A 17th Century Cannon Ball Deals a Lot of Damage
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- Опубліковано 15 кві 2020
- A modern day recreation of a 17th century cannon capable of firing a single nine pound shot reveals the devastation it can wreak on a ship’s hull - not to mention the crew.
From the Series: World of Weapons: War at Sea bit.ly/2xeTU9y - Розваги
Some poor child is going to be very upset that Smithsonian used their fort for target practice!!
No! My swingset!
Sad to say these Smithsonian vids cost more money, but are less informative and insightful as what UA-camrs are out here doing on shoestrings.
Yes I am and I can't rebuild it
wrrr
Lol
nah if i was the kid i'd appreciate the aesthetic
Note to self:
Do not buy the IKEA pirate ship with trundle bed option....will not stand up to rough housing
Roughhousing is fundamental in piracy and timber shivering
Also it will not stand up to mortar fire
This video could have been about how effective a Sherman cannon was against other tanks by shooting it at a regular car.
😂
Well, that would work shooting through the engine block with AP. Albeit, it wouldn’t be great for anything else, but, the engine block is a large, solid thing.
Let’s just get a whole car to destroy
@@atua9969 cars are cheap
So, awesome but doesn’t really give the full picture?
“To a ship of the period” 0:34 😂😂
What was your first thought? When I saw it - double bed from Ikea, kids size :)
That killed me
What?? Never seen the HMS Balsa Wood?
The target is too flimsy. Looks like it’s pine
Worse yet, it's white pine.
Right, those old ships were made from 6" thick 500 year old oak trees. Old ironsides was named for cannon balls bouncing off its hull.
We’ll yeah they’re not gonna go buy ship grade timber to break it
@@zilfondel It repelled small carronade shot.... USS Consitutions sister ships all faired poorly during the war of 1812. The live oak is always overplayed and no one ever mentions the numerous faults to live oak. It could NOT beat a ship of the line unless the captain was really rubbish nor a large long cannoned frigate.
Right !
Went straight to the comments as soon as I saw the title.
Am not disappointed.
"if you look at the gunport it's actually damaged the gun port"
*doesnt show gunport*
ah yes very damaged.
You can actually. At around 1:20, the barrel breaks some of the wood around it as it recoils.
Really telling as to how much effort and care went into this that they built a gun port not fit for their gun and then didn't show the consequences directly.
1:02
He built the cannon and firing range in his backyard. Unfortunately, his kids’ ship playhouse had to be the target.
Cannon size Still small compare Sri pattani cannon in south east Asia. Nobody test this cannon in modern era.
Shiver me timbers!
And now you know the origin of that expression. :o
When he held up the splinter I literally said "shiver me timbers" and then I look at the comments and see you.
Blue blistering barnacles.
Ouch!! me boat hole hurts.
It's shiver me splinters. Duh!
"ThatsuhLottaDAMIDGE!!!!"
Big Herm errrrhhhh
How bout a little more
I was thinking about that when I found this video lol
I was looking for this comment.
What quality was the shot? Was it period metal or modern?
What quality/thickness was the wood on the ship? It looked very green and not that thick.
there are no trees today that can make the same effective ships as theyre were hundreds of years ago so it doesnt really matter
@@turtleman7806 what do you mean by that? That since there's no need for such thick wood for ship armor, those trees aren't farmed anymore?
@@nostahex more like we chopped them all down and there's none left
@@nostahex trees back then grew a lot slower so they were much more dense even Pine had very close rings
@Omar Khurshid look at us now, meddling about how some worthless wood is apparently "precious." No wonder the human species has stopped advancing, we can't stop caring about worthless nothings these days
I watched a cannonade by Mott's Artillery at Monmouth Battlefield in 1991. They fired round shot and canister. It was pretty amazing that you could see the cannonballs bounce along as if they were rubber, and the swishing sounds they made. It took nerves of steel to face artillery in linear warfare.
