Considering this is one of the oldest surviving 'big' ships still intact, it's absolutely incredible that it's in such good condition & even more amazing that they let thousands of visitors on board to look around! A real credit to the people maintaining it, & those who built it in the first place.
This ship was a smoking pile of flaming wood and burnt rigging after Trafalgar and most of what you see in this video is not "the actual ship that fought", if that makes sense.
james braselton did you slam your face on your keyboard to type that? Normally I can make sense of botched English but 85% of what you typed doesn’t even resemble actual words.
In reality, British warships to this day have a "nutty bar" where sailors can buy sweets and chocolate, drinks, and other essentials like shaving cream and razors etc. Usually managed by a Naafi Damager!
It must have been really intense and lots of people must have become deaf from this, although cannons were fired alternatively because if all of them fired at once, the ship would roll and the hull would be severely damaged, there is a video showing how they fired to broadsides
no, i can't. but also can you imagine the carnage from from wood splinters as cannonballs ripped men and ship apart?????? terrible structural damage, men ripped apart. but the ship survived. how? only just.
Steve K your having a laugh . The U.S.A. got its government structure and justice system from the U.K’s model so we must be the oldest government and justice system in the world Steve K. this is more American false claims.
28 minutes of enjoyable viewing-no camera shake, no constant zooming in and out or panning all over the place. This video will also be a boon to anyone like myself who has built or is building a scale model of the Victory. Thank you for posting.
I visited the VICTORY at Portsmouth in 1999. Another American visitor told me three times he was a US Naval Academy graduate. Then he corrected one of the VICTORY's tour guides repeatedly. I visited again the next day and the guide asked, "Didn't you bring the admiral today?"
I just love your comment. So just over 8 generations of visitors or occupants like your self have had an experience with this old Lady. Or 8 generations of 30 year careers have been experienced. WOW ! ( 8 x 30) year careers or over 245 years. What business can brag that. Imagine how old the trees were in the old growth spars and other parts of this ship,,,,,,,,The organic experience of the materials and construction can easily push 1000 years. what a time casual.
I can only imagine the sights, sounds, and smells that those crews would have experienced. Something that a sterile tour can't provide, but the imagination can certainly invent. The camaraderie along with the inordinate amount of time spent together must have created a very unique dynamic between the crew. Thanks for the upload.
Most men were pressed into service, so not volunteers. I can imagine a lot of them had a general disliking of the officers, if not just straight up hate.
Sometime between 1970 & 72, aged around 10, I went to Portsmouth with my family to gift an ensign from the HMS Hermes that was sunk off Colombo in 1942 to the new Hermes. My uncle, Able Seaman John Quinn, who went down with the Hermes, had been mentioned in dispatches for his part in a night raid to disable the Vichy French battleship Richelieu where she was hiding in Dakar harbour. British Naval tradition is to carry a relic of the previous ship of the same name. Our ensign, from the boat used in the raid, had somehow been left with John's fiancee in Capetown. When Hermes went down so quickly, it became the only relic of the old ship. While in Portsmouth to present it to the new Hermes, we were given a guided tour through HMS Victory while she was being restored with new timbers. The Royal Marine guide asked if I'd help his reenactment of a gun drill by acting as powder monkey. Afterwards, he reached out to one of the rotting gun deck timbers that had been part of the ship at the battle of Trafalgar, brokeoff a big piece, and said, "Put that up your jumper." May father made a presentation case out of an old cigar box. It's in my office next to me as I type this.
Wonderful story and history, Kevan Quinn. You returned one bit of history and went away with another. Pass down the story and the piece of history to someone who will keep it alive. Too much of the history is lost as each of us pass away, because it was not thought important enough for the history books, or was not known to the historians who write the books. We are each entrusted to pass on the small bits of it we were given that shows history beyond the acclaimed heroes and the famous. Write it down, pass it on, keep it alive. Thank you sir.
Thanks for sharing, made me smile. I lived in Pompey through the seventies, it was a different time. A tour of the Victory was almost a yearly thing through school. I thought so little of it then and now realize how important it was/is to me all these years later. Good on you Sir! I am a little envious but also happy someone has a piece of our collective history, knows its worth and gets such joy from it as I would!
what an incredible feat of engineering... at a time when there were no power tools or electricity too. it's crazy to think people could build like this let alone take this across the open seas
My thoughts exactly. Hand tools and elbow grease. I often wonder what a wimp i would be next to men such as the ones that built things like this so long ago.
I'm thinking especially back then this was something fun especially to a professional ship builder as one piece went up they couldn't wait to get the next kinda like I do with building models only they had massive objects to move and cut so yea I agree definitely hard work but fun for them especially in a time with no television or electricity
I was aboard the USS Nassau and we docked at Portsmouth in 1983 and saw the HMS Mary Rose being slowly lifted out of her watery grave. Didn’t get a chance to visit the Victory, but now I can enjoy her splendor. Reading of the battle does no justice to the size. Great camera work, and one can imagine a crew of 850 running her plus Marines...excellent!
In the stern of Victory there is an officers mess with one of the capstans traveling through it. Many years ago I had the unique opportunity of installing an octagonal table top over this capstan so the officers could use it as a table of sorts. Very proud moment for a carpenter to work on the oldest commissioned ship in the Royal Navy.
I read somewhere that as the capstans needed a lot of men to raise an anchor. If in rough weather they had four down, to get them all up would take 24 hours.
For someone who'll never get the chance to go on board the HMS Victory.. thank you so much.. I spent 2 years on the Aircraft Carrier Lexington back in the later parts of the 1960s... It's now a museum in the harbor of Corpus Christy Texas...
David Lemon funnily enough I’m British and I’ve visited that ship when I did an exchange with a ROTC unit but I’ve never visited the victory (plan to this year in the summer)
Fantastic. Visited this ship a few years ago and spent hours on board just soaking up the history. Its hard to imagine the whole thing was powered by sheer muscle power and wind.
I never realized how huge these ships are. Externally, from a distance, they don't appear to be that big. I was surprised. I know it's a warship, but the craftsmanship of this vessel is a work of art. Really enjoyed the video.
So many big trees, so many miles of rope, so much coal to melt the iron for canons, hooks, canon balls, anchors, so much weaving for sail cloth. It boggles the mind.
Yup in them days men were still men and could build a ship - and run it and win battles. They must be turning in their graves to see what has become of their descendants...
Heart of Oak are our ships, Jolly Tars are our men, We always are ready: Steady, boys, Steady! We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again. Thanks for the tour!
@@latbat58 A class of the ship of the line. Britain used the rating system. 1st Rates being the largest ship of the line with 100+ guns. 2nd Rates being ships with 90-98 guns. 3rd Rates had 64-88 guns (The 74 gun variant was the most common warship of the period, fast, cheap, effective, strong, reliable). 4th Rates (Which where re classified as "heavy frigate" in the late 1700s and early 1800s) had 50-62 guns
@@matikramer9648With many, MANY crewmen, hundreds of them. Somewhere i read she had over 800 crew, which sounds about right, given that each gun took like 5 - 7 people to operate, so 150 to 250 ish hands would be left for the top deck to do all the ropework. So during action, every single person aboard would be utilized. Despite the size, with that amount of people, it must‘ve been unfathomably crowded.
