at certain times. This can be managed by regulating the water level and treating and of course properly maintaining those structures. Here in the Netherlands, river sluice gates are made of out wood some of the time to this day. I've personally even visited a company that made one for a sluice in Zaandam once some years ago. I have pictures somewhere, but they were something like 10 meters or 30 feet in height. It's still something reliable as a material, similar to steel depending on the application. Just like wood, steel needs to be treated and maintened properly. It's not a one for all purposes wonder-material. On top of that, determining the strength on the characteristics of some wooden structure is not that different from the difficulty the strength of pouring, casting, soldering, welding etc would be. It takes knowledge and tools either way. Hope this gave you some insight. If you really want to dive deep, look up some stuff about material mechanics. :)
@@LSR303 that's some dense infos! thanks! can you tell me how they manage to prolong the wood at the point where they hook the beefy ropes of anchors? They literally pull it while sliding rope into wood. That's so much pressure..
As a current sailor, this makes me so grateful for the advancement of modernity. This ship is so complex it's disgusting. To pivot from one type of action to another seems like a daunting task. It seems like everything would be busy all the time. So many things must be manipulated deliberately that there's little room for error. I can't imagine the precision the crew must have practiced. I'm very grateful for modern winches, the bermuda rig, slide tracks, and construction strong enough to allow for dedicated use of spaces.
Wow, as a model shipbuilder who is currently building the HMS Victory from plans acquired from the British Maritime Museum this video is invaluable as a great resource to further understand the plans. Incredible work was spent making this video. Respects and much appreciation for this hard work! Subscribed.
I'm on a similar quest. Not a scratch build, but the Corel 1:98 scale kit. I did the main mast cross section (also Corel at the same scale) a couple of decades ago. I've got quite a few books regarding the naval architecture of the Victory, complemented by hundreds of photos I took of her during a visit to Portsmouth. What I like about this video is that it provides a very thorough, yet digestible, description of the ships construction, function and operation. Extremely well done.
@sandra huntington ooof... i touched a nerve there.... do you see i am also typing this all in lowercase ? there is also a space between the 'e' and that question mark..... i am also using many ellipsis ..... do you shout in public to get your point across ? i know many karens that do that .. . . . . . ... kk kk ...
Even more amazing when you realize they designed it without modern technology of any sort to help. Their only drafting tools were a quill pen, ink and parchment.
@@Raskolnikov70 They had both PAPER and LEAD PENCILS (hollow wood tubes molten lead had been poured into, graphite came much later) at the time Victory was designed/built. Possibly more remarkable was that initial design work was done by CARVING a "half model" of one side of a ship hull, then that physical model was translated into building a whole ship's hull.
Very expensive to build and operate also. Would love to have seen it in action, what a show. Wouldn't want to stay on one but, to be on board to see, hear and smell the fury of those guns, would be incredible.
I love how you present fact with no bias- I’m sure the temptation to speak your opinion is huge! And at times I find I would love your opinion. I respect your dedication to providing information without slant. Super impressive. Thank you.
@@sebaschan-uwu Are you A.I.? What kind of artificially dumb comment is that? "Its a ai generated voice" Even Stephen Hawking needed a text to speech. The text to speech doesn't have a mind of its own. Like if Stephen put "2+2=9" it doesn't just interpret that as "The universe is expanding...". lol And i'm not even convinced that your irrelevant statement is even true anyway. Just because he's talking in a professional presentating manner doesn't mean it must be A.I. And trust me i've seen all those movie recap channels. If this voice actually happens to be generated, then i'd have to say it's pretty realistic to the point that you can't even tell. There's a reason to present a voice this way. It's the reason we write scripts. To just give all the relevant information needed and not have any "uhm"s in the narration. The OP was simply talking about the lack of bias in his narration. That's nothing to do with the voice. It could've been text on screen even. But also about the OP's comment, i don't see why he'd expect there to be bias anyway. Like was he expecting him to condemn history or something? That's not the point of the video. It's to just see how an incredible old age ship worked. You don't have to bring up the politics of the time when explaining how every invention was made. "Yes they invented fire, but do you know what these barbaric caveman went on to use it for? Cooking the animals. Dastardly, i do say." lol "And at times I find I would love your opinion.". That's a pretty wild assumption. lol
This was absolutely amazingly done. Do not let disparaging criticisms dampen your gift please. This is the absolute pinnacle of "shipology" documentaries. Thank you
This 'virtual' tour of HMS Victory is a phenomenal teaching aid. Brought up in the south of England, I've had the privilige of visiting the Victory a few times. She is in dry dock in Portsmouth, Hampshire. This 'virtual' tour makes you realise how much design and craftsmanship went into making a 'ship of the line' like this. Thanks for the eye-opening 'tour'. Much appreciated.
Thank you to the content creator here! I am an older man and I love learning things in my later years as it makes time pass. This was fantastically done and very easy to follow. I cannot convey my appreciation enough. Thank you again! I wish the very best of health and happiness to you all and also to your families!
We actually tend to forget that those ships were engineering marvels. It is crazy to see the amount of work that went into that, and the end result was just astounding. So cool to actually see a ship layer by layer and understand the science behind it.
Absolutely, highly recommend checking out the salvaged warship Vasa at the museum w/ the same name n Stockholm if you ever have the chance. A 17th century Swedish empire warship. Really impressive to be able to see one IRL and how gigantic it was.. A real beauty & behemot. Like you said, so much effort and hard work went into these projects..
@@peterpopovics9901 Haha yeah, makes it even better. A good story of legend.. Vasa was just one of several vessels that were built in similar size to Vasa but the others never got the intricate design choices meant to be flashy and impressive flag ship style. Amount of cannons differed. Anyway, great museum! love that kind of stuff!
As a sailor, it was quite an amazing thing to watch how vessels were operated back then. I was particularly surprised at how much weight those ships carried. Great video :)
@@mrshmanckles1463 I'm going to watch it again and this time add up all the weights that are mentioned. Be interesting to see what the figure is. Gives the term 'in irons' a completely different meaning. I've been in irons on a sailboat, mostly during training sessions, but all we had to do was ease the main sheet completely and push the boom out. Or ease the jib and pull it out the side by hand to catch water ever bit of wind was there. Can you imagine being in irons in a ship like that, in the middle of a battle?
@@mrshmanckles1463 not really, those ships are almost unsinkable. only a powder magazine detonation would take it down. If you read the accounts of the battle of Trafalgar, some ships of the line went back to port with tremendous damages including below the waterline but were still floating.
Amazing work guys! As a young kid in the 1960s I could only dream of books or films with such details, it's like a dream come true. Thank you for such a real treat :)
I sometimes wonder how different my life would be had I access to the vast information of the web when I was growing up in the 70s, I remember card catalogs at the library, and if it wasn't taken out, still in readable condition, some books just aren't as user friendly as the information forms on the web for a visual learner.
@@jimmyohara2601 My posting was in response to the original comment about the person growing up in the 60s, only dreaming of the details put into books/movies as this video had, but my comment can apply to all past generations.
Ships are not my main point of interest, but I gave it a try. As an engineer I loved the technical details and the calm presentation which allowed me to appreciate the giant amount of thought and hundrets of years of engineering experiene that went into these ships. Thank you for this nice unagitated video that made my day already much better. Maybe, you created a Ship-Fan, because now I want to know more 🙂
Yea they wouldn't, they don't even know what a video is. Once explained they would propably appreciate it, and think it's nice how someone spend time on working out one of their designs so far in the future, but "appreciate it more than words can even describe"? Hell no. This video wasn't their life purpose. They just did their job and designed a ship. They probably designed a ton of projects in their lifetime. They would care a lot more about suddenly being 200+ years in the future and finding out how the world developed, how history went down, how their distant family is doing and what new technologies are around.
@@Mvb91 okay so if you’re childhood home was reconstructed down to the foundation, up to the completed home, you wouldn’t be in awe? You’re probably 14 so you live in your childhood home. When you grow up you’ll understand
The copper hull plating was mainly a defence against the dreaded 'toredo worm'. The salt water equivalent of wood worm. It could literally eat away the lower hull causing the ship to sink without warning. It also discouraged other marine growths like barnacles and similar, which slowed the ship down. The first copper plates were fixed with iron nails. But immersed in acidic salt water it formed a simple battery with the copper. Causing the iron to both rust and be eaten away. And the copper plates all fell off. Later fixings used copper rivets.
The amount of engineering that goes into building and operating one of these ships is simply astounding. I don't think there are other wind powered devices that even remotely come close to this complexity.
Hundreds of years of trial and error. All errors and vulnerabilities are documented and improved upon in the next model. Whether that be be weapons system logistics, cordage that’s easier for the crew to handle, food storage techniques, and new chemical technology, it’s just amazing.
You did an incredible job with this video, especially if ships aren't your specialty. As a sailor, I'm pleasantly surprised by how incredibly popular this video is! 1.6 MILLION views in FIVE days!? Bravo. 👏🏻
In the director’s commentary for “Master and Commander”, they describe the ships/navy of the time as the equivalent of NASA. This video helps make clear just how advanced everything was. You’ve made an incredibly valuable teaching companion to one of my favorite films. Thank you! 🙏
That's pretty freaking insightful. In the 1700s there were still whole landmasses western humanity was only vaguely aware of. It's crazy to think about the materials of the time and how well they were used.