That "ships" planking looks unrealistically thin.
and no oak
They also tested the effectiveness of a Roman pilum, calling it an 'unmatched ranged weapon', against Germanic shields by throwing one at a shield made of plywood with no hide covering lol
@@BrandydocMeriabuck Aren't pila infamous for bending when thrown against shields, to encumber the enemy?
@@boid9761 They’re famous for piercing them, apparently being very effective against shield walls which would pin them together. Honestly I can believe that they would often pierce shields when thrown by very strong men, and I can believe they would also bend sometimes and be difficult to get out. But if people are going to demonstrate it they’re going to need to test properly before confirming the obviously biased sources
@@BrandydocMeriabuck The Romans are notorious for glamorizing everything their favor so I definitely agree. Although, there could be some truth about it. We do need to be careful with historical sources.
As with the cannon, aren't there ships with reinforced hulls Meant to resist or even withstand cannon fire?
That wooden "ship" is SO thin that I could throw that ball thru the side.
Like to see it
@@johnkurtz7705 Money talks
You couldn’t throw it threw dry wall
@@uncleartax Wanna see? Send me your address
through*
"stop blowing holes in my ship!"
~Captain Jack Sparrow~
‘17th century cannon deals a lot of damage’
In other revolutionary news, water is deemed to be wet
oh boy, someone seemed to have brought up the question "is water wet"
Something something flex tape
They should make a Cannon out of Flex Tape
When you're talking about large warships the "splinters" won't be those "tiny" things that stick in your skin. They will be up to 1.5 - 2.0 inches in diameter and 2 feet long, as the timbers are torn to shreds. Edit: the planks would be about 8 inches thick in two layers sitting on 18 inch - 24 inch thick/wide timbers about 18 inches apart.
bitsnpieces11, you would also have to account for the water that might be entering the ship
@@redshift8696 usually the cannon would not be aimed below the water line. Gun crews would aim to incapacitate the other ship rather then sink it. You'd prefer to capture the ship and add it to your own navy right?
Tis but a scratch
@@joepvanderven4882 That only works if you have the appropriate wood workers and carpenters on board to fix the ship. If you're in the middle of a naval engagement, simple incapacitation isn't worthwhile.
Lol try 6 feet long and made of oak, which is knife- sharp when split like that. Splinter would literally cut off legs arms and heads.
Now imagine not being 50m away with ear protections, but in a closed space with other cannons next to you firing at the same time as yours...
I'm grateful to have been born in a era when as a boy I had a newspaper round rather than the times young boys were powder monkeys
WHAT DID YOU SAY???
deaf af
I see why they needed to bull horns to hear now
wouldn't be as loud actually. The cannon was mostly outside of the ship
You would expect the Smithsonian, a billion dollar institution, to have a more comprehensive, accurate and informative production than unaffiliated hobbyists on UA-cam.
They a;l get their info from the same place
I'm curious to know what this guy got wrong.
I mean hobbyists are often the only experts on a lot of these niche fields
Also all his info was good, what's the problem?
His info was good so I don’t know what you are talking about.
@@THall-vi8cp Ships were built with massive oak timbers, they were as much armored fortresses as they were cannon carriers. I doubt a 9 lb ball does much at all after having to go through 18 inches of oak.
Terrible camera work and angles. Show impact, show the mentioned damaged gun port, slow motion , show back side of target. So many missed opportunities.
Agreed, very disappointed
How you doin’?
@@crispinjulius5032 OOOF
Where's your cannon Alyssa ?
The video was too short . Another 2 minutes and more visual i formation would be available .
Now imagine being the guys who had to stand right next to it. Every conversation: “WHA!?!?!”
Alternate title: how to ruin a kids playground
I can't believe they didn't have cameras in the target to get the effect of the impact. What a wasted oppotunity.
Not only that, they shouldve made a test were the guy stands right in front of the cannon to show how a humans body would react to it
I didn’t want to see the exit wound, anyway. I’m really glad you kept the thickness of the mock hull a secret. Top notch production values.
Lol
Embarassing a bit isn't it...
🙄
Insane to think that by ww1 artillery range was more than 20 miles.