I remember my father (he was from Bristol) took us back to England to visit family and we went and saw this.. I STILL have the Airfix scale model we bought of it in the gift store and later built together back home in U.S. lol... MANY thx, to you and yours for bringing back that memory for me ; )
The way the camera is moving along and that eerie back noise and faint voices give me the feeling that I'm a ghost from Nelsons crew strolling around the old ship.
Wonderful video. Amazing to see how big that ship was for its time. The thick hull and all the timber and wood that went in to building this wonderful ship clearly illustrates why England ruled the seven seas!
Thank you for making this, I keep rewatching. The audio drowns out the chatter, aaah. I can’t get over what a monster this was. In it’s time or modern, what a monster of a broadside battery
Many years ago I was filming onboard The Victory with an old 8mm camera. The tour guide told me to stop filming as it is still an enlisted ship of HM Navy. My dad mentioned to the guide that he was a Chief Pretty Officer Retired. The guide turned to me, and said, 'carry on son , but don't make it obvious.' Love The Victory. Love Pompey. Love The Navy.
Have visited her many times, a magnificent ship. Don’t forget she has also survived the ravages of two world wars. Pompey (Portsmouth) and the dockyard is a great place to visit and has lots to see. If you haven’t visited, do so you won’t be disappointed.
Wow! What a great video. I'll likely never get to visit the Victory but your walk through is the next best thing. This might be the best video in the world for seeing this historic ship. Thank you very much.
Its the most beautiful ship in the world and very popular. Pity you can't see it. We also have the Mary Rose with all its artefacts, The Iron Warrior and the only surviving ship from world war one on display. Add to that the D Day museum, Royal Marines museum and Royal Navy museums and other relics and you have yourself a very good reason to visit Portsmouth. UK obviously.
@@PompeyChris71 I was there in 2018 and enjoyed Portsmouth very much so, I had a bit of trouble touring the HMS Victory as your sailers in the day were not 6 + feet tall, only bumped my head a few times. ;-) VERY impressive ship with lots of history
@@PompeyChris71 I'm fairly sure that other world war one vessels have survived. If my memory serves me there's an old dreadnought in America and something in Japan.
Thanks for the wonderful tour! I missed my chance to do it myself when I was in the UK for foreign study many years ago. I am thrilled that she is in such fine preservation.
@@AverageAlien Well, no if your pirate ship was faster and more manoeuvrable. And they usually were, because pirates needed fast vessels to intercept their prey, not huge and slow 1st-rate ship of the line, built for frontal fleet battles, not privateering.
@@AverageAlien IF your ship is within the range of their cannons (around 1500 yards max) - hence the speed as factor, to keep your ship outside of this range. Ships of this class were big and clumsy, made for two-column warfare, relying also on the existence of the rest of the fleet. The 74 was considered the golden middle ground between firepower and mobility. The standard privateering tactic in one-on-one fight was based on manoeuvrability - if the smaller vessel (like a brigantine) could sneak up (darkness, fog, terrain, trick...) to a larger vessel, it could attack it's stern and disable it's rudder. And if a bigger ship cannot turn to aim their guns at you, they cannot hit you, can they?
Nice video tour! What a national treasure! Back in those days of the 1700s, the huge size and expense of these triple-decker, 100 plus gun, First-Rate, Ships-Of-The-Line, like the Victory, is equivalent to what an aircraft carrier would be today. 🇬🇧☝️
Yes, HMS Victory (1765) is the oldest naval ship still in commission in the world. She was placed in dry dock in 1922. The oldest naval ship AFLOAT still in commission in the world is the USS Constitution (1797).
Thats the best impression of a CGI camera i've seen... really smooth. Great video and it must be useful to a lot of people. Brought back memories of visiting it when at school as well.
absolutely god dam amazing, the craftsmanship, the engineering, its truly a marvel and something to behold! My only complaint is the on ship gift shop, do they really think that is necessary on such a magnificent piece of history?
YES the tacky gift shop stays-they need the money so they can keep this magnificent piece of history intact as far as possible, and so we can go see it inside and outside, and take our selfies...
I love the UK too and hope that it can preserve as much of its ancient heritage and culture as possible. In fact I wish that for all of Europe. European culture deserves to be preserved . However, as a foreigner I try to stay clear of other countries' politics. We have enough going on now in the USA as it is. I do not know how old you are but if you are anywhere near my age and, I assume you are German, it means that possibly my dad may have tried to kill your dad in WWII and vice versa. But that was a very long time ago. And here we are chatting on TH-cam about a historical British warship! Maybe that's called "Progress?"
Ancestrally, I'm Frisian, German, Scandanavian and Belgian, but im from America, 45 years old, while I agree to some extent to stay out of the politics of other countries, however. When I see the immigration nonsense and the destruction of all of Europe, I just can't keep my disdain about it to myself.
I have visited the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, all the Scandinavian countries and just about all of Western Europe in my 69 years of life. I enjoyed being in every one of them; even when I did not speak their languages and vice versa. Western culture and civilization must be preserved. I wish I had a painless, quick and easy solution to the immigration messes in Europe and the USA but I do not. And certainly our politicians just seem to make the situation worse. We have just got to do better than the" status quo" which= DISASTER
The people of the UK took power into their own hands with the BREXIT vote, defying their own politicians and the media pundits. Do not despair-Nothing is inevitable. The British people have the habit in their long history of somehow getting the job done when the time comes (even though it may take a little longer than expected). Good luck to you and yours and please do pray for AMERICA.
Thanks to you and others who share their experiences and videos of places that people like myself would otherwise never be able to visit. I so love clipper ships and sailing vessels of all types.
What strikes me about this video is that it seems everyone is free to walk about this historic ship practically wherever they choose. On both occasions when I was aboard, tourists like myself were led about in groups to the various areas of the ship by sailors of the Royal Navy. This independent walking around is I guess allowed now but it was not when I visited the ship about 20 years ago.
yes, we visited in 2017 and we had free reign to wander about. certain areas were out of bounds and cordoned off but we could go up or down as we pleased so please come back and visit again if you can!!
A forefather of mine Cpt Gewan Hamilton was captain of Hms Havannah. He was stationed at St Helena where he was custodian of Bonaparte during his imprisonment there. People of that generation were incredible. The family settled in Capetown and we are still here.
Wonderful video. We have just returned from Portsmouth having so many nice memories, also from the visit of Victory. Masterpiece conected with British history.