Yeah that's crazy, huh? And there are only about 6 "seats of ease", which seriously means, if you do the math and exclude the officers...it's like 10 minutes per man, per toilet seat in any given 24 hour period. So, you probably had to wait in line to take a shit, and you had 10 minutes on average, to get it done. Now that's pressure.
The excellence of this video comes from your careful hearing the sensible organization of the ship's design speaking to you I am moved to tears, thank you
As someone who’s in the process of learning to operate vastly more modern ships today and has a latent interest in the design and operations of old sail vessels, this video has been one of the most concise and informative I have come across. Thank you greatly for your research and presentation. Also I’m very glad my job has very little to do with walking around a capstan
@@walterkennedy9474 Something we used to get the junior (Royal Navy) sailors hunting for. Always best to get the stokers onboard with the game first...
Amazing. Your video is one of the best I’ve seen since the internet became accessible. Your articulations on all subjects are first class, giving even the non sailors a helpful, rudimentary understanding of the concepts on the boat design and functions. I was even starting to imagine what it might feel like to be each of the different ranking crew members. I’m blown away by this video. Thank you for creating it. ❤
Wow, the modelling, animation, narration, writing, and flow of this had me captivated from the get go. Really nice work. Very informative and the information flows wonderfully. This is some of the better stuff I've seen in a while.
I am astounded at the level of detail and information you are able to communicate about a ship so quickly and clearly. this is the best video of its type that I have seen.
Brilliant! Truly excellent! I’ve learned more in 25 mins than 40 yrs of looking at Victory. 😊👍 Excellently clear graphics, steady, accurate voice-over, and a pace that is easy to follow without becoming tedious. I don’t remember anything as good for . . . well, ever! I cannot praise you enough. Thank you.
I concur. I've actually been on the HMS Victory (on which this video is based) and while impressed, I'd have been even more so with such a demonstration as shown in this vid.
@@davoostergotland5160 I never meant to cause you trouble and I, I never meant to do you wrong and I, well if I ever caused you trouble. Oh no, I never meant to do you harm.
As an architect who has been making 3D models of buildings for 30 years I really do appreciate you work and effort! Outstanding modelling and visualization skills and great presentation! Thank you!
It's inspiring to see you think so :) My brother and I aren't really into the "growth at all costs" model of modern business, so I imagine the channel will grow slow and steady. But I'm happy to have us all along for the ride! :D
I can’t imagine the amount of work that goes into making animations of this quality. Thank you for all your hard work, this one is simply stunning. I’ve visited HMS Victory in Portsmouth several times and wish I could have seen this first.
I was thinking the same, and it's a testament to the power of independent content creators. The quality of this is superior to something that you'd see on a mainstream TV channel just 10 years ago.
I love to see a subject get the treatment it deserves. That ship -- this video. The high level of skill and sheer hard work that went into both the ship, and this video. Appropriate, worthy, impressive as hell. BRAVO!!!
The Victory was the intercontinental ballistic missile of its day. You have done us a greater service than any other video available of this masterpiece. It must have taken a HUGE effort on your part, but well worth it to us! Thank you!
This is brilliant. I've read a lot of material on these ships and studied cutaway drawings, but this 3D flyaround adds a whole new level to assist the viewer's comprehension. Excellent work.
This is one of the most fascinating videos I've ever seen on UA-cam. The ships had such intricate and well designed systems--and your graphics capture them entirely. Well done.
Absolutely great video!! No fluff, opinions or irrelevant facts to fill time. Just accurate concrete info about the build. Too many creators fill their videos with irrelevant verbal trash. Thank you for doing an amazing job!!
Former FMF Corpsman here. Spent 7 years in the Navy. Nothing but respect and admiration for this generation of sailors, and those before. Those men must have been tough as nails.
I have nothing but wow to add to this. How cool is this? I had absolutely no clue how these old ships worked. It's stunning how well organized they had these things running back then. Amazing stuff!
This is an absolutely fabulous animation but, the animation is only a part of it. The vast amount of knowledge you've imparted via this incredibly great animation is, if I may properly use this word, AMAZING!!!!! Thank you so much for this magnificent creation and sharing with everyone! The overall complexity of designing, building and, ultimately operating a ship of this caliber is a totally different story in itself. Thank you again.
I remember as a kid looking at books with cross-section pictures of old warships and being amazed at it. This feels exactly like those old books, so much information packed into the video! Thanks for making it.
Regarding the anchors: Simply raising the anchors was comparably easy to do. Problems started when you wanted to leave an anchorage under adverse wind-conditions. In this case you had to raise on anchor, load it onto the launch and row the launch out to sea. There you dropped the anchor from the launch and allowed it to sink to the bottom. Now you hauled in the anchor you just dropped, while carefully allowing the other anchorcable to go slack. That way you dragged your ship out to sea. You now used the launch to raise the original anchor, move it even further out to sea, drop it and start the whole process anew until you could safely raise sails. This process was called 'warping' and was several hours of gruesome labour. Warp-speed was neither fast nor pleasant back in the days.
Warping was not always used, more often than not the ship was towed out by a specially designed rowing barge. Warping was used only when departure could not wait for Mother Nature’s winds/tides. Phillip K Allan, Andrew Wareham & Chris Durbin are British novelists that have written great historical books on the British Navy in the 18th & 19th centuries; chock full of naval life, methods, tactics & procedures.
I'm completely dumbfounded by the incredible detail of both the ship and this video. I have no idea how many months was spent making this, but thank you so much. It's amazing.
I am thoroughly impressed by the detail and accuracy of this diagram! Well done! I have never before seen anything so informative on these ships. I have a new appreciation of the people who designed, built and manned these beasts!
Wow. Just, wow. So much detail and such a deep knowledge of the subject at hand. I’m really impressed not only by your work, but also by the engineering that allowed this class of ship to float and fight. It’s a work of art through and through. For the time the Victory was built, it was truly a marvel of human design.
I don't often feel compelled to leave a comment but I need to express how impressive this video is, with its excellent narration and high-quality animation, as well as being informative and fascinating. Awesome content. Off to check out the rest of your channel now.
Wonderful explanation. Well done Sir. This is by far the best show of the Interior of a ship and how it works I've seen...... and I'm a life long sailor, 50+ years, professional model ship builder and Nautical museum curator for the past 29 years! Thank you, new subscriber.
This is amazing! It's not just the information, it's how easy you make it to comprehend it all. I love seeing the structure of the ship right from scratch to all the details and rooms. Thank you so much for producing these! I love old Hornblower movies, stories like Master & Commader and learning about the arctic expeditions of the 19th century, and of course it helps a lot to understand the working of these ships. I've always been amazed by all the work and resources that went into building these ships, and also by the weird human tendency to build something as impressive as this, and then to go and use it, of course, to blow each other up. Thank you so much for producing something that's fascinating and informative (and also very unlikely to be used to blow somebody up). 🙂😉
I’ve been on that ship so many times (my grandfather knew the curator many years ago and no matter how busy it was I never queued once), but still there are things about it that surprise me every now and then. Last time, about ten years ago, I got to wander around without a guide and that was truly a great moment. Right after that my boss (a second sea lord, SAM for those in the know), it was once his ship and he said it was always interesting holding a banquet on it
This is an amazing video. I think I learned more from this video than from anything else that I have ever watched on UA-cam. Those ships were so wonderfully designed with not a foot of wasted space. It's hard to believe that something like that could be engineered over 200 years ago. Thanks again for your hard work in creating this excellent video.
Seeing this video and watching Master and Commander just work so well together to get a full picture of just how incredible engineering and effort must have gone into running the ships
That was beautifully done. You concentrated on a particular aspect, and ghosted the rest of the model so well. And then transitioned to the next item without jarring the viewer experience. I'm so impressed at your skill, not just on the technical depiction, but on the way you used just what was necessary to provide the relevant teaching. Truly well done.
I have never seen such attention to detail and such high quality animation on some particular subject. This is really impressive Your work reminds me of some old books like “Incredible Cross-sections” by Stephen Biesty’s, but the much modern and better version of it. As a child in the 80s/90s, books like these fascinated me. I can say that they were a huge influence in my formation as an adult and in becoming an engineer myself. I truly hope your videos can inspire newer engineering generations to come. I wish I could see what kinds of things they will create in the future. Engineering is really a passion of mine, and this thought really warms my heart :) Keep up the good work! Ps: This video was my “gateway drug” to all of your other videos ;)
I was revisiting Biesty's Man-of-War book - also featuring HMS Victory, or at least an unnamed stand-in - after watching this wonderful video, and I find that the two are excellent companions! Whereas the video moves from the hold upwards, the book moves from bow to stern, offering its information mostly thematically and populating its cross-sections with all sorts of vignettes. I played "Return of the Obra Dinn" recently, and it was a good opportunity to educate myself on sailing ships and how they work. I'd been especially curious about the rigging, so the last section of the video was one of the most interesting for me; I had also been confused about the messenger rope until seeing here how it worked. Most informative!