That affected international boundaries, too: By 1812, it was becoming "Convention" that nations claimed control over the sea that their Artillery could command: 3 miles, max, at the time. Some few counties still observe the "3-mile limit"; most don't, going with 20-miles established by artillery in the early 20th Century. And SOME claim sovereignty over some 200 miles from their shore - the range of a typical ground-to-ground/sea Missile.
300 Years difference. So, Not so insane fact..
@Charlie Vetsworth That translates to 100YM in metric if I'm not mistaken.
That was wwii standard range, wwi was around 15 maybe 18 nmi.
I was watching a documentary about the long range, mostly naval origin guns (not the v3, thats a different system altogether) that the Germans had in ww2 in France to shell England and also in England firing back. The german k12 gun if I remember rightly could fire 100km into England. Im not sure how far in that would hit but Maidstone in kent got 5 hits I think and also the village of otham.
How Phil swift always says : *NOW THAT'S A LOT OF DAMAGE*
Missed opportunity to have a slow-mo shot on the “inside” of the ship to actually see the ball come through. I cannot forgive this and will now dedicate a substantial part of my life to dissuading people from watching Smithsonian Channel. It will be a thankless job, and an unfulfilling life, but I believe it has to be done.
Exactly what I thought
Godspeed petty internet man! When the Smithsonian goes out of business I'll be sure to thank you
The Finesse Kid I didn’t do it for the thanks, but I appreciate all the same. Someone should slo-mo film them knocking the building down, preferably with cannons.
you ""this naval cannon"
vs
the guy she told you not to worry about "460 Yamato gun"
Two things:
Mythbusters was often wrong, and,
That target ship section was laughable. The planking was about a quarter the thickness of an actual historical ship's and there were no heavy frames inside. Look at how an actual warship was built in the day, the frames were about a foot thick, a foot or more wide and spaced with no more than a foot between them.
Just another example of fact deficient programming for the ignorant to ooh and ahh over.
i can't stand mythbusters. those guys are turds
Well said
Woah, you're very superior man
Agree though.
@@forrestl5597 Never watched a single one.
Very well said !
Next episode: a ww2 flamethrower can set a lot of things on fire, who knew
1:20 when you do your best to avoid getting in a family's picture.
The actual people that manned these could not be far away with ear muffs on. Especially on a ship.
Also casting a cannon barrel makes it more likely to bust and ruin everybody's day. It wasn't until the Napoleonic wars that the british started boring cannon barrels, making them more reliable
@@adhityoprathamaadji2393 nope
Only
TOBBACCO
@@adhityoprathamaadji2393 they put their hands over their ears and prayed for no ear damage
@Steve Rivinius Yes. There were different variants but one I heard of is cotton stuffed in the ears with a leather strap around the head holding a cloth. They were often ignored but most kids on cannons in the ship used them.
The gunners were generally deafened, eventually.
Mythbusters did a segment on so called "splinters" and concluded they weren't dangerous. But the term splinter was sometimes applied to the pieces of exploding shells. There may be some confusion in interpreting accounts which refer to splinters. (Edit: I only study the Revolutionary War, and I didn't agree with Mythbusters on this; there are just too many accounts referring to solid shot hitting fences and soldiers being hit by "splinters," so it seems clear they mean wood splinters in these cases at least.)
I mean infection was a bit**
Mythbusters was wrong.
Or you could read any naval account of the time, I'd recommend "The War for All Oceans" as it takes primary source documents into account. Splinters were a massive issue to sailors.
@@AdmiralHipper15Indeed, there are too many accounts from the Revolutionary war of splinters wounding people. But the term was interchangeable. They often called the pieces of exploding shells "splinters." We hear splinter and automatically think wood. In Joseph Plumb Martin's famous narrative, he refers to a cannonball striking a post and bar fence and wounding nearby soldiers with splinters. The obvious assumption is wood splinters.
@Tyrone Taylor Now that was a test done properly.
It takes balls to fire a cannon.