I was born in Portsmouth (Home of HMS Victory) in the late 1950's. My father was a Royal Navy officer and first took me to see it when I was four years old, by the time I was ten years old I had been on it more than 100 times. Every school holiday when it rained, on the bikes and down the the dockyard, onto Victory, any moment of boredom, onto victory. The talks that the Royal Marines gave during the group tour were great, lots of 'gory battle detail'. Where are the greasy mop heads that hung on ropes holding up the tables by the guns, crew would wipe their greasy hands on it after eating stew etc and at the end of the week they would all be dropped in the main stew pot to add flavour. Pretty much how they make McDonald's these days. The best thing was it was free!!!! It was still free in my early twenty's. Looking at this video brings mixed feelings, all of the masts and rigging are missing, one guesses for renovation. The top few lower decks have been sanitised with white gloss paint which has totally removed the feeling of how it would of felt from 1765 when it was launched through to the early 1800's and onto to The battle of Trafalgar in 1805. I recommend reading up on how Nelson won that battle, the way he had the gun ports open on one side as they closed on the French fleet, French ready their guns to fire at the Open ports. Coming at the french at right angles the starboard ports open, the French man the guns on their port side but Nelson sailed thru the line firing at the stern's and forward's of the French ships where there were only light guns aimed at the RN ships. At the west end of Portsdown hill over looking Portsmouth harbour there is a less well known 'Nelsons Column' the place where Nelson looked out onto the harbour before he boarded HMS Victory for the last time. Family Sunday roast dinner gatherings when I was very young were filled with all the gory details of HMS Victory, "Mum...do you know why the lowest deck in Victory was painted red...it's where the surgeons went to work during battles" but i would go into the full details given by the Royal Marine guide that week :-)
Even by today's standards this is a huge warship. What is so impressive is the massive size of the various wooden structures. It leaves you wondering how the wood was actually cut and shaped with the technology and machines of the period. All things considered it's fairly mind boggling that royal shipyards could have built the Victory some two centuries ago, almost entirely of wood, and it still appears like it could sail today.
Wow, thanks for that reply, it's really great when someone gives you a technical answer that not only clears up everything but makes you feel stupid for commenting in the first place. Now that stellvia hoenheim has told us that "wood isn't that hard to cut" I can go ahead with my project of building a half sized replica of the HMS Victory in my back yard. It should be a piece of cake...seeing how wood ain't that hard to cut n'all. With maybe a few friends, a saw or two, and my twelve year old daughter, I figure I can get it knocked out in a couple of weekends. Thanks, stellvia, for you riveting and detailed explanation of how they actually built the Victory back in the day. Just think, without your extraordinary enlightenment on the subject I would still be impressed by what was accomplished in British shipyards in the 18th century. Now, thanks to you of course, I know it wasn't a big deal at all. I can't thank you enough for your input. I am humbled by your expertise.
Green oak is indeed easy to cut. Just put over thousand man/child work years on it. Don't forget It's a child of the industrial revolution so two thousand by todays standard.
Wood for ships was part of our problems with Great Britain that led to the revolution. For example, all White Pines were considered the property of the King and we could not cut them down -- they were needed for masts for ships. They didn't consider how to get 140' long logs across the frontier and to the shipyards.
@@ericmowrey6872 Brilliant reply Eric. Victory was built in Chatham Dockyard in South East England. The Dock where she was built is still there, a team of 150 men were used to build the frame of Victory, around 6,000 trees were used in construction of this ship mostly oak but also elm, pine, and fir. Once the frame was built it was covered up and left for a few months to dry out, but because us and the frogs got bored of knocking the crap out of one another, she was left for almost three years. Foresters, could identify trees and shape some of them as they grew to fit different parts of the ship. The website of the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth is pretty good for any information that you might want.
Thank you for this wonderful tour. I know it must be a bit of a hassle to film while you are visiting but it is awesome for me, couple thousands miles away, to have to honor to see and experience this amazing ship.
HMS Victory was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. It was designed by Sir Thomas Slade and built at Chatham Dockyard. Over 2000 oak trees were used in the construction of the hull - equivalent to 60 acres of forest. The final cost was £63,176 (over £50 million today). HMS Victory was Lord Nelson's flagship in his victory at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. It was also the place of his death when he was mortally wounded by a sniper during the battle.
I’m here after jus recently watching “Master and Commander” for the FIRST time! Crazy to think people lived and worked on this beautiful piece of machinery out on the open sea.
What I find amazing is the size of this warship a true tribute to what men can do and what England had I could imagine the fear this warship must of put into other Nations,, She is absolutely Magnificent,,👍👍😄😄
Thank you for sharing this!! I was able to put together a virtual walkthrough from watching this video along with some other videos. I’m glad that you were able to capture the ship before it’s renovation.
That's a"bloody big ship!!" And then, to imagine it loaded with men, equipment, gear and supplies, under full sail, being driven where needed, in the heat of battle! Damn!!! And; that it's ready for duty, at sea... As a Ship of the Line! Commissioned ... still !!! They meant business, no doubt!!!
Is this the original ship or is it just a replica? Because it looks too clean and perfectly painted since its like 400 years old it should be more dusty
@@nutbuster4204 Hi, It is the very real original (though very well cared for) "Ship of the Line!" It is still "Commissioned for active duty service!" And, if I remember correctly, it's the only sailing Ship, as such. And, if I remember, it's the same one that Adm. Nelson got killed on. In fact, though it's been a while since I watched this video, I seem to remember that the exact site of his death can be seen in this video. (And; believe it or not, all of this info coming from and old home-grown guy in Montana, USA. Thus, if you haven't watched the video, please do! I am still left aghast by the shear immensity of that "bloody big ship!". And, to even being to imagine controlling it affectively through a Naval battle; or, much less, to imagine trying to blow it out of the water, with all those guns shooting at me, too! By the way, what's a "Yorker?" [From the old movie about the "Dam Buster's", which referred the Lord Nelson using them, with his cannonballs... Something about bouncing them off the water, to get more of a final upward trajectory, of the cannonballs, as they hit lower into a ship's hull... I'm assuming?...].). Anyway! Damn, that's a bloody big ship. (There's just something about the way that sounds! I like it.) Semper Fi, to liberty!
@@marks.c4753 "HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. She additionally served as Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship. In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, Great Britain, and preserved as a museum ship. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission, with 243 years' service as of 2021." - Wikipedia
I've visited the Victory at Portsmouth's historic dockyard many times and I'm always surprised by how small it is. Life on board these ships of the line must've been incredibly cramped, noisy and hectic.
I think that might be fun for a day or so. I think it would be worthwhile to make this "Victory" sea-worthy or build a replica that could provide the sensation. Nearly every man aboard that ship at it's time had done everything they could to avoid being on that ship for good reason.
@@andywomack3414 Yeah...anybody who wished that he was aboard a Napoleonic ship of the line doesn't know a thing about history. The brutal discipline, the brutal food,the brutal battles ( try absorbing shards of flying wood into your body)... er no thanks.