As an owner/sailor of a 55’ yacht here in Hong Kong, which is quite a bit to handle, my mind is BLOWN by the complexity of this vessel. What an amazing thing to have built, nearly 200 years ago, all from natural materials. 800 crew! OMG! Well done to Animagraffs too, for a superb lesson! Thank you, it’s been an experience !
What an amazing video. So much work has gone into this model, not to mention the research. You seem kind of down about the audio but even as an audio engineer it was barely a distraction because the content was so incredible! The video feels like something you would find in a top quality 5 star museum. The lack of a sponsored message interruption helps to give it this feel btw. Great work.
This is the most comprehensive video on an old sailing ship that I have ever watched. Narrated clearly and fully understood, the graphics are also brilliantly accompanying the narration. thank you for this video.
As someone who loves sailing ships and military history, especially naval stuff, this was such a blast and joy to watch!! Thanks for this awesome educational video :D I saw your comment mentioning that you were upset about how the audio turned out but I barely noticed it at all! Amazing video
Wow, this is nothing like what I expected. I had no idea how incredible the design and engineering of these ships were. I had to rewind when the cargo hold weights were listed to make sure I was hearing it right.
Remarkable isn't it. I always wondered how old ships carried enough food for each man aboard. I never even thought about how many men might be on there though. It's all completely incredible, and I think I'm going to watch it again this evening.
This is seriously the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. In a short amount of time you like educated me to so many things I knew nothing about, and I generally consider myself an intelligent person. I love what you do! How interesting this ship is, makes me wonder about so many old or ancient mechanisms that are considered to be simple yet in reality are so well thought out and complex. Keep up the great work.
This is a beautiful piece of art illustrating what I’ve read about for my entire life. Starting with the Horatio Hornblower books as a teenager and then reading many different series all based on 18th century British (and other nationalities) Naval warfare I struggled to envision what the ships looked like. This vessel you illustrate here was referred to as a “ship of the line”. Most of the heroes of the fictional books I read sailed frigates, or larger cutters but Hornblower did finally walk the quarter deck of a ship of the line. Your illustration brought all of these books to greater life. It is very easy to see how every day life on a ship of the line would progress. The details of your research is very impressive. While many of the facts presented in this illustrative video were known to me, some were not. I had no idea that the anchors were so large and that the ship carried so many. Also, I could not picture the ‘tween decks areas clearly but your video opened up that part of the ship. It would be easy to continue commenting on the many details illustrated in your video but I just want to say congratulations for bringing this part of naval history to life. Bravo!
Ship of the Line is short for "Ship of the Line of Battle", so Battleship isn't wrong, although not as common in the period. Later on they dropped the "SotL" part as battleships were gradually given front-firing or turret-based guns and thus did not need to stay in a line to give effective fire as much.
Very good, I had the same models (and many more…) but I was rubbish at painting them. Really cool of this video to remind me of all those funny little parts names. I’ve been on the actual ‘Victory’ a few times and there isn’t much headroom on that lower gun deck. A dark and scary place for the men who ‘worked’ there.
Absolutely incredible! I’ve been working on a model of the Victory for a couple years now and this walkthrough has given me some great continual inspiration! Thank you very much for your hard work!
The 3 D and transparent rendering of the Victory is phenomenal . Your video is a great insight as to how these ships actually work . The 18th century engineers and builders really thought the process through . Even though these ships where formidable and deadly they were the height of technology in that day . The design of these ships where beautiful .
Stunning. I can't imagine how a designer was able to put such a complex structure together so that it could function efficiently. in war. I have visited the Victory 3 times in the last 60 years and got the standard tour, but I learned more about it from your video in half an hour than from all of the visits.
I think it was decades or even centuries of improvements over time which those designers studied and then implemented or improved even further. It wasn't like 1 person thought all of this over 1 week (simply put) .
Visited Portsmouth and the Historic dockyard in April. Victory is undergoing a deep restoration / preservation with a special exhibit where you can see the outside during it's repair. The size of the timbers is mind blowing. Took us 4 days to see all the different museums/ships at the Dockyard. Victory, Warrior, Mary Rose, Alliance, RN museum, weapons museum, boat house, dock tour by water. Was fantastic and highly recommended.
Yes, the naval dockyards and HMS Victory (even in refurb) is a must visit for everyone. I visited in 1974, when I was on a Royal Navy Seamanship for Youth Course. I’ll never forget the surgeon’s deck which was painted red…so sailors couldn’t see the blood. When you see the rudimentary instruments used in those days you can understand why carpentry was such a big thing!
How cool would it be to have an animation like this as you're doing the tours, helping to visualize how the small part you're seeing in person goes into the full operation of the ship.
oh my god, if this existed when I was a teen I would for sure have watched this a hundred times. Thank you for this amazing extremely detailed video. All the items are fascinating and shows how much thought they put into ship building. I love you
This piece of work itself should be in the Smithsonian! Immensely informative and easy to understand. How long did it take to research and produce this masterpiece?
My brother Wesley dug up the research and assembled a brief for me to take from there. We usually buy the outer shell of the ship/vehicle if there's one available that's accurate enough, but even with that they're always wildly inaccurate and need a TON of work. Everything inside, and much of the rigging specifics, I also built myself. It takes about 2 months once I get the project. But no, it's not a team of people doing 3D. It's just me! That's why the animation style doesn't have the cinematic grit and whatnot, there's just no time for that when pinpoint accuracy is the goal. At this point I've authored 3,000+ lines of code in my custom tool set that integrates into Blender 3D (the software I use). So I'm getting very efficient at this workflow, and tackling things that were really hard with those first big projects. It feels damn good to press into such massive projects and actually pull it off!!
Fun fact, the bitts (the wooden pieces the anchor cable attaches to) is where we get the term "to the bitter end" ie to release the entire anchor cable to the end attached to the bitt.
This is a magnificent animated lesson! Thank you so much. I had a general notion after years of reading Patrick O'Brian and other historical works, but this video filled in and clarified lots of very vague bits of my understanding. I appreciate your work very much.
VIDEO CORRECTIONS:
Feel free to add your knowledge to this comment thread. Remember, teaching others your precious knowledge is a lovely thing and is best done with patience, and not excess sharpness.
Some viewers have already pointed out that:
- "battleship" is a modern term not applicable to old ships like this.
- The boat is a "Pinnace", not pinnacle
- Proper old English terms like fo'c'sle (forecastle), which we are aware of but which I omitted in the final script.
- The Grand Magazine had light rooms nearby as well, like the hanging magazines. That is, they had separate rooms with lanterns behind glass for protection.
- Apparently the yard isn't in the correct spot when hoisted, but I'll be damned if I could find info on just how that should have been situated when I was animating it!
- The audio isn't the greatest. I know. I was being lazy, and I'll do better next time and give myself the proper time to get it right. I just dislike that part of the project. I've got a proper setup though, it's not my gear. Classic.
Hey man, I didn't know until this video how "boatswain" was pronounced, and that was pretty damn cool to learn
Beatiful. Just like recent Epic History video on Victoria
from user "edl617":
Not a battleship. It’s a Ship of the Line. The Battleline which Is made of of ships of the line. The British Royal Navy rated ships of the line. 6th rate, 5th rate, 4th rate, 3rd Rate, 2nd Rate, and 1st Rate like the HMS Victoria. British Frigates had between 28 to 40 guns, then ships of the line 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 guns
from "jameshigh6481":
Ships don't have floors. They have decks.
I'm a much older man and remember when color TV first came out. Yes, I'm that old. Anyway, it's a real pleasure to see an intelligent and gifted young person turn his talents to interesting subjects as you have done. I especially liked your videos on the WW2 aircraft but the others are great too. Fascinating. I grew up playing with those airplane models and you've done a fine job of explaining everything about them. I had a model of HMS Victory ages and ages ago. Fascinating. It's a shame to lose that tech from bygone days but time moves on.
Well, keep on doing your best and follow your bliss and you can't go wrong.
As someone who's been on several actual historical ships…I am surprised, how no one seems to comment on what an amazing animated 3D tutorial this is....we are taking a lot of hard work for granted watching this, thank you!
Was thinking the same, well done job pleasure to see
I was about to comment on that. Now I will just support your comment. That is good animated 3D model work.
I think it's because that goes without saying. It's probably the first thing everyone thought of as they started watching the video.
Thinking the same thing. Amazing work.
Yes, fascinating video and very thorough! Very well done!
I am a sailor, but also a retired engineer who did a lot of 3D modeling in Solidworks. This model is a tour de force. I appreciate the complexity and the dozens of display states needed to tell this story. The final renderings must have taken weeks! Bravo!
Keep in mind parametric (solidworks) modeling is different than artistic models. This ship isn’t 100% dimensionally accurate with all the model information that an engineering software calculates. If this was made in Blender, for example, its modeling on each object is much simpler.
This isn’t to say this render isn’t amazing, it really is, but we should keep in mind the difference between parametric modeling vs. graphical modeling.
When I watched his “how I made the locomotive” video I realized that, but I’m still in awe of his work.