“...and if you look at the gun port, ...”
*no view of gun port*
Any competent internet user would be a fan of flex tape and Phil
Just put it in rice and we're in pirates of the Caribbean
That moment when you realize the HMS Victory fired 42lb cannon balls
and could fire them effectively from a helluva lot further than 100 yards out.
@@stevedavis8329 Amazing what a century of progress can bring.
*1:02** АХУЕННО!*
Ахахахаахх думал, не ужели никто не услышал этого))
An exit look of the damage would have been nice
And a flex tape repair.
It was as thin as a child’s playhouse. Nothing to see inside. The real test would have been against proper oak planking with another hull about thirty feet back. Would it have penetrated both sides?
Imagine dozens of those firing on a crowded lower deck-can't have been fun for the gunners!!
These were made of cast steel, and then polished and heat treated (annealed) once the mold was cool.
By drilling a spiral twist down the barrel, using a jig in the barrels caliber, and 2 diamonds, the range and accuracy are increased
Exactly what sits above my stairs pointing at my front door. Still waiting on that one night to come
Mark Lanton - I saw the meme and decided it would be totally badass to make it into a real life situation and have it make the news.
I do have six security cameras ( one facing from the top of the stairs down to the front door ) just for video evidence and of course so we all can watch it in slow mo.
Me in some tidy whites and a pirate hat unleashing an un holy blast of canon fire lol
"Only a flesh wound. ...I've had worse."
The impact of one of those cannonballs was like a frag bomb: the wood would blast inwards, splinters up to an arm's length would tear through both the air and the crew, inflicting horrific wounds or lethally skewering them.
. A single round doesn't do that much damage by itself. I still would not like to be on the receiving end of it though. Thats why They used them in a broadside with multiple guns firing at once shredding the sides of the boat and the crew.
@@Bedgie01 True. Fifteen or fifty of those things would do horrifying damage.
As mentioned. The ball isnt the thing you have to worry about because you can dodge it like a 9 pound metal kickball is flying at you with high speed. Its the shrapnel you have to worry about. Same with grenades and most explosives although I dont advise standing too close to them anyways.
If you want a better view on this I recommend you search up Vasa Canon which was made a few years back full power by the artillery company Bofors to replicate the 1600s cannon on a warship. A lot of power
Tack. Det var bättre film.
Interesting to note that none of the crew were next to the gun as it fired, they were wearing ear protection, and the gun and target were both entirely stationary. Such luxuries were not enjoyed by naval crewmen of the early modern period.
Ah yeah, true since its like firing a gun but the gun firing more noise than the regular gun and your ears will be ringing cuz of the noise of a gun firing
I wonder if the remote firing was because this was the first shot with the cannon? Unless you inspect the entire barrel with modern methods you test the dam thing carefully so the first time you use it and there is a casting flaw you don't become the victim of your own weapon. I heard they would work up to double shot and powder loads to proof test. Don't know what period that was.
Become a scientist! You get to play with cannons for a living!
While the target was not even up to IKEA’s standards, seeing that 9 pounder go off was awesome. Hilarious to watch the presenter cover his ears from about 20 yards out when gun crews were blasting 18 pounders during a lively action for hours at a time about 3 feet away
not to mention flinging whatever Five Hundredweights each is in modern weight( it's over 250 Kilo's!/560 Lbs!) per man on average) of Long Gun on squat iron wheels around by hand and aiming with hand spikes,WHILE being shot at...Wow.
@@schiz0phren1c yeah it’s crazy to think about. The men of yesterday would be shocked at the state of man today and the nations they died for
@@OwlOfNivica I absolutely agree 100% Enkel!,
I recently watched two VERY sobering Documentaries one on Waterloo with Sean Bean narrating and genuinely being shocked at the BRUTALITY of that horrible day...(both me AND Sean Bean who was amazing, humble, respectful, even the modern day Army units who were in this documentary when asked how they would "fare in CQB with their old units" said that "300 metres and more we'd take them",
"RIGHT up in our faces would be a different story",
I highly recommend it!