@@michellebrown4903 number one it's the army of course it's disciplined and brutal food atleast they still got food and the brutal battles were not that brutal they were naval battles which not many people died in
We have been there a few weeks ago and, as our tickets are valid for 1 year we will most likely go back there before they expire. Seeing the historic docyard in Portsmouth was to us as important as seeing everything else that counts in human history.
G. B. had the best cabinet-makers and shipwrights in the world. The French were also excellent at ship building, but the gold star goes to Britain. This ship (The Victory) is just astounding. Consider that, for all it's evident beauty as a ship, and the unsurpassed skill that went into its construction, it's principle function was to fire cannon balls and be fired at by cannon balls. Which would do horrific damage to all that fine woodwork.
So much more than I ever imagined. The thickness and spacing of those sturdy beams is why she is still here today. What a glorious testament to a seafaring nation. As to some of the comments below, well what a shame how quickly we spiral off into petty bickering when the topic ought to be about this ship or at least something to do with sailing the 7 seas.
Its not about weight, its about water displacement and other such things. US super carriers are made of steel and heavier by 100,000 tons. Plus wood floats better than steel.
nedthegreat6 this is not the real ship of the victory. They were not built for luxury in that time period and they were not built this nice or this huge so far people quite going there it is a lie look in your history books no ship back then was built like this all ships were built the same, same length and height and weight all over the world.
Very well done! Fascinating! So many nooks and crannies...kept wondering what's that for, stay on that item for awhile! Guess that's just the difference between the camera and human eye! Really enjoyed it! Have been on a tour of another old ship, but nothing like the HMS victory!
It would be lovely to see HMS Victory back on the water again with its masts up and ready and the whole ship restored and sailing again please no hate comments
I am always in awe when I get to experience historical places like this. In my mind I can see the activity of the era around me, and in my soul I can feel the energy. It fills me with a deep sense of respect for those who lived through moments, in which most people thoughtlessly refer to as "History".
Very cool, yet sad. I loved being able to see inside this amazing ship. The size is staggering... however, it really seems like they've went overboard with the museum portion. I found myself unable to tell what was originally the ship and what was added for tourists. It made the entire thing feel kinda like a museum built to represent an old ship rather than an actual ship that existed. Still cool though.
Considering this is one of the oldest surviving 'big' ships still intact, it's absolutely incredible that it's in such good condition & even more amazing that they let thousands of visitors on board to look around! A real credit to the people maintaining it, & those who built it in the first place.
And the fact that this ship sunk quite a few back in the day. It certainly wasn't just for show.
This ship was a smoking pile of flaming wood and burnt rigging after Trafalgar and most of what you see in this video is not "the actual ship that fought", if that makes sense.
@@JenkinoJenkins it came back from trafalgar afloat and no British ships were sunk.
actually 20% of the ship dates back to the 1778-1812 when it was in service
You should read about "Ship of Theseus paradox", it's pretty accurately explains what Ancient Greeks was thinking on the matter.
Im quite surprised that even back in the days of sailing ships they still managed to find room for a fully adorned gift shop.
james braselton did you slam your face on your keyboard to type that? Normally I can make sense of botched English but 85% of what you typed doesn’t even resemble actual words.
owen bevans its*
In reality, British warships to this day have a "nutty bar" where sailors can buy sweets and chocolate, drinks, and other essentials like shaving cream and razors etc. Usually managed by a Naafi Damager!
@@yammmit maybe his phone autocorrected it to another language and he didn't notice it
@james braselton
My god, where did you go to school to learn such gibberish?
Imagine the skilled workmanship in the making of beautiful vessel like this.
All I can say is...that is an incredible feat of design and workmanship. I have been a carpenter since the early 1980's. I am humbled.
I'm looking to become a carpenter. What in particular did they do well with the Victory?
Can you imagine being inside there with the sound of all those cannons being fired all at once ?
What you ask I am deaf from the Cannon fire
It must have been really intense and lots of people must have become deaf from this, although cannons were fired alternatively because if all of them fired at once, the ship would roll and the hull would be severely damaged, there is a video showing how they fired to broadsides
Lmao this ship cannot salvos at once
You'd be blind and deaf after a battle!
no, i can't. but also can you imagine the carnage from from wood splinters as cannonballs ripped men and ship apart?????? terrible structural damage, men ripped apart. but the ship survived. how? only just.
Fun Fact: The HMS Victory is older than the United States of America
@phillyslasher The USA is the oldest government on earth.
Steve K your having a laugh . The U.S.A. got its government structure and justice system from the U.K’s model so we must be the oldest government and justice system in the world Steve K. this is more American false claims.
Chris Snelling in which the UK got from the Romans
KingXXL l suppose we’ll get back to the Chinese . But England was the big exporter of Morden government model due to its empire.
@@Kungen940127 Democracy? You're having a laugh, aren't you!
28 minutes of enjoyable viewing-no camera shake, no constant zooming in and out or panning all over the place. This video will also be a boon to anyone like myself who has built or is building a scale model of the Victory. Thank you for posting.
Try to go see it in person, if you can.
and no music or stupid talking.
Agree, very easy on the eye.
@Glasmania He’d have a job - I’m 80 and he’s in his grave!
I visited the VICTORY at Portsmouth in 1999. Another American visitor told me three times he was a US Naval Academy graduate. Then he corrected one of the VICTORY's tour guides repeatedly. I visited again the next day and the guide asked, "Didn't you bring the admiral today?"
LMAO 😂
The most American thing ever.
@@gramps7056 No one ever visited the next day. I find that rather hard to believe.
@@stevek8829 I visited two days in a row. What you believe makes no difference.
What an absolute beauty and a beast all in one. She was 40 years old when a battle at Trafalgar occurred.
I toured HMS Victory more than 30 years ago, it's nice to be able to have a virtual tour!
I just love your comment. So just over 8 generations of visitors or occupants like your self have had an experience with this old Lady. Or 8 generations of 30 year careers have been experienced. WOW ! ( 8 x 30) year careers or over 245 years. What business can brag that. Imagine how old the trees were in the old growth spars and other parts of this ship,,,,,,,,The organic experience of the materials and construction can easily push 1000 years. what a time casual.
I can only imagine the sights, sounds, and smells that those crews would have experienced. Something that a sterile tour can't provide, but the imagination can certainly invent. The camaraderie along with the inordinate amount of time spent together must have created a very unique dynamic between the crew.
Thanks for the upload.
Most men were pressed into service, so not volunteers. I can imagine a lot of them had a general disliking of the officers, if not just straight up hate.
Great comment, Mark - well said...
Smells? Be glad it was a sterile tour. 800 smelly 19th century Brits packed in a sardine can. Even they smelled better than seeps below the hold.