There’s no way a gaming program could be created with Solidworks without needing a supercomputer.
BTW, I’m a bike geek, too
It's incredible how everything seems so rudimentary, yet so well-thought at the same time.
rudimentary to us maybe, yet to elk, it is beyond fathom
When I was a kid, I built a plastic model of the Mayflower, one of the ships that brought the Pilgrims to America. You don't know just how many ropes and lines there are until you build a ship, whether it's an accurate model or a real ship. My dad never needed to help with any of my modelling because he and my mother made sure that each of us kids learned early how to read and follow an assembly guide. Dad did help me when it came time to mix paint colors for small one-off batches so that I didn't have to buy a whole bottle of paint for each of the very minor colors in any given model, only to use just a few drops for a part that was supposed to look like oak, or another part that was supposed to look like an off-white railing or something. LOL, all on my paperboy income, hehe! Oak is a tan color, while Mahogany is a darker brown. Once you know how to make the off-colors from your bottles of common colors, that gives you the real power of creativity. Today there's probably an app for that, right?
That technology was the culmination of centuries of development. We think of it as primitive because it's old but it required vast knowledge and skill to build, maintain, and operate.
There have always been incredibly clever humans to design this stuff, but technology advances slowly.
It took centuries of trial and error...
it's hard to imagine how did the designer, builder centuries ago orchestra this huge project with many parts cooperating together and the ship was functionable and workable. they have to know so many kinds of knowledge, military, sailing, physics, astronomy， meteorolgy, fire safety, air ventialation etc.incredible
ship like that is a pinnacle of hundreds of years of evolution and knowledge. Millions of man hours of experience. Ship like this wasn't born out of a vacuum. And yet im still in awe about how it is operated. 800people crew. its quite amazing.
I'm surprised conspiracy theorists aren't saying "aliens build these ships", similarly how they say about the pyramids.
It's not though. Whenever people say this they imagine themselves being sat down with the lack of knowledge we ourselves posess and being tasked with building such a ship. Just like in science, they stood on the shoulders of those who came before them. Over time people figure things out and they culminate in things like these ships or smart phones or 10 billion dollar telescopes launched into space to see almost the beginning of time. They didn't just wake up one day, look at a shitty raft and go "hold my beer, we need a bigger boat" lol - it's the culmination of human curiosity, effort, knowledge and ingenuity over time. Not that it makes it any less impressive.
@@jesustyronechrist2330well, yeah but like, we KNOW how they made these... we have replicated them even. Granted, we sucked at it and it took us way longer than them but that's to be expected considering we quit doing it for hundreds of years. People spoke the same language when they were building these. We have records, schematics and some of the ships themselves are still afloat and work just fine. No one has any idea still to this day exactly how tf they built the pyramids. Plus, these ships and the Egyptian pyramids were historically separated by about 4,000 years or so at least so that's kind of a big difference too lol.
@@jesustyronechrist2330 always with the aliens lol
What strikes me about these ships is how flexible and modular everything had to be; the gun decks are also mess halls and sleeping quarters. Raising anchors was a huge task that required clearing the decks, and even high-ranking officers are sleeping with a cannon or two as their roommate.
the cannons dont snore, exept when they need too.
Its a level of project design and managment inmaginable in a time where there was no industries and no computers.
It took literally hundreds of years to device all the interactive devices, ropes, rooms, etc. Somebody had to take an idea and develop it into reality and practice.
Also, think about the carpenters literally knocking down all the walls between decks EVERY time the ship cleared for drills or action!
@@jonpopelka Yeah but I'm pretty sure the partition walls were designed to be easily removed or repositioned.
As someone who has done 3D computer modeling work for many years, I must say this is astounding work. It epitomizes the powerful teaching potential of computer animation, and fulfills the dreams of people using the technology in the early years. The entire production is seamless and powerful. Makes the delivery of highly detailed and complex information seem easy and effortless, when it takes amazing skill to pull it off. Congratulations and Cheers
This is nothing - just wait until you find out what AI can do.
We're about 5 years away from a person being able to write a conceptual paragraph, and the result being 10x more detailed than this.
Technically, you can do it now - but people are still working out the kinks.
@@Old299dfk Hi thanks for your reply. I've been using text to image ai obsessively for about 6 months and can see the awesome power it promises, and I realize text to video can't be too far behind. Makes the skill and labor of work like this, like all of the skilled labor and taste involved in making great work, seem, sadly, tragically, like a thing of the past. Probably a year away. Cheers
Look at these Russian trollers
@@Old299dfk We are nowhere near AI having the capability to reproduce Animagraff level quality, and when AI does reach that level, things will look different for all of us so I'll live out that reality when it comes. No worries.
AI has proved useful to me right now, but in a serving capacity, and only if I know a lot about the subject so I can spot AI's many hallucinations, aka "making s**t up". It can be useful for writing code to improve my Blender 3D toolset, and yet, it often makes up commands that don't exist, or writes code that doesn't work, because at this point I often find myself deep into Blender's internals where synthesizing all of Stackoverflow (what AI has done, essentially) isn't going to help me since no one's talking about my specific use case.
@@animagraffs nobody can emulate you, my brother ;)
I sailed on the Regina Maris from Tahiti to Hawaii to Mexico in 1973. Then I worked on the Balclutha in San Francisco Bay. This is by far the most complete, most well-done presentation on the subject that I have ever seen. I can't imagine the time and effort that went into this video. Thank you !!!
steve jette I was introduced to the Regina Maris by the novel Tuning the Rig by Harvey Oxenhorn. I stumbled across her when by chance in the late 90s I was in Greenport NY and walked by her. I had finished reading the book just weeks prior and was stunned to just happen by her like that. She was closed for repairs, so I left a donation and moved on. I was dissapointed to read of her being scrapped. Congratulations on being so blessed to have sailed aboard her.
Just trivia but my ex wife's grandfather was the last captain of the Balcutha. He sailed it to its current berth in SF.
@@patnitzel3542 Do you know the year ?
I remember the Regina Maris from the episode of Cosmos when Carl Sagan is doing Whale song.
@@Shady-Shane I did not know that !!
Exceptional video, my wife and I watched this together, we both thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot. Thank you.
I'm a Navy man and love these old ships. This is the best study I've seen. Very informative. Rigging breakdown was superb.
Awesome. Fair winds and following seas and hope to do some coins for you soon!
Hi, Craig isn't this interesting, and also I love to know about old ships is like taking me to a different time.just love these documentaries.
I’ve sailed both oceans in boats 70’ and under. I find it interesting that Japanese Merchant Marine officers spend a couple years at sea square rig with certificates in celestial navigation. Our union based system? Not-so-much…
WW1 veterans
How’s it going, shipmate? FCA2 (SW) here
It’s honestly amazing how creative humans have been able to get with simple kinetic energy and only the simple force of our muscles and wind and water. The sheer ingenuity and design history in every plank of this ship is seriously impressive.
I agree
And they had the guts to travel far.
I agree, with only the force of Mother natures wind to move something so incredibly heavy, just imagine the sounds that ship would make sailing at night while sleeping.
@@Fastbikkel Smart, redundant compasses, without the knowledge of using the stars to navigate, having only one malfunctioning compass would be very perilous and could have you sailing into unfriendly territory, with deadly consequences.
@@02markcal Exactly. It was so easy to get lost and die.
This video is fantastic. As a history buff, I've always wondered about the details of these ships. This animation is far and away beyond anything I could've ever expected to see. Well, narrated with such detail as well. I think this video is an immensely successful undertaking not just in the superb graphics but the historical detail of the narration. Your team has set the standard that other such historical accounts must measure themselves against. This is truly a valuable contribution to the body of historical literature. I mean...damn!!!
you aren't a history buff. we're all laughing at you.
"as a history buff"...do you *need* to say this?
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Marcus - Couldn't have said it better myself!
and we have all watched all sailing movies there are and never knew how complex such a ship was ! what a fine video !
As a leisure sailor & having visited & made models of Victory, this is an excellent breakdown of warship. Well done the hours spent in creating this video was well worth it, thank you. Mp
This ship was the pinnacle of high technology for it's time. Every single part of this ship seems to be well thought out and practical.
In many ways... indeed. However a quick history review shows a few boo-boos. On launching the ship listed to starboard significantly. and the lowest gunports were well below the shipwright/architects calculations- only ~4+ feet above the waterline! So gunports had to stay shut in rough weather.
Meh, bulkheads, who needs em
yeah, it like the Chinese repeating crossbow back in Han dynasty, the pinnacle of bow
Only up to recent this always used to be the case, and quality second to none
No surprise that nation which could build the best ships was the strongest on earht at that time.
The amount of engineering and crew know how behind this ship is mind blowing. Your animation is beyond incredible and your knowledge and presentation was out of the park. Thank you. I also loved the humor about the poop deck, that was hilarious. This is truly an amazing and informative video.
I keep thinking that computers are complicated, and that we've reached a point where things are very complicated, but the engineering of such a ship is also very complex and I don't know which is more impressive!!! It opens my eyes to see we have a history of really complex devices spanning centuries, if not millennia. :)
It just helps show that our ancestors were no less resourceful or intelligent than us.