Then I watched "The Bloodiest Battle Ever Fought In Britain | The Battle Of Towton | Timeline" and my lord!
Only watch if you want to realise just how TOUGH these guys were!,and how ROUGH,NASTY and UN-GLAMOROUS Hand weapon fighting was,
I won't spoil anything I'll just say that Medieval soldiers were a different breed altogether, and "Chivalry" was/is a comfortable lie people told themselves.
Sorry for the long reply!, I've been looking for someone to share this revelation with!
@@schiz0phren1c no worries my brother, I always appreciate learning new things or being recommended interesting things. I will definitely watch your recommendations. As far as the men of yesterday, I couldn’t agree more, they were hardened by life, nothing came easy. One of my favorite novels is Men of Iron by Howard Pyle, about a young man who’s trials and tribulations lead to knighthood. I especially admire sailors during the golden age of sail. I think a most fitting description of this era and these men can be summarized in the quote “when the ships were made of wood, and the men of iron”. I highly recommend the movie Master and Commander: The Far side of the World if you haven’t seen it and the books it’s based on. All the best my friend!
@@OwlOfNivica The Aubrey/Maturin Novels are one of my favourite series my friend!
and the movie is one of the best adaptations!
Awesome,
I look forward to reading Men of Iron thank you so much!,
may I recommend the Flashman Papers by
George MacDonald Fraser?
they are set in great moments in history,
with a "Hero" who is actually a cad and a bounder in secret,
they are FAR from politically correct in particular with modern sensibilities ,
but historically accurate and the funniest series I've read!
Thank you Enkel and take care!
In 1987 I moved from Miami to Spring city, Pennsylvania. First week in the house i’m planning shrubs in the backyard, and I dug up a cannonball and some small trigger parts from a gun. all from the revolutionary war.
NOW THATS ALOT OF DAMAGE
The point of the cannons wasn't to do damage to the crew, it was to put holes below the waterline so that the ship would take water and sink. The cannon work exactly how it was supposed to lol
Uh.... ships were valuable and expensive so capturing one was the highest priority not sinking them
I love that its straight to the point
Cannon size shown here:
- 9 pound w/ 3 pounds of powder
1800’s 1st rate ship of the line cannon:
- 32 pound with 16 pounds of powder
Wait, so the ship didn't explode in a massive fire ball? Michael Bay lied to me!
didn’t even show the exit hole which i’d assume created a larger hole
Not sure if that's true, its an iron ball and isn't made to fragment on impact.
You can see through the ship, the hole is the same size
Not with a solid iron/steel shot.
dude that target was made out of fruit boxes
It did show the inside at the end.
Love it, great content, the recoil was amazing
Next: firing cannon with actual 18th century ships and in an actual battle.
Video: *Firing a 17th century cannon*
17th century people with PTSD:
NOW THAT'S A LOT OF DAMAGE!
edit: i see i'm not the only genius in this comment section. good.
NOW THAT'S A LOTTA DAMAGE!
0:58 everyone else is pretty chill, but the guy wanted to make it a bit more dramatic for the camera.
Now that's a lot of damage
Worth noting that the target is built more like something you'd ship a vase in than an actual ship.
That Cannon ball went so fast that air brushed of its sides
2020- Just an experiment...🙄
1620- let the war begins...🤠
I've read that ships of that period commonly had sides as thick as 1 foot, made of oak or other heavy wood. This model appears to be in no way similar in thickness or wood type! I want a better re-creation!
She should have put all that wood into a square, instead of building a mini boat
That target was NOT a proper representation of a ships side. They'd be over 6 feet thick. Those ships were huge!
Right, He meant to say the ships were Solid wood
Phil Swift: "Now that's a lot of damage!"
The firepower carried by17th Century warships was clearly devastating to the lightly constructed wooden dinghies and dories demonstrated here.
Comment section: "Hey that's not fair, the target is nowhere near sturdy enough!"
Medieval history buffs: "First time?"