Sometime between 1970 & 72, aged around 10, I went to Portsmouth with my family to gift an ensign from the HMS Hermes that was sunk off Colombo in 1942 to the new Hermes. My uncle, Able Seaman John Quinn, who went down with the Hermes, had been mentioned in dispatches for his part in a night raid to disable the Vichy French battleship Richelieu where she was hiding in Dakar harbour. British Naval tradition is to carry a relic of the previous ship of the same name. Our ensign, from the boat used in the raid, had somehow been left with John's fiancee in Capetown. When Hermes went down so quickly, it became the only relic of the old ship. While in Portsmouth to present it to the new Hermes, we were given a guided tour through HMS Victory while she was being restored with new timbers. The Royal Marine guide asked if I'd help his reenactment of a gun drill by acting as powder monkey. Afterwards, he reached out to one of the rotting gun deck timbers that had been part of the ship at the battle of Trafalgar, brokeoff a big piece, and said, "Put that up your jumper." May father made a presentation case out of an old cigar box. It's in my office next to me as I type this.
Kevan Quinn now that is an incredible story. Thank you for sharing!
Wonderful story and history, Kevan Quinn. You returned one bit of history and went away with another. Pass down the story and the piece of history to someone who will keep it alive. Too much of the history is lost as each of us pass away, because it was not thought important enough for the history books, or was not known to the historians who write the books. We are each entrusted to pass on the small bits of it we were given that shows history beyond the acclaimed heroes and the famous. Write it down, pass it on, keep it alive. Thank you sir.
Kevan Quinn that guy is a legend. Never sell that piece of British history!
what a lovely story. thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing, made me smile. I lived in Pompey through the seventies, it was a different time. A tour of the Victory was almost a yearly thing through school. I thought so little of it then and now realize how important it was/is to me all these years later. Good on you Sir! I am a little envious but also happy someone has a piece of our collective history, knows its worth and gets such joy from it as I would!
what an incredible feat of engineering... at a time when there were no power tools or electricity too. it's crazy to think people could build like this let alone take this across the open seas
it makes you appreciate what a hardy bunch they were.
They had slaves for power tools then. And they still do, but pay them slave wages.
Nothing else to do in that time period lol
My thoughts exactly. Hand tools and elbow grease. I often wonder what a wimp i would be next to men such as the ones that built things like this so long ago.
I'm thinking especially back then this was something fun especially to a professional ship builder as one piece went up they couldn't wait to get the next kinda like I do with building models only they had massive objects to move and cut so yea I agree definitely hard work but fun for them especially in a time with no television or electricity
I was aboard the USS Nassau and we docked at Portsmouth in 1983 and saw the HMS Mary Rose being slowly lifted out of her watery grave. Didn’t get a chance to visit the Victory, but now I can enjoy her splendor. Reading of the battle does no justice to the size. Great camera work, and one can imagine a crew of 850 running her plus Marines...excellent!
In the stern of Victory there is an officers mess with one of the capstans traveling through it. Many years ago I had the unique opportunity of installing an octagonal table top over this capstan so the officers could use it as a table of sorts. Very proud moment for a carpenter to work on the oldest commissioned ship in the Royal Navy.
I read somewhere that as the capstans needed a lot of men to raise an anchor. If in rough weather they had four down, to get them all up would take 24 hours.
And about 144 Men to lift it.
@@SeanRegan01 There's an excellent 3d model of the Hinde on TH-cam, explains all that really well.
For someone who'll never get the chance to go on board the HMS Victory.. thank you so much.. I spent 2 years on the Aircraft Carrier Lexington back in the later parts of the 1960s... It's now a museum in the harbor of Corpus Christy Texas...
David Lemon funnily enough I’m British and I’ve visited that ship when I did an exchange with a ROTC unit but I’ve never visited the victory (plan to this year in the summer)
stellvia hoenheim think u have got the wrong website my man if your after that sort of thing there are other sites u can visit
What is wrong with you
stellvia hoenheim I see your charisma by pass operation was a big success.
The Lexington is in Charleston, I went on it earlier this year
Fantastic. Visited this ship a few years ago and spent hours on board just soaking up the history. Its hard to imagine the whole thing was powered by sheer muscle power and wind.
What a ship! Not only an actual first-rate ship of the line, but Nelson's very flagship! Thank you for posting your tour, friend. Cheers!
To think the designers were thoughtful enough to build a gift shop for the crew, to keep them going while spending months at sea!
Probably flogging off French booty. 😂
I don’t think that was for the crew, I think the people maintaining victory added a gift shop to make it more fun visiting victory
"Model ships? I see no ships."
@@STREOSPLAYS They should give you command of the ship, Captain Obvious.
I never realized how huge these ships are. Externally, from a distance, they don't appear to be that big. I was surprised. I know it's a warship, but the craftsmanship of this vessel is a work of art. Really enjoyed the video.
They used to call her the "wooden walls of England."
My God, what a wonderful preserved piece of Magnificent History !!! Would love to take the tour in person !
So many big trees, so many miles of rope, so much coal to melt the iron for canons, hooks, canon balls, anchors, so much weaving for sail cloth. It boggles the mind.
absolute truth.
And all that worked and didn't fall apart! For 80 years on active duty in fair and foul weather. Most boggled am I.
Britain's industrial might at it's finest
Yup in them days men were still men and could build a ship - and run it and win battles. They must be turning in their graves to see what has become of their descendants...
Heart of Oak are our ships,
Jolly Tars are our men,
We always are ready: Steady, boys, Steady!
We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again.
Thanks for the tour!
Jesus these were monstrous, how the hell did they build these back then, your like 4-5 stories in the air on the top deck.
almost every 1st rate back the was like this. it took 3-10 years to build these
@@thedictationofallah whats is 1st rate?
@@latbat58 A class of the ship of the line. Britain used the rating system. 1st Rates being the largest ship of the line with 100+ guns. 2nd Rates being ships with 90-98 guns. 3rd Rates had 64-88 guns (The 74 gun variant was the most common warship of the period, fast, cheap, effective, strong, reliable). 4th Rates (Which where re classified as "heavy frigate" in the late 1700s and early 1800s) had 50-62 guns
I have better question : and how did they managed to sail it after they built it
@@matikramer9648With many, MANY crewmen, hundreds of them. Somewhere i read she had over 800 crew, which sounds about right, given that each gun took like 5 - 7 people to operate, so 150 to 250 ish hands would be left for the top deck to do all the ropework. So during action, every single person aboard would be utilized. Despite the size, with that amount of people, it must‘ve been unfathomably crowded.
I remember my father (he was from Bristol) took us back to England to visit family and we went and saw this.. I STILL have the Airfix scale model we bought of it in the gift store and later built together back home in U.S. lol... MANY thx, to you and yours for bringing back that memory for me ; )
The way the camera is moving along and that eerie back noise and faint voices give me the feeling that I'm a ghost from Nelsons crew strolling around the old ship.
Priceless peice of british cultural heritage and an absolute masterpeice work of art and engineering
Wonderful video. Amazing to see how big that ship was for its time. The thick hull and all the timber and wood that went in to building this wonderful ship clearly illustrates why England ruled the seven seas!
Here Nelson fell...that would give me goosebumps. Touching real history there.