They were just born in a time where we knew less and had less.
Now we know how deforestation began...humans are discussing...but indeed is a great engineering
Well not really all the engineering was developed over time, specialized technologies used from other areas are joined together. The real feat is managing the sailors and everyone happy thus a strong discipline was very stringent, whipping….getting the ship to sail is a big feat but done with training over and over again…..now a lost technology
@@johnkennedysilveira1323if you stop and think about it, the only way to prevent deforestation or today's polution, would have been to keep living in huts and live as simple farmers. Money greed and power are to blame, but then again science and human evolution is inevitable.
I’m blown away, what an absolute masterpice of video. As someone whos always been obsessed with historic ships this is incredible. Please do more!! Greetings from Sweden!
Yes. Next time he should do the vasa ship (1628). Eller hur?
Outstanding effort. I thouroughly enjoyed that, and learned alot.
could not agree more.
Couldn't agree more.
Agreed!!!
I find it very rare to find an actually detail description inside a sailing warship ship. When I looked up interior diagram, most of them are simple and basic.
Not saying that modern warships aren't plenty complicated in their own right, but this video manages to demonstrate the incredible complexity and ingenuity of sailing ships.
When it comes to warships, a phrase comes in mind, the more things change, the more they stay the same, sure in modern warships we have dedicated crew quarters, kitchens and such but a bilge pump and a water condenser and such as well as ammo storage still stays the same.
Plus a random tidbit, despite the invention of brass cartridges when steel hull ships are being built, the cannon shells were dropped and instead are loaded via a block or sack of gunpowder, or another way.
However the same aspect that still stays the same, despite materials and tech that changed, the idea and lay outs are still beyond similar.
Not that much complexity, apart human psycho sending these pretentious toys to destruction.
@@vivianvaldi7871 They are barely tools to settle which country has control of the sea when desirable terms can't be reached through diplomacy.
I could figure out how to build a nuclear reactor before I could figure out how those sails work. Id have one big rope knot trying to set it up hahaha
I already have a hard time wrapping my head around how such a top heavy vessel without a keel and just some ballast wasn't capsizing all the time🤔🧐 😄
Having heard about the weight of the cannons, having seen the wheels of the cannons, you understand how dangerous a "loose cannon" can be in a storm.
Huh, I never made the connection between that saying and ship cannons, but it makes a lot of sense.
Yeah you know, you'd almost be better off in a bad storm, if that cannon were to simply fall overboard. You'd lose a cannon, yes, but you'd save the crew and probably lots of damage!
Skip the rum in me grog 'n I show you a loose canon maityyy!
Amazing animation. I learnt alot watching/listening to this. Well done Lad 👍👍👍
They must have all lost their hearing,firing those canons.
The amount of planning, engineering, and construction for a ship built almost 260 years ago is beyond impressive. This was a thoroughly entertaining video. Thank you for creating it.
Agreed. When I visited the ship (it is at the Naval Dockyard in Portsmouth, England) it was unbelievable to me that such a huge and complex vessel could be made out of wood.
@@mccleod6235 I think a planned vacation from the states, she would be a great destination to visit.
Am I right in thinking the actually grew the oak trees years in advance in the shape of the ship or have I made that up?
as if it's baffling for you to think that people 260 years ago could think, plan and engineer and were not ooga booga cavemen
@@marcusaurelius4941
Have you been to Yorkshire?🤔
It’s not for nothing that they say the difference between prison and a ship is that you won’t drown in prison. It is impossible to imagine how the sailors of old times suffered, being in such conditions for weeks and months, and how devastating this was to their health.
I can recommend a book called The Wager - it depicts the real story of survivors of HMS Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. Really gave me chills to the bone reading the gruesome conditions these people had to endure.
@@Liquination I also love this book.
Not to mention the often brutal physical punishment meted out for even minor infractions.
@@pavelgl5926 The most common reason for a sailor leaving the sea wasn't old age and retirement; it was hernia from overexertion. Just one shorthanded emergency, or unexpected roll of the ship might be a permanent disability pension for the crewman unlucky enough to be alone on a hawser or gun block.
@@Liquination If you enjoyed the Wager you may want to try Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series. Not as good as the Wager (fiction never can be), but well worth a read. I am currently on book 18 of the 20, and boy to I wish I had seen this video before I had started. Amazing model, and descriptions. Thank you so, so much.
Extraordinary. Congratulations on this phenomenal work. I can't imagine the number of hours you devoted to allow us to admire this magnificent ship. Admiral Nelson would be proud of you. I built a wooden model of this warship in my youth, but I had never known her "insides" until tonight. Thank you and all my respect for your fabulous work.
Amazing, explained everything I had questions about.
Couldn't have said it better myself
the density of sailors and equipment packed into that surprisingly complicated ship, and the engineering to do all of that with wood and such, is astounding. I learned so much from this!
I'm so confused. Dealing with stress on metal structures is hard enough. With wood?? and friction? water exposure?
this is just mind-blowing
@@youtubeanything7291 i mean with such a vast storage dedicated to just wood, it kinda makes sense
A wooden ship was flexible and "lived "in its element. The right kinds of wood and basic lubricants and sealants (i.e. tallow and tar) resisted water and weather exposure.
@@youtubeanything7291 We still use wood in many watermanagement applications today. Like in groynes to keep rivers from miandering in corners and near sluice gates or even just to provide support to other wooden structures in case of collision when docking near them minimalising damaga to ships, just to name a few.
The thing with proper wood you have to deal with mostly has to do with oxidation. The layer that might be both in and out of the water at certain times. This can be managed by regulating the water level and treating and of course properly maintaining those structures.
Here in the Netherlands, river sluice gates are made of out wood some of the time to this day. I've personally even visited a company that made one for a sluice in Zaandam once some years ago. I have pictures somewhere, but they were something like 10 meters or 30 feet in height.
It's still something reliable as a material, similar to steel depending on the application. Just like wood, steel needs to be treated and maintened properly. It's not a one for all purposes wonder-material.
On top of that, determining the strength on the characteristics of some wooden structure is not that different from the difficulty the strength of pouring, casting, soldering, welding etc would be. It takes knowledge and tools either way.
Hope this gave you some insight. If you really want to dive deep, look up some stuff about material mechanics. :)
@@LSR303 that's some dense infos! thanks! can you tell me how they manage to prolong the wood at the point where they hook the beefy ropes of anchors? They literally pull it while sliding rope into wood. That's so much pressure..
Not sure who to admire more - the shipbuilders from four centuries ago or the maker of this video. Excellent work both of you!
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Hear! Hear! 👏👏
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist9 wow. I saw 1:11 on my phone earlier and thought that had to be a scripture. Thanks
I admire sailors living there for months
Well said - excellent documentary. Makes the History channel look like hogwash...
As a current sailor, this makes me so grateful for the advancement of modernity. This ship is so complex it's disgusting. To pivot from one type of action to another seems like a daunting task. It seems like everything would be busy all the time. So many things must be manipulated deliberately that there's little room for error. I can't imagine the precision the crew must have practiced. I'm very grateful for modern winches, the bermuda rig, slide tracks, and construction strong enough to allow for dedicated use of spaces.
Wow, as a model shipbuilder who is currently building the HMS Victory from plans acquired from the British Maritime Museum this video is invaluable as a great resource to further understand the plans. Incredible work was spent making this video. Respects and much appreciation for this hard work! Subscribed.
I'm on a similar quest. Not a scratch build, but the Corel 1:98 scale kit. I did the main mast cross section (also Corel at the same scale) a couple of decades ago. I've got quite a few books regarding the naval architecture of the Victory, complemented by hundreds of photos I took of her during a visit to Portsmouth. What I like about this video is that it provides a very thorough, yet digestible, description of the ships construction, function and operation. Extremely well done.
Are you going to post build videos? I know they're alot of us that would love to see the process/progress.
@sandra huntington Totally correct 👍🏴
@sandra huntington ooof... i touched a nerve there.... do you see i am also typing this all in lowercase ? there is also a space between the 'e' and that question mark..... i am also using many ellipsis ..... do you shout in public to get your point across ? i know many karens that do that .. . . . . . ...
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@@John_Krone This made my day 🤣
Ok, so this is completely mind-blowing. The level of engineering that goes into building one of these things is simply amazing. So incredibly complex!
Battle of Trafalgar France and Spain. Lost 21
The "fire buckets" were actually filled with sand to throw onto blood, which became very slippery during battle.
@@2pugman that's fascinating yet horrifying
Even more amazing when you realize they designed it without modern technology of any sort to help. Their only drafting tools were a quill pen, ink and parchment.
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They had both PAPER and LEAD PENCILS (hollow wood tubes molten lead had been poured into, graphite came much later) at the time Victory was designed/built. Possibly more remarkable was that initial design work was done by CARVING a "half model" of one side of a ship hull, then that physical model was translated into building a whole ship's hull.
It is amazing how advanced these ships really were even hundreds of years ago.
