True seaman in the old sense of the word, able to read the weather and know when to take in or set more canvas,the masters were for the most part as it says masters of their trade, and as such have my utmost respect
There is a sister ship to the Royal Clipper that was finished 3 years ago and was just docked due to legal issues of ownership. I believe it will commence sailing this year with a larger crew and passenger capacity Overall length is around 50 feet more than the Royal but the design is identical. I spent 2 weeks on the Royal last year from Venice yo the Riviera and loved it.
In 1936 L'Avenir was sold to Hamburg-America Line (HAPAG), Germany. Then was renamed to Admiral Karpfanger and on her first trip under German flag, she vanished with the loss of all 60 crewmen and cadets aboard, in March 1938. Probably near New Zealand...
Great story. I have watched video from sailing ships going around the cape. It is way too awesome. You had to be brave to work on a ship like that going around the horn.
My grandfather sailed over from Germany in a four masted ship like some of these I see. About halfway here a great wave washed him off the ship! But the next wave put him back on the ship! When he came to America he became a minister after that!!
My grand father also served on tall ships before becoming a minister in the church of Scotland ,his first parish as a junior was Leith but he ended up as the Glasgow Fire Brigade Chaplin so was carried to the Necropolis on the back of a Fire enjoin. (Honor guard) I Don't know how many masts he sailed under but it would have been earlier than most of these as he would have started as a child sailor and by 1901 when Queen victoria died he was 31.he had my mum aged 56 I think, and I'm 62
Your comment caused me to reflect that many Germans settled on chile in this period - though mostly way down in the south. Was there a connection between the nitrate clippers and the German diaspora to sudamerica?
The best narrative of sailing on those ships is this one. Four Masted Barque rounding Cape Horn 1928 - Captain Irving th-cam.com/video/ZLzBDhilDL0/w-d-xo.html For German speakers there is this same in German th-cam.com/video/gnBCM28TXho/w-d-xo.html
It's not truly exact in Naval Architecture because nobody increases all the dimensions by the same factor. For a displacement boat the most important factor is the length as it's the first limiting element of speed, second it's the width of the hull, third the depth plus the hull lines. If you have enough righting torque the best if you want a good speed is to have a long slim hull with sweet lines (less drag) and you'll need less surface sail by ton to achieve the desired speed, another advantage you get better mean speeds. You add the factors limiting the size of the masts. So the law cube/square does not apply directly. Furthermore, the same law plus the laws of mechanical inertia permits lighter hulls while having a larger volume. After that, the design depends of the speed you need. A tea ship making China or India to England was a racer able of 18 knots like the Cutty Sark. A bulk carrier of guano or any bulk merchandise between Chile and Europe by the Horn did not need so high speed, but had to be seaworthy and "easy" to tune specially sails by a small crew, although these boats often got excellent mean speeds..
It's not WTF. It's called LTA nowadays. A line-throwing apparatus (LTA) is a self-contained device that shoots a rocket projectile to a considerable distance while attached to a line. It is mostly used during rescue operations but sometimes on a ship-to-ship transfer where normal methods of contact using heaving lines don't work.
@@uasupply we have a joke in Canada that comes from a TV show called 'Trailer Park Boys.' They say "it's not rocket appliances!" (instead of rocket science)
Can't remember where I read it, but I understood that the Preussen wasn't popular with her crew, who found her a real pain to work compared with the four masted barques that comprised the bulk of the Flying P fleet.
Please read the description. It is indeed claimed that the Royal Clipper is the largest "true sailing ship" built since Preussen. Her design was based on the Preussen. But the Royal Clipper is a cruise ship and it has an engine. Is there a difference in going to sea under sail only or under sail knowing you have an engine?
@@uasupply "The only five-masted, full-rigged sailing ship ever built" is NOT TRUE, ! Also Your statement, that the Royal Clipper is a cruise ship and has an engine, doesn't change this untrue statement! Sorry, but that a "true" sailing ship should be a ship without engine, is no definition!
With all respect, "a "true" sailing ship should be a ship without engine, is no definition!" Actually it is. The Official COLREGs Rule 3 (General definitions) (c) The term "sailing vessel" means any vessel under sail provided that propelling machinery, if fitted, is not being used. Ok, at least let Preussen be the first, alright?
There are more than a dozen five masted ships listed on Wikipedia. "Wyoming" was an American wooden six-masted schooner built and completed in 1909 by the firm of Percy & Small in Bath, Maine. Why a fully rigged schooner is not considered a fully rigged ship is beyond me!
I think, they are just in different categories. And full-rigged ship is usually considered square-rigged on all of masts. Just compare the sail area of Preussen of 6,806 m2 to Wyoming's 3,700 m².
For cars, a coupe is not a sedan, and neither is a wagon. It’s a uniform naming convention to distinguish, by name, the type of sail layout and rigging of a ship. A sloop, is not a ketch, which is not a yawl. A Brig is not a Barquentine, which is not a Barque, which is not a fully rigged ship, which is not a schooner. Sometimes the number of masts matter i the naming conventions, sometimes not. Welcome to the world of sailing and ships!
@@stogierob What carries the type name has changed over the centuries. USS Constitution is a frigate and so was USS Brumby FF-1044 (my old ship) but they share nothing in common.
@@steven4315 the USS Constitution is a three masted, fully rigged ship. Her warship classification as a frigate meant that she was smaller than a fifth rate ship of the line, but larger than a sloop of war. In decades prior, a frigate would have been called a sixth rate. Frigates of the time were single gundeck ships. The Constitution was one of the largest at 44 24-pound cannon. The smallest frigates could have between 22-26 12-pound cannon. Size and armament had more to do with the military classification of a ship. There were several different sail plans and ship designs that could all be grouped into a military classification. The Constitution and your frigate likely served in similar roles within the fleets of their respective times.