Went through the ship in 2012,....one great afternoon enjoying this lovely English treasure.
Thank you for making this, I keep rewatching. The audio drowns out the chatter, aaah. I can’t get over what a monster this was. In it’s time or modern, what a monster of a broadside battery
An instrument of war but what a thing of immense beauty. It was a different time to be sure. Thank you for posting this bit of living history.
Many years ago I was filming onboard The Victory with an old 8mm camera. The tour guide told me to stop filming as it is still an enlisted ship of HM Navy. My dad mentioned to the guide that he was a Chief Pretty Officer Retired. The guide turned to me, and said, 'carry on son , but don't make it obvious.' Love The Victory. Love Pompey. Love The Navy.
Indeed, great to hear this beautiful tale!
speechless, wat a craftmanship, england can be extremely proud to have this beauty so well preserved
Have visited her many times, a magnificent ship.
Don’t forget she has also survived the ravages of two world wars.
Pompey (Portsmouth) and the dockyard is a great place to visit and has lots to see. If you haven’t visited, do so you won’t be disappointed.
Wow! What a great video. I'll likely never get to visit the Victory but your walk through is the next best thing. This might be the best video in the world for seeing this historic ship. Thank you very much.
Its the most beautiful ship in the world and very popular. Pity you can't see it. We also have the Mary Rose with all its artefacts, The Iron Warrior and the only surviving ship from world war one on display. Add to that the D Day museum, Royal Marines museum and Royal Navy museums and other relics and you have yourself a very good reason to visit Portsmouth. UK obviously.
@@PompeyChris71 I was there in 2018 and enjoyed Portsmouth very much so, I had a bit of trouble touring the HMS Victory as your sailers in the day were not 6 + feet tall, only bumped my head a few times. ;-) VERY impressive ship with lots of history
@@PompeyChris71 I'm fairly sure that other world war one vessels have survived.
If my memory serves me there's an old dreadnought in America and something in Japan.
Thanks for the wonderful tour! I missed my chance to do it myself when I was in the UK for foreign study many years ago. I am thrilled that she is in such fine preservation.
Andrew Borromey ii
Go again. England and Victory are still there.
Imagine sailing on this ship with a full crew .
Just awesome
Imagine being a pirate and seeing this on the horizon. Crap your pants wouldn't you
@@AverageAlien Well, no if your pirate ship was faster and more manoeuvrable. And they usually were, because pirates needed fast vessels to intercept their prey, not huge and slow 1st-rate ship of the line, built for frontal fleet battles, not privateering.
@@SilverJackLeg Fast ship or not, this thing would shred your ship and turn it into a bunch of splintered wood
@@AverageAlien IF your ship is within the range of their cannons (around 1500 yards max) - hence the speed as factor, to keep your ship outside of this range. Ships of this class were big and clumsy, made for two-column warfare, relying also on the existence of the rest of the fleet. The 74 was considered the golden middle ground between firepower and mobility. The standard privateering tactic in one-on-one fight was based on manoeuvrability - if the smaller vessel (like a brigantine) could sneak up (darkness, fog, terrain, trick...) to a larger vessel, it could attack it's stern and disable it's rudder. And if a bigger ship cannot turn to aim their guns at you, they cannot hit you, can they?
@@SilverJackLeg But they have rear facing cannons too no?
Horrific to think that 15 Royal Marines were all cut in half by a single chained cannonball on that upper deck.😮
Nice video tour! What a national treasure! Back in those days of the 1700s, the huge size and expense of these triple-decker, 100 plus gun, First-Rate, Ships-Of-The-Line, like the Victory, is equivalent to what an aircraft carrier would be today. 🇬🇧☝️
It cost .5% of GDP to bulls also...
Build
Great walk through of the oldest naval ship still in commission in the world :) Long may she remain so!
She is actually much larger than I imagined!
Yes, HMS Victory (1765) is the oldest naval ship still in commission in the world. She was placed in dry dock in 1922. The oldest naval ship AFLOAT still in commission in the world is the USS Constitution (1797).
@@4thamendment237 no one asked
Thats the best impression of a CGI camera i've seen... really smooth. Great video and it must be useful to a lot of people. Brought back memories of visiting it when at school as well.
absolutely god dam amazing, the craftsmanship, the engineering, its truly a marvel and something to behold! My only complaint is the on ship gift shop, do they really think that is necessary on such a magnificent piece of history?
YES the tacky gift shop stays-they need the money so they can keep this magnificent piece of history intact as far as possible, and so we can go see it inside and outside, and take our selfies...
I love the UK too and hope that it can preserve as much of its ancient heritage and culture as possible. In fact I wish that for all of Europe. European culture deserves to be preserved . However, as a foreigner I try to stay clear of other countries' politics. We have enough going on now in the USA as it is. I do not know how old you are but if you are anywhere near my age and, I assume you are German, it means that possibly my dad may have tried to kill your dad in WWII and vice versa. But that was a very long time ago. And here we are chatting on TH-cam about a historical British warship! Maybe that's called "Progress?"
Ancestrally, I'm Frisian, German, Scandanavian and Belgian, but im from America, 45 years old, while I agree to some extent to stay out of the politics of other countries, however. When I see the immigration nonsense and the destruction of all of Europe, I just can't keep my disdain about it to myself.
I have visited the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, all the Scandinavian countries and just about all of Western Europe in my 69 years of life. I enjoyed being in every one of them; even when I did not speak their languages and vice versa. Western culture and civilization must be preserved. I wish I had a painless, quick and easy solution to the immigration messes in Europe and the USA but I do not. And certainly our politicians just seem to make the situation worse. We have just got to do better than the" status quo" which= DISASTER
The people of the UK took power into their own hands with the BREXIT vote, defying their own politicians and the media pundits. Do not despair-Nothing is inevitable. The British people have the habit in their long history of somehow getting the job done when the time comes (even though it may take a little longer than expected). Good luck to you and yours and please do pray for AMERICA.
Thanks to you and others who share their experiences and videos of places that people like myself would otherwise never be able to visit. I so love clipper ships and sailing vessels of all types.
Thank you for the excellent video - steady, well paced, no crap music or cheesy voice over...!
This is a very well made video. It's as if one was taking a personal tour of this historic British Naval Ship of Line. Thank you for posting it here.
What strikes me about this video is that it seems everyone is free to walk about this historic ship practically wherever they choose. On both occasions when I was aboard, tourists like myself were led about in groups to the various areas of the ship by sailors of the Royal Navy. This independent walking around is I guess allowed now but it was not when I visited the ship about 20 years ago.
yes, we visited in 2017 and we had free reign to wander about. certain areas were out of bounds and cordoned off but we could go up or down as we pleased so please come back and visit again if you can!!
DAVID Marshall you have the same name as 1 of my friends lol
Very impressive.
Much bigger than I thought it was.
I won't ever have to visit this museum-ship, all due to existence of this video. Thanks, uploader!