YES
And it is amazing, how advanced and detailed this perfect 3D animation is! 👌🏻
The Western World soon at its peak in term of power and wealth…
Very expensive to build and operate also. Would love to have seen it in action, what a show. Wouldn't want to stay on one but, to be on board to see, hear and smell the fury of those guns, would be incredible.
They were the most advanced equipment of their time
I love how you present fact with no bias- I’m sure the temptation to speak your opinion is huge! And at times I find I would love your opinion. I respect your dedication to providing information without slant. Super impressive. Thank you.
Its a ai generated voice
@@sebaschan-uwu Are you A.I.? What kind of artificially dumb comment is that? "Its a ai generated voice" Even Stephen Hawking needed a text to speech. The text to speech doesn't have a mind of its own. Like if Stephen put "2+2=9" it doesn't just interpret that as "The universe is expanding...". lol
And i'm not even convinced that your irrelevant statement is even true anyway. Just because he's talking in a professional presentating manner doesn't mean it must be A.I. And trust me i've seen all those movie recap channels. If this voice actually happens to be generated, then i'd have to say it's pretty realistic to the point that you can't even tell. There's a reason to present a voice this way. It's the reason we write scripts. To just give all the relevant information needed and not have any "uhm"s in the narration.
The OP was simply talking about the lack of bias in his narration. That's nothing to do with the voice. It could've been text on screen even.
But also about the OP's comment, i don't see why he'd expect there to be bias anyway. Like was he expecting him to condemn history or something? That's not the point of the video. It's to just see how an incredible old age ship worked. You don't have to bring up the politics of the time when explaining how every invention was made. "Yes they invented fire, but do you know what these barbaric caveman went on to use it for? Cooking the animals. Dastardly, i do say." lol
"And at times I find I would love your opinion.". That's a pretty wild assumption. lol
This was absolutely amazingly done. Do not let disparaging criticisms dampen your gift please. This is the absolute pinnacle of "shipology" documentaries. Thank you
"Disparaging criticisms?" Where?
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Spectacular depiction of a ship of the line. I cant even begin to imagine the effort it took to lay this before us. Many many thanks.
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This 'virtual' tour of HMS Victory is a phenomenal teaching aid. Brought up in the south of England, I've had the privilige of visiting the Victory a few times. She is in dry dock in Portsmouth, Hampshire. This 'virtual' tour makes you realise how much design and craftsmanship went into making a 'ship of the line' like this. Thanks for the eye-opening 'tour'. Much appreciated.
Thank you to the content creator here! I am an older man and I love learning things in my later years as it makes time pass. This was fantastically done and very easy to follow. I cannot convey my appreciation enough. Thank you again! I wish the very best of health and happiness to you all and also to your families!
We actually tend to forget that those ships were engineering marvels. It is crazy to see the amount of work that went into that, and the end result was just astounding. So cool to actually see a ship layer by layer and understand the science behind it.
Absolutely, highly recommend checking out the salvaged warship Vasa at the museum w/ the same name n Stockholm if you ever have the chance. A 17th century Swedish empire warship. Really impressive to be able to see one IRL and how gigantic it was.. A real beauty & behemot. Like you said, so much effort and hard work went into these projects..
@@LyricalSteeler lmao i agree but Vasa sailed like 1300 meters and sank 💀
@@peterpopovics9901 Haha yeah, makes it even better. A good story of legend.. Vasa was just one of several vessels that were built in similar size to Vasa but the others never got the intricate design choices meant to be flashy and impressive flag ship style. Amount of cannons differed. Anyway, great museum! love that kind of stuff!
It really is an astounding engineering work of art.
thats what happens when aliens help people out+
As a sailor, it was quite an amazing thing to watch how vessels were operated back then. I was particularly surprised at how much weight those ships carried. Great video :)
And one little mishap down she goes.
@@mrshmanckles1463 I'm going to watch it again and this time add up all the weights that are mentioned. Be interesting to see what the figure is. Gives the term 'in irons' a completely different meaning. I've been in irons on a sailboat, mostly during training sessions, but all we had to do was ease the main sheet completely and push the boom out. Or ease the jib and pull it out the side by hand to catch water ever bit of wind was there. Can you imagine being in irons in a ship like that, in the middle of a battle?
@@crystalblueocean i believe it might be 3500 tons or something like that
IKR! I thought these things were like 5 tones at most!
@@mrshmanckles1463 not really, those ships are almost unsinkable. only a powder magazine detonation would take it down. If you read the accounts of the battle of Trafalgar, some ships of the line went back to port with tremendous damages including below the waterline but were still floating.
Amazing work guys! As a young kid in the 1960s I could only dream of books or films with such details, it's like a dream come true. Thank you for such a real treat :)
Dream come true ?? Seriously, how long have you been awaiting said dream ?? 🤔🙄
I sometimes wonder how different my life would be had I access to the vast information of the web when I was growing up in the 70s, I remember card catalogs at the library, and if it wasn't taken out, still in readable condition, some books just aren't as user friendly as the information forms on the web for a visual learner.
@@jimmyohara2601 Sounds like this video presentation was so detailed his dreams happened 3 days ago.
@@02markcal what about how different for persons living in the 1870's having a vast internetwork web ??
why just you in your era ?? 🤔🤐
@@jimmyohara2601 My posting was in response to the original comment about the person growing up in the 60s, only dreaming of the details put into books/movies as this video had, but my comment can apply to all past generations.
wow dude. as a mariner myself, its fantastic to see such an in depth and accurate walk through. thanks and congrats
Ships are not my main point of interest, but I gave it a try. As an engineer I loved the technical details and the calm presentation which allowed me to appreciate the giant amount of thought and hundrets of years of engineering experiene that went into these ships. Thank you for this nice unagitated video that made my day already much better. Maybe, you created a Ship-Fan, because now I want to know more 🙂
I think if the designers and builders of The Victory could see this video they would appreciate it more than words can even describe. Great work!
I don't think they would give a fuck tbh xD
My dad worked on it👍👍👍
@@Mvb91 epic troll bro
Yea they wouldn't, they don't even know what a video is. Once explained they would propably appreciate it, and think it's nice how someone spend time on working out one of their designs so far in the future, but "appreciate it more than words can even describe"? Hell no.
This video wasn't their life purpose.
They just did their job and designed a ship.
They probably designed a ton of projects in their lifetime. They would care a lot more about suddenly being 200+ years in the future and finding out how the world developed, how history went down, how their distant family is doing and what new technologies are around.
@@Mvb91 okay so if you’re childhood home was reconstructed down to the foundation, up to the completed home, you wouldn’t be in awe? You’re probably 14 so you live in your childhood home. When you grow up you’ll understand
The copper hull plating was mainly a defence against the dreaded 'toredo worm'. The salt water equivalent of wood worm. It could literally eat away the lower hull causing the ship to sink without warning. It also discouraged other marine growths like barnacles and similar, which slowed the ship down. The first copper plates were fixed with iron nails. But immersed in acidic salt water it formed a simple battery with the copper. Causing the iron to both rust and be eaten away. And the copper plates all fell off. Later fixings used copper rivets.
great info!
Read that as "torpedo worm", and had a great visual image 😅
Thought you where going to say the decrepit British government ❤😂😂😂. I would of thumbs up that❤😂👍
The British to the English is same as soviets to the Russians 👍
@@macgonzo i reas it the same way
The amount of engineering that goes into building and operating one of these ships is simply astounding. I don't think there are other wind powered devices that even remotely come close to this complexity.
Hundreds of years of trial and error. All errors and vulnerabilities are documented and improved upon in the next model. Whether that be be weapons system logistics, cordage that’s easier for the crew to handle, food storage techniques, and new chemical technology, it’s just amazing.
You did an incredible job with this video, especially if ships aren't your specialty. As a sailor, I'm pleasantly surprised by how incredibly popular this video is! 1.6 MILLION views in FIVE days!? Bravo. 👏🏻
Yeah, on this channel views skyrocket once released
Sailor?
@@johnqpublic2718 someone who sails?
It’s also great for falling asleep
@@evanthornton2606 People of low intellect typically get bored when listening this type of content.
In the director’s commentary for “Master and Commander”, they describe the ships/navy of the time as the equivalent of NASA. This video helps make clear just how advanced everything was. You’ve made an incredibly valuable teaching companion to one of my favorite films. Thank you! 🙏
That's pretty freaking insightful. In the 1700s there were still whole landmasses western humanity was only vaguely aware of.
It's crazy to think about the materials of the time and how well they were used.
NASA for hatred of the French ... "get the 68 pounders on the foredeck" , point blank 34kg canon ball directly at a Frenchman
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 la poupe
Underrated comment. Top comment on this video totally misses the point. This is high tech performance for what it is.
@@MrSimonw58 ... Mon cher Monsieur...pourquoi??
800+ crew... I'm a former submariner and I still can't even imagine living for months on end under such crowded conditions. Great video, by the way.
Yeah that's crazy, huh? And there are only about 6 "seats of ease", which seriously means, if you do the math and exclude the officers...it's like 10 minutes per man, per toilet seat in any given 24 hour period. So, you probably had to wait in line to take a shit, and you had 10 minutes on average, to get it done. Now that's pressure.