Seriously, shows like this are more made for entertainment of the general public, and are almost always heavily biased to show their weapon is more powerful than it is, or demonstrate easy to grasp concepts like the amount of raw damage it does.
Almost always heavily biased to show the quackademic is more knowledgeable than he is...
Makes me want to watch Master and Commander. Great film and relatively historically accurate..
HOLD FAST
Turn on the subtitles when you watch. You get to see a ton a nautical language. ⛵️
One of my favorite movies watched it several times never gets old
*Crosses fingers* "Please let the comments be about Flextape, please let the comments be about Flextape..."
Was not disappointed :)
Oh sorry our cannonball just landed in the vicars tea party 😂
Can it be repaired with flex seal?
That cannon looks awkwardly short. In Zeeland we have a lot of cannons from that era sitting around, used as 'decor' in many cities, and they are never as tiny as this one!
Because this is a 9lb. cannon, which is one of the smallest they used back then. Big naval vessels were using up to 42lb. cannons, not these little pea shooters.
1:11 awesome shot...you can see the vapor cloud on the cannon ball and you can also see a dark line (shockwave) pass through the dirt that gets kicked up :)
The ships of the 16th century were incredible marvels of engineering. Made from wood, cloth, rope, some metal. They were as majestic as they were deadly. Truly nothing like them.
I just wanted to see that cannon in action. Holy smoke, I wasn't dissappointed but I could almost imagine being next to the horrendous war machine.
NOW THAT’S A LOT OF DAMAGE!
Nobody:
The guy from the midnight ads:
Now thats alot of DAMagE.
Pans over to the target: a paper drawing of a rowing boat
nice looking cannon, glad it can really fire solid shot with a decent load of powder. The tackle rig looked good but I think it was poorly rigged because it moved the gun back sloppily. Probably shouldn't damage its own port with its first shot. And also, I'd have appreciated some discussion, even in a short video, about the target's sides. That thing looked like an elaborate clubhouse for some sea scouts.
Like the mythbusters, the target ship is just plain wrong and proves nothing.
Not only that, but load these bad boys with tiny iron segments and you have yourself an enormous crew killing shotguns that annihilate everything inside with ricochets.
Well, I never expected some Russian to say a swear word and have it broadcast at the Smithsonian
Phil Swift approves
I wasn't really impressed...
Barbarians from clash of clans: this gon’ be easy
And the Spanish ship "Santísima Trinidad" had 140 cannons, imagine how destructive that ship was
@CT-2307 unfortunately Nelson died in the last battle of Santísima Trinidad
Esto apenas es un cañón de 9 libras. Como los cañones pequeños del galeón Santiago de Compostela de 52 cañones de 1542. Hay que imaginarse lo que podían hacer cañones navales pesados como los que estaban presentes en los galeones y buques posteriores, de 22 a incluso más de 40 libras. En la época de apogeo del imperio español galeones como el Santa Teresa de 64 a 80 cañones según las distintas fuentes (que participó en la batalla de Gibraltar de 1621) poseían esos cañones, y el Santísima tenía 32 cañones de a 36 libras y 34 de a 24. Nos podemos hacer una idea cuando vemos cañones mucho menores, de 12 libras, atravesando coches de alante hacia atrás con facilidad en UA-cam.
1:02 Ахуенно
"Seroius Sam" cannon finally in action 😂
Just imagine the sound the crew had to endure with multiple cannons firing in an enclosed space. The combined concussive effect had to have damaged more than just their hearing.
And that was about the smallest gun a warship might mount, in the period they went up to at least 32 lbs., and by the time they got up to ironclads 68 pounders were the norm with some going up well over a hundred pounds.
If you want a better view on all of this I recommend you all to watch the video called “Firing the VASA cannon” which was a Swedish historically reproduced cannon fired at a broadside.
0:59
the guy: *puts on earmuffs*
the cannon: CANNON GO BOOM *detonates*
Well with that thickness no wonder the cannonball punched straight through.
''STOP BLOWING HOLES IN MY SHIP!"