Thank you so much for taking the time to film and post this! She’s still a beauty!
Always wanted to see the inside of one of these ships! After reading many novels this is exactly how I imagined it! Thank you!
The HMS Victory represents the proud era of the Royal Navy.
Can you imagine in the times, going out on a binge drink in Portsmouth one night, & waking up on a ship like this the next day? LOL.
A forefather of mine Cpt Gewan Hamilton was captain of Hms Havannah. He was stationed at St Helena where he was custodian of Bonaparte during his imprisonment there. People of that generation were incredible. The family settled in Capetown and we are still here.
Wonderful video. We have just returned from Portsmouth having so many nice memories, also from the visit of Victory. Masterpiece conected with British history.
This ship is absolutely magnificent......
I was born in Portsmouth (Home of HMS Victory) in the late 1950's. My father was a Royal Navy officer and first took me to see it when I was four years old, by the time I was ten years old I had been on it more than 100 times. Every school holiday when it rained, on the bikes and down the the dockyard, onto Victory, any moment of boredom, onto victory. The talks that the Royal Marines gave during the group tour were great, lots of 'gory battle detail'. Where are the greasy mop heads that hung on ropes holding up the tables by the guns, crew would wipe their greasy hands on it after eating stew etc and at the end of the week they would all be dropped in the main stew pot to add flavour. Pretty much how they make McDonald's these days. The best thing was it was free!!!! It was still free in my early twenty's. Looking at this video brings mixed feelings, all of the masts and rigging are missing, one guesses for renovation. The top few lower decks have been sanitised with white gloss paint which has totally removed the feeling of how it would of felt from 1765 when it was launched through to the early 1800's and onto to The battle of Trafalgar in 1805. I recommend reading up on how Nelson won that battle, the way he had the gun ports open on one side as they closed on the French fleet, French ready their guns to fire at the Open ports. Coming at the french at right angles the starboard ports open, the French man the guns on their port side but Nelson sailed thru the line firing at the stern's and forward's of the French ships where there were only light guns aimed at the RN ships. At the west end of Portsdown hill over looking Portsmouth harbour there is a less well known 'Nelsons Column' the place where Nelson looked out onto the harbour before he boarded HMS Victory for the last time. Family Sunday roast dinner gatherings when I was very young were filled with all the gory details of HMS Victory, "Mum...do you know why the lowest deck in Victory was painted red...it's where the surgeons went to work during battles" but i would go into the full details given by the Royal Marine guide that week :-)
Thanks for the picture painting.
Even by today's standards this is a huge warship. What is so impressive is the massive size of the various wooden structures. It leaves you wondering how the wood was actually cut and shaped with the technology and machines of the period. All things considered it's fairly mind boggling that royal shipyards could have built the Victory some two centuries ago, almost entirely of wood, and it still appears like it could sail today.
Wow, thanks for that reply, it's really great when someone gives you a technical answer that not only clears up everything but makes you feel stupid for commenting in the first place.
Now that stellvia hoenheim has told us that "wood isn't that hard to cut" I can go ahead with my project of building a half sized replica of the HMS Victory in my back yard. It should be a piece of cake...seeing how wood ain't that hard to cut n'all. With maybe a few friends, a saw or two, and my twelve year old daughter, I figure I can get it knocked out in a couple of weekends.
Thanks, stellvia, for you riveting and detailed explanation of how they actually built the Victory back in the day. Just think, without your extraordinary enlightenment on the subject I would still be impressed by what was accomplished in British shipyards in the 18th century. Now, thanks to you of course, I know it wasn't a big deal at all. I can't thank you enough for your input. I am humbled by your expertise.
Eric Mowrey This is an incredibly sassy reply and I love it.
Green oak is indeed easy to cut. Just put over thousand man/child work years on it. Don't forget It's a child of the industrial revolution so two thousand by todays standard.
Wood for ships was part of our problems with Great Britain that led to the revolution. For example, all White Pines were considered the property of the King and we could not cut them down -- they were needed for masts for ships. They didn't consider how to get 140' long logs across the frontier and to the shipyards.
@@ericmowrey6872
Brilliant reply Eric.
Victory was built in Chatham Dockyard in South East England.
The Dock where she was built is still there, a team of 150 men were used to build the frame of Victory, around 6,000 trees were used in construction of this ship mostly oak but also elm, pine, and fir.
Once the frame was built it was covered up and left for a few months to dry out, but because us and the frogs got bored of knocking the crap out of one another, she was left for almost three years.
Foresters, could identify trees and shape some of them as they grew to fit different parts of the ship. The website of the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth is pretty good for any information that you might want.
Thank you for this wonderful tour. I know it must be a bit of a hassle to film while you are visiting but it is awesome for me, couple thousands miles away, to have to honor to see and experience this amazing ship.
I wouldn't have expected such a high level of carpentry finish on a warship. Beautiful.
Possibly one of the finest ships ever built.
Amazing to know that this ship is older than the usa.
Lots of things are older than the United States in America tbh, it being such a new country.
HMS Victory was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. It was designed by Sir Thomas Slade and built at Chatham Dockyard. Over 2000 oak trees were used in the construction of the hull - equivalent to 60 acres of forest. The final cost was £63,176 (over £50 million today). HMS Victory was Lord Nelson's flagship in his victory at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. It was also the place of his death when he was mortally wounded by a sniper during the battle.
The coolest ship ever built. Awesome
I had no idea that this glorious ship was still in existence! I'm so 😊, I'm visiting it the next time I'm abroad.
I’m here after jus recently watching “Master and Commander” for the FIRST time! Crazy to think people lived and worked on this beautiful piece of machinery out on the open sea.
What I find amazing is the size of this warship a true tribute to what men can do and what England had I could imagine the fear this warship must of put into other Nations,, She is absolutely Magnificent,,👍👍😄😄
Absolutely astonishing and astounding what Europeans built and achieved, it never fails to amaze. 👏👏👏👏👏💪💪💪🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
These are by Far the most Beautiful n majestic ships to have ever sailed the Oceans, how can any ship look this Beautoful
Thank you for sharing this!! I was able to put together a virtual walkthrough from watching this video along with some other videos. I’m glad that you were able to capture the ship before it’s renovation.
That's a"bloody big ship!!" And then, to imagine it loaded with men, equipment, gear and supplies, under full sail, being driven where needed, in the heat of battle! Damn!!! And; that it's ready for duty, at sea... As a Ship of the Line! Commissioned ... still !!! They meant business, no doubt!!!
Is this the original ship or is it just a replica? Because it looks too clean and perfectly painted since its like 400 years old it should be more dusty
@@nutbuster4204 Hi,
It is the very real original (though very well cared for) "Ship of the Line!" It is still "Commissioned for active duty service!" And, if I remember correctly, it's the only sailing Ship, as such. And, if I remember, it's the same one that Adm. Nelson got killed on. In fact, though it's been a while since I watched this video, I seem to remember that the exact site of his death can be seen in this video.