The excellence of this video comes from your careful hearing the sensible organization of the ship's design speaking to you
I am moved to tears, thank you
As someone who’s in the process of learning to operate vastly more modern ships today and has a latent interest in the design and operations of old sail vessels, this video has been one of the most concise and informative I have come across. Thank you greatly for your research and presentation.
Also I’m very glad my job has very little to do with walking around a capstan
nor friggin in the riggin on the good ship Venus. Do they still have a cat-o'-nine-tails?
@@satyris410 not as far as I’ve found, mostly just very poorly arranged plumbing
Have you found the "Golden Rivet" yet? 😁
@@flym0 I’d be surprised if we had one, considering the ship‘s welded, but I did send some unfortunate deckies on a quest for the sea chest key
@@walterkennedy9474 Something we used to get the junior (Royal Navy) sailors hunting for. Always best to get the stokers onboard with the game first...
This is the kind of content, YT was made for. Absolutely awesome and unique, got my sub immediately.
in contrast to goofy youtube shorts videos
I like both types of videos.
Same
Amazing. Your video is one of the best I’ve seen since the internet became accessible. Your articulations on all subjects are first class, giving even the non sailors a helpful, rudimentary understanding of the concepts on the boat design and functions. I was even starting to imagine what it might feel like to be each of the different ranking crew members. I’m blown away by this video. Thank you for creating it. ❤
Wow, the modelling, animation, narration, writing, and flow of this had me captivated from the get go. Really nice work. Very informative and the information flows wonderfully. This is some of the better stuff I've seen in a while.
I am astounded at the level of detail and information you are able to communicate about a ship so quickly and clearly. this is the best video of its type that I have seen.
Brilliant! Truly excellent! I’ve learned more in 25 mins than 40 yrs of looking at Victory. 😊👍
Excellently clear graphics, steady, accurate voice-over, and a pace that is easy to follow without becoming tedious.
I don’t remember anything as good for . . . well, ever! I cannot praise you enough. Thank you.
This is amazing. They should show this in museums to bring the experience to life
I concur. I've actually been on the HMS Victory (on which this video is based) and while impressed, I'd have been even more so with such a demonstration as shown in this vid.
It's a bit big to show this IN a museum. 😄 A bit too big.
I like the the cut of your jib
Why are you doing this to me?
@@davoostergotland5160 I never meant to cause you trouble and I, I never meant to do you wrong and I, well if I ever caused you trouble. Oh no, I never meant to do you harm.
As an architect who has been making 3D models of buildings for 30 years I really do appreciate you work and effort! Outstanding modelling and visualization skills and great presentation! Thank you!
This channel is gonna be an absolute monster one day soon. Incredible work. Keep it up. 👊
It's inspiring to see you think so :) My brother and I aren't really into the "growth at all costs" model of modern business, so I imagine the channel will grow slow and steady. But I'm happy to have us all along for the ride! :D
@@animagraffs I think slow and steady is good as I think it is stressful to try and work to the algorithm
With this astounding level of quality you are bound for greatness.
Wow I can’t imagine how much work went in to creating that animation. Thanks for sharing!
Nothing to say but BRAVO
I can’t imagine the amount of work that goes into making animations of this quality. Thank you for all your hard work, this one is simply stunning. I’ve visited HMS Victory in Portsmouth several times and wish I could have seen this first.
And the time needed for writing, recording and editing the video.
I was thinking the same, and it's a testament to the power of independent content creators. The quality of this is superior to something that you'd see on a mainstream TV channel just 10 years ago.
I love to see a subject get the treatment it deserves. That ship -- this video. The high level of skill and sheer hard work that went into both the ship, and this video. Appropriate, worthy, impressive as hell. BRAVO!!!
The Victory was the intercontinental ballistic missile of its day. You have done us a greater service than any other video available of this masterpiece. It must have taken a HUGE effort on your part, but well worth it to us! Thank you!
This is brilliant. I've read a lot of material on these ships and studied cutaway drawings, but this 3D flyaround adds a whole new level to assist the viewer's comprehension. Excellent work.
This is one of the most fascinating videos I've ever seen on UA-cam. The ships had such intricate and well designed systems--and your graphics capture them entirely. Well done.
Absolutely great video!!
No fluff, opinions or irrelevant facts to fill time. Just accurate concrete info about the build.
Too many creators fill their videos with irrelevant verbal trash.
Thank you for doing an amazing job!!
Former FMF Corpsman here. Spent 7 years in the Navy. Nothing but respect and admiration for this generation of sailors, and those before. Those men must have been tough as nails.
Fleet Marine Force
Especially if they had to survive on rotting food infested with weevils....
It really is crazy what these guys had to put up with to keep the ship running
@Clone683 Can't imagine just the smell of 800 sweaty dudes all laying in hammocks on one deck. No shower on board.
@@largol33t1 "In the service, one must always choose the lesser of two weevils." Name that Movie.
I have nothing but wow to add to this. How cool is this? I had absolutely no clue how these old ships worked. It's stunning how well organized they had these things running back then. Amazing stuff!
This is an absolutely fabulous animation but, the animation is only a part of it. The vast amount of knowledge you've imparted via this incredibly great animation is, if I may properly use this word, AMAZING!!!!! Thank you so much for this magnificent creation and sharing with everyone! The overall complexity of designing, building and, ultimately operating a ship of this caliber is a totally different story in itself. Thank you again.
Magnificent work my friend! We salute you 🎉
I remember as a kid looking at books with cross-section pictures of old warships and being amazed at it. This feels exactly like those old books, so much information packed into the video! Thanks for making it.
Regarding the anchors:
Simply raising the anchors was comparably easy to do. Problems started when you wanted to leave an anchorage under adverse wind-conditions.
In this case you had to raise on anchor, load it onto the launch and row the launch out to sea. There you dropped the anchor from the launch and allowed it to sink to the bottom. Now you hauled in the anchor you just dropped, while carefully allowing the other anchorcable to go slack. That way you dragged your ship out to sea. You now used the launch to raise the original anchor, move it even further out to sea, drop it and start the whole process anew until you could safely raise sails. This process was called 'warping' and was several hours of gruesome labour.
Warp-speed was neither fast nor pleasant back in the days.
great comment
Interesting fact and etymology.
Haha. Ive done this by hand on small boats throwing the anchor ahead. It definitely isn't fun.
Warping was not always used, more often than not the ship was towed out by a specially designed rowing barge. Warping was used only when departure could not wait for Mother Nature’s winds/tides. Phillip K Allan, Andrew Wareham & Chris Durbin are British novelists that have written great historical books on the British Navy in the 18th & 19th centuries; chock full of naval life, methods, tactics & procedures.
I've done it with my little sailboat but always called it kedging?
I'm completely dumbfounded by the incredible detail of both the ship and this video. I have no idea how many months was spent making this, but thank you so much. It's amazing.
I am thoroughly impressed by the detail and accuracy of this diagram! Well done! I have never before seen anything so informative on these ships. I have a new appreciation of the people who designed, built and manned these beasts!
Wow. Just, wow. So much detail and such a deep knowledge of the subject at hand. I’m really impressed not only by your work, but also by the engineering that allowed this class of ship to float and fight. It’s a work of art through and through. For the time the Victory was built, it was truly a marvel of human design.
I don't often feel compelled to leave a comment but I need to express how impressive this video is, with its excellent narration and high-quality animation, as well as being informative and fascinating. Awesome content. Off to check out the rest of your channel now.
Wonderful explanation. Well done Sir. This is by far the best show of the Interior of a ship and how it works I've seen...... and I'm a life long sailor, 50+ years, professional model ship builder and Nautical museum curator for the past 29 years! Thank you, new subscriber.
This is amazing!
It's not just the information, it's how easy you make it to comprehend it all. I love seeing the structure of the ship right from scratch to all the details and rooms.
Thank you so much for producing these! I love old Hornblower movies, stories like Master & Commader and learning about the arctic expeditions of the 19th century, and of course it helps a lot to understand the working of these ships.
I've always been amazed by all the work and resources that went into building these ships, and also by the weird human tendency to build something as impressive as this, and then to go and use it, of course, to blow each other up.
Thank you so much for producing something that's fascinating and informative (and also very unlikely to be used to blow somebody up). 🙂😉
The amount of efforts you have taken for this video is astounding. Thank you 😊
Could not agree more. Prize worthy
I’ve been on that ship so many times (my grandfather knew the curator many years ago and no matter how busy it was I never queued once), but still there are things about it that surprise me every now and then. Last time, about ten years ago, I got to wander around without a guide and that was truly a great moment. Right after that my boss (a second sea lord, SAM for those in the know), it was once his ship and he said it was always interesting holding a banquet on it
This is an amazing video. I think I learned more from this video than from anything else that I have ever watched on UA-cam. Those ships were so wonderfully designed with not a foot of wasted space. It's hard to believe that something like that could be engineered over 200 years ago. Thanks again for your hard work in creating this excellent video.
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Seeing this video and watching Master and Commander just work so well together to get a full picture of just how incredible engineering and effort must have gone into running the ships
Wooden ship
That was beautifully done. You concentrated on a particular aspect, and ghosted the rest of the model so well. And then transitioned to the next item without jarring the viewer experience. I'm so impressed at your skill, not just on the technical depiction, but on the way you used just what was necessary to provide the relevant teaching. Truly well done.
So interesting. I'm blown away by the engineering, the design, pure art and genius combined.
I have never seen such attention to detail and such high quality animation on some particular subject. This is really impressive
Your work reminds me of some old books like “Incredible Cross-sections” by Stephen Biesty’s, but the much modern and better version of it.
As a child in the 80s/90s, books like these fascinated me. I can say that they were a huge influence in my formation as an adult and in becoming an engineer myself.
I truly hope your videos can inspire newer engineering generations to come. I wish I could see what kinds of things they will create in the future. Engineering is really a passion of mine, and this thought really warms my heart :)
Keep up the good work!
Ps: This video was my “gateway drug” to all of your other videos ;)
I'm missing part two for the explanation of the different ship parts.
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I was revisiting Biesty's Man-of-War book - also featuring HMS Victory, or at least an unnamed stand-in - after watching this wonderful video, and I find that the two are excellent companions! Whereas the video moves from the hold upwards, the book moves from bow to stern, offering its information mostly thematically and populating its cross-sections with all sorts of vignettes.
I played "Return of the Obra Dinn" recently, and it was a good opportunity to educate myself on sailing ships and how they work. I'd been especially curious about the rigging, so the last section of the video was one of the most interesting for me; I had also been confused about the messenger rope until seeing here how it worked. Most informative!
The amount of work and skill that has gone into presenting something this complex in such a clear and accessible way is astonishing.
As an owner/sailor of a 55’ yacht here in Hong Kong, which is quite a bit to handle, my mind is BLOWN by the complexity of this vessel. What an amazing thing to have built, nearly 200 years ago, all from natural materials. 800 crew! OMG!
Well done to Animagraffs too, for a superb lesson! Thank you, it’s been an experience !
What an amazing video. So much work has gone into this model, not to mention the research. You seem kind of down about the audio but even as an audio engineer it was barely a distraction because the content was so incredible! The video feels like something you would find in a top quality 5 star museum. The lack of a sponsored message interruption helps to give it this feel btw. Great work.
This is the most comprehensive video on an old sailing ship that I have ever watched. Narrated clearly and fully understood, the graphics are also brilliantly accompanying the narration. thank you for this video.
As someone who loves sailing ships and military history, especially naval stuff, this was such a blast and joy to watch!! Thanks for this awesome educational video :D I saw your comment mentioning that you were upset about how the audio turned out but I barely noticed it at all! Amazing video
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Wow, this is nothing like what I expected. I had no idea how incredible the design and engineering of these ships were. I had to rewind when the cargo hold weights were listed to make sure I was hearing it right.
Remarkable isn't it. I always wondered how old ships carried enough food for each man aboard. I never even thought about how many men might be on there though. It's all completely incredible, and I think I'm going to watch it again this evening.
This is seriously the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. In a short amount of time you like educated me to so many things I knew nothing about, and I generally consider myself an intelligent person. I love what you do! How interesting this ship is, makes me wonder about so many old or ancient mechanisms that are considered to be simple yet in reality are so well thought out and complex. Keep up the great work.
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Poop deck lol
This is a beautiful piece of art illustrating what I’ve read about for my entire life. Starting with the Horatio Hornblower books as a teenager and then reading many different series all based on 18th century British (and other nationalities) Naval warfare I struggled to envision what the ships looked like. This vessel you illustrate here was referred to as a “ship of the line”. Most of the heroes of the fictional books I read sailed frigates, or larger cutters but Hornblower did finally walk the quarter deck of a ship of the line. Your illustration brought all of these books to greater life. It is very easy to see how every day life on a ship of the line would progress. The details of your research is very impressive. While many of the facts presented in this illustrative video were known to me, some were not. I had no idea that the anchors were so large and that the ship carried so many. Also, I could not picture the ‘tween decks areas clearly but your video opened up that part of the ship. It would be easy to continue commenting on the many details illustrated in your video but I just want to say congratulations for bringing this part of naval history to life. Bravo!
Ship of the Line is short for "Ship of the Line of Battle", so Battleship isn't wrong, although not as common in the period. Later on they dropped the "SotL" part as battleships were gradually given front-firing or turret-based guns and thus did not need to stay in a line to give effective fire as much.
I just realized that he actually has a red glow on the port side and a green glow on the starboard side. Pretty cool detail.
VERY impressive indeed! You did a beautiful job allowing us to tour Victory vicariously. Thank you so very much for this Animagraff!
Why a duck ?
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HOLY BILGE RAT Captain! I never realized how complex these old sailing vessels were! Thanks for this impressive presentation!
In 1966 using my paper route earnings, I purchased and assembled a Revell©️ plastic model of this amazingly engineered vessel. This model was one of two equally treasured ones of my childhood-the second being the Boeing B17 bomber hanging from the ceiling light of my bedroom then. Now as much as I treasured my humble little plastic “homage” , I never really studied the complex functions of the Victory, but merely focused on the more readily available history of it. So, this is such a treat, so informative, visually rich and downright creative. You have edified me “marvelous much!” I thank you. (P.S. Perhaps you will entertain creating a similar video about the B17, yes?) Thanks again.
No one asked.
Very good, I had the same models (and many more…) but I was rubbish at painting them. Really cool of this video to remind me of all those funny little parts names. I’ve been on the actual ‘Victory’ a few times and there isn’t much headroom on that lower gun deck. A dark and scary place for the men who ‘worked’ there.
Absolutely incredible! I’ve been working on a model of the Victory for a couple years now and this walkthrough has given me some great continual inspiration! Thank you very much for your hard work!
The 3 D and transparent rendering of the Victory is phenomenal . Your video is a great insight as to how these ships actually work . The 18th century engineers and builders really thought the process through . Even though these ships where formidable and deadly they were the height of technology in that day . The design of these ships where beautiful .
Stunning. I can't imagine how a designer was able to put such a complex structure together so that it could function efficiently. in war. I have visited the Victory 3 times in the last 60 years and got the standard tour, but I learned more about it from your video in half an hour than from all of the visits.
It becomes a lot easier to understand when you realise that every ship is a slight itteration of an older ship.
sure! its just perfect!
I think it was decades or even centuries of improvements over time which those designers studied and then implemented or improved even further. It wasn't like 1 person thought all of this over 1 week (simply put) .
Visited Portsmouth and the Historic dockyard in April. Victory is undergoing a deep restoration / preservation with a special exhibit where you can see the outside during it's repair. The size of the timbers is mind blowing. Took us 4 days to see all the different museums/ships at the Dockyard. Victory, Warrior, Mary Rose, Alliance, RN museum, weapons museum, boat house, dock tour by water. Was fantastic and highly recommended.
Yes, the naval dockyards and HMS Victory (even in refurb) is a must visit for everyone. I visited in 1974, when I was on a Royal Navy Seamanship for Youth Course. I’ll never forget the surgeon’s deck which was painted red…so sailors couldn’t see the blood. When you see the rudimentary instruments used in those days you can understand why carpentry was such a big thing!
How cool would it be to have an animation like this as you're doing the tours, helping to visualize how the small part you're seeing in person goes into the full operation of the ship.
Wow,I'm so envious of your tour it sounds so interesting, I wish I could be that lucky to visit
oh my god, if this existed when I was a teen I would for sure have watched this a hundred times. Thank you for this amazing extremely detailed video. All the items are fascinating and shows how much thought they put into ship building. I love you
This piece of work itself should be in the Smithsonian! Immensely informative and easy to understand. How long did it take to research and produce this masterpiece?
as animator, I can say this work of months, even years.
The video itself? I could see it taking months
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I say months, not years. Likely a crew of people who work on this, not just a single person
My brother Wesley dug up the research and assembled a brief for me to take from there. We usually buy the outer shell of the ship/vehicle if there's one available that's accurate enough, but even with that they're always wildly inaccurate and need a TON of work.
Everything inside, and much of the rigging specifics, I also built myself. It takes about 2 months once I get the project. But no, it's not a team of people doing 3D. It's just me! That's why the animation style doesn't have the cinematic grit and whatnot, there's just no time for that when pinpoint accuracy is the goal.
At this point I've authored 3,000+ lines of code in my custom tool set that integrates into Blender 3D (the software I use). So I'm getting very efficient at this workflow, and tackling things that were really hard with those first big projects. It feels damn good to press into such massive projects and actually pull it off!!
@@animagraffs thank you for your passionate dedication to helping others understand how these ancient vessel's traversed the world seas.
This animation was absolutely amazing. The detail. The descriptions. My god. A piece of art displaying a piece of …..art.
Fun fact, the bitts (the wooden pieces the anchor cable attaches to) is where we get the term "to the bitter end" ie to release the entire anchor cable to the end attached to the bitt.
This is a magnificent animated lesson! Thank you so much. I had a general notion after years of reading Patrick O'Brian and other historical works, but this video filled in and clarified lots of very vague bits of my understanding. I appreciate your work very much.