(And; believe it or not, all of this info coming from and old home-grown guy in Montana, USA. Thus, if you haven't watched the video, please do! I am still left aghast by the shear immensity of that "bloody big ship!". And, to even being to imagine controlling it affectively through a Naval battle; or, much less, to imagine trying to blow it out of the water, with all those guns shooting at me, too!
By the way, what's a "Yorker?" [From the old movie about the "Dam Buster's", which referred the Lord Nelson using them, with his cannonballs... Something about bouncing them off the water, to get more of a final upward trajectory, of the cannonballs, as they hit lower into a ship's hull... I'm assuming?...].).
Anyway! Damn, that's a bloody big ship. (There's just something about the way that sounds! I like it.)
Semper Fi, to liberty!
@@johnheigis83 no its not and is a replica. Lmao the uss constitution is the oldest ship on active duty..
@@marks.c4753 "HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.
She additionally served as Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship.
In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, Great Britain, and preserved as a museum ship. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission, with 243 years' service as of 2021." - Wikipedia
@@Timathius17 I could careless old irionsides is still the oldest commissioned ship in the world.
This is Sacred Ground!
Ahhh man many, many, many, thanks for the video wonderful highly detailed 4k format thanks again, cheers!
Been on a tour of this great ship. Something not to be missed. Loved the tour.
It is difficult to imagine, that men lived, fought and died here.
Very interesting video. Thank you.
I've never seen this ship and I'm a history nerd thank you so much for sharing this with us! What a beautiful ship tho
Go to England and see it for yourself. Its a great country for history nerds of all persuasions.
haha it was beautiful when it was made
now its junk
they ruined that ship
I've visited the Victory at Portsmouth's historic dockyard many times and I'm always surprised by how small it is. Life on board these ships of the line must've been incredibly cramped, noisy and hectic.
i fell in love with this ship during the video and i really wish i could live on it and sail on it!
I think that might be fun for a day or so. I think it would be worthwhile to make this "Victory" sea-worthy or build a replica that could provide the sensation.
Nearly every man aboard that ship at it's time had done everything they could to avoid being on that ship for good reason.
@@andywomack3414 Yeah...anybody who wished that he was aboard a Napoleonic ship of the line doesn't know a thing about history. The brutal discipline, the brutal food,the brutal battles ( try absorbing shards of flying wood into your body)... er no thanks.
@@michellebrown4903 number one it's the army of course it's disciplined and brutal food atleast they still got food and the brutal battles were not that brutal they were naval battles which not many people died in
We have been there a few weeks ago and, as our tickets are valid for 1 year we will most likely go back there before they expire. Seeing the historic docyard in Portsmouth was to us as important as seeing everything else that counts in human history.
Simply amazing. Built with hand tools and elbow grease. Different men indeed.
G. B. had the best cabinet-makers and shipwrights in the world. The French were also excellent at ship building, but the gold star goes to Britain. This ship (The Victory) is just astounding. Consider that, for all it's evident beauty as a ship, and the unsurpassed skill that went into its construction, it's principle function was to fire cannon balls and be fired at by cannon balls. Which would do horrific damage to all that fine woodwork.
Absolutely! Chatham Dockyard had the BEST shipwrights in the world!
French built great ships without doubt, but the crews that sailed them were 2nd rate when compared British.
41 french didn't like this video.
7./JG26_Daz lol
nearly half of them maybe spanish :v
I'm disappointed the masts are stubbed out and all tops, yards, sheets and sails removed. Looks like a dog with no legs.
vive l'empereur
vive napoléon
13:35 What is that and why is it in the ship?
Was it in the ship since the construction?
@@florjanbrudar692 ну жратву где-то должны были готовить.
ship's galley - where all the sailors' meals were cooked
So much more than I ever imagined. The thickness and spacing of those sturdy beams is why she is still here today. What a glorious testament to a seafaring nation.
As to some of the comments below, well what a shame how quickly we spiral off into petty bickering when the topic ought to be about this ship or at least something to do with sailing the 7 seas.
Did this tour myself last year and truly humbling
"WE SHALL BEAT TO QUARTERS!"
"Never mind the manoeuvres, just go straight at 'em."
@@mdcraig62 good show, m'Lord, good show
I wonder what other 23 year olds are in the bath with a bottle of red watching old ship videos or am I just fking insane
I'm a little scared how accurately you've pinned me. Minus the wine and plus a book, you've nailed me perfectly.
2:30 in the morn, here I am
I tried that once... But as it turns out phones don't float. So like I said, I tried that once. xD
I’m 25 and I don’t drink at all lol, not even a drop ever. I watch these videos sober. Which of us is insane? Lol
i also wathch it in bath, but not with a glas of wine
Thanks very much for the video. I always wanted to visit the Victory so I could finish my model that I have been building for years!
Im to building the HMS Victory so it was a great view for me and the colours of today thanks
Beautiful ship packed with history and a fantastic tour. It is a must see if you are into naval history.
Thank you for the well paced tour of this ship.
Crazy something that big and heavy even being able to float. The belly of the ship was pretty neat. Great walk threw, thanks. 👍
Its not about weight, its about water displacement and other such things.
US super carriers are made of steel and heavier by 100,000 tons. Plus wood floats better than steel.
not a huge fan of the new exit and warning signs , kinds of ruins the ship
that is nanny state health & safety Britain for you
to bad they have to have those....something with laws and stupidity of mankind
nedthegreat6 this is not the real ship of the victory. They were not built for luxury in that time period and they were not built this nice or this huge so far people quite going there it is a lie look in your history books no ship back then was built like this all ships were built the same, same length and height and weight all over the world.
Maybe you should take your own advice and "read" a history book once in a while.
jesus dude, punctuation, this diarrhea of word is unreadable.
AC4: oh she’s a beast
Very well done! Fascinating! So many nooks and crannies...kept wondering what's that for, stay on that item for awhile! Guess that's just the difference between the camera and human eye! Really enjoyed it! Have been on a tour of another old ship, but nothing like the HMS victory!
Terrific upload, thanks for taking me there🍀.
Красивый корабль, хорошо сохранили историю, спасибо за обзор такой редкой достопримечательности👍
правь Британия морями!
It would be lovely to see HMS Victory back on the water again with its masts up and ready and the whole ship restored and sailing again please no hate comments
Be a bit difficult with her being stuck in concrete.
Great camera work!
I am truly impressed with it's size. The decks are so large and open.
I am always in awe when I get to experience historical places like this. In my mind I can see the activity of the era around me, and in my soul I can feel the energy. It fills me with a deep sense of respect for those who lived through moments, in which most people thoughtlessly refer to as "History".
Very cool, yet sad. I loved being able to see inside this amazing ship. The size is staggering... however, it really seems like they've went overboard with the museum portion. I found myself unable to tell what was originally the ship and what was added for tourists. It made the entire thing feel kinda like a museum built to represent an old ship rather than an actual ship that existed. Still cool though.