In this day and age AI would have done it better. I am still human, don't worry, reading a lot of material and using various resources to prepare this video for the sake of preserving maritime history and industry. For the voiceover I am using available resources, simply because my accent you will not understand at all. I make these videos for free, you want to watch them for free, so apologies for any mispronunciations etc.
Just want to say, to unload a ship with small cranes and rest by hand of a load that is 1000 tons is a hard work !!! and to do it a 5000 ton carrier is different story, 8000 tons to 10 000 tons load, to unload or load by hand in use of human strength.....NO THANKS VERY MUCH !!!! TH
In a rash of logical thinking, very large commercial ships are today being built with sails, to supplement the engines with - gasp! - fashionably sustainable wind power, which is kind of satisfying, to us luddites. We will, one day employ solar sails, and start tacking around the solar system, probably to mine the asteroid belt, cos there's gold in them thar 'roids, and it needs freedom!
The unnatural accents, weird pacing, and bad pronunciation are dead giveaways that whoever did this video was either careless or clueless and relied on bad AI.
What about human garbage? What in your comment refers to sailing ships? What have you done for the maritime industry? You don't even seem to understand what AI is to be able to identify anything. The text and videos are created by experienced sailor who spend time researching and editing the videos. And it doesn't take much human intelligence to realize that a voiceover tool is being used since the author is not a native speaker.
True seaman in the old sense of the word, able to read the weather and know when to take in or set more canvas,the masters were for the most part as it says masters of their trade, and as such have my utmost respect
Im quite fascinated by tall ships. Imagine how the largest of these must have looked like in full rig. Magnificent!
Imagine being a seaman on one of these, when rounding the Horn your duty involved scampering up and down the rigging in huge seas.
Royal clipper based on this ship. Been on it twice. Awesome.
There is a sister ship to the Royal Clipper that was finished 3 years ago and was just docked due to legal issues of ownership. I believe it will commence sailing this year with a larger crew and passenger capacity Overall length is around 50 feet more than the Royal but the design is identical. I spent 2 weeks on the Royal last year from Venice yo the Riviera and loved it.
Very cool one of the few cruises i would take I've sailed square riggers my whole life at different times but nothing like this
this is a good channel, have a good day. from my SV in Alaska.
Thank you very much!
Such a sad story about a beautiful ship.... My father sailed aboard the L'Avenir many years ago, another four masted Barque....
In 1936 L'Avenir was sold to Hamburg-America Line (HAPAG), Germany. Then was renamed to Admiral Karpfanger and on her first trip under German flag, she vanished with the loss of all 60 crewmen and cadets aboard, in March 1938. Probably near New Zealand...
Great Video Thanks!
Thank you!
Danke für das tolle Video. und vergiss die ganzen Klugscheisser, die sich über die Aussprache des Schiffsnamen aufregen.
Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung und Ihr Verständnis
@@uasupply Where did you go to school if you did not know pronunciation of this very well known and popular German word?
No, before releasing this video to the international public, he should correct all mistakes. I just hate sloppy people.
Yes, sir. It's hard not to be sloppy under bombs and gunfire. Relax, strict teacher. th-cam.com/video/6K8G3ErWOp8/w-d-xo.html
Very well presented history. No nonsense. Thank you
Thank you!
Five masts, Jeremy .
Thats insane.
So many great ships die in a tragic way, Preussen was one of them. I have a model of this ship in my living room.
Great story. I have watched video from sailing ships going around the cape. It is way too awesome. You had to be brave to work on a ship like that going around the horn.
Thank you! It's really incredible to sail on such ships.
Great video.
Thank you!
My grandfather sailed over from Germany in a four masted ship like some of these I see. About halfway here a great wave washed him off the ship! But the next wave put him back on the ship! When he came to America he became a minister after that!!
Incredible story!😳
My grand father also served on tall ships before becoming a minister in the church of Scotland ,his first parish as a junior was Leith but he ended up as the Glasgow Fire Brigade Chaplin so was carried to the Necropolis on the back of a Fire enjoin. (Honor guard)
I Don't know how many masts he sailed under but it would have been earlier than most of these as he would have started as a child sailor and by 1901 when Queen victoria died he was 31.he had my mum aged 56 I think, and I'm 62
Your comment caused me to reflect that many Germans settled on chile in this period - though mostly way down in the south. Was there a connection between the nitrate clippers and the German diaspora to sudamerica?
after getting all the ropes and sails for this beast there was none left for anyone else lol
1:46 - Hard to imagine this low-slung monster surviving a winter storm on the North Atlantic.
Well shiver me timbers.
To counter balance that amount of sail gives you an idear of the massive cargo they carried.
The ship 's name is NOT pronounced Proosen! It is correctly pronounced Proysen
They're schweinhunds. 😂
I thought something similar but 'Proysen' might be pronounced 'Preusn'. Maybe 'Proyzen' would be closer.
He also calls the stern the stem.
@@BaronFeydRautha Because that is the stem, that's been damaged.
Sad end to a great ship, the men that sailed these ships were MEN, superb seaman. I have nothing but total respect and admiration for them
48 meaning 24 on each watch god on heaven the men managing those sails with so few hands round the horn no less
Love the name. Not crusin but but Prussen.
Imagine a ship that size in a hurricane with sails down. They might not sink but just get beat to death.😮
Is the narration AI? Because the cadence is really weird. Like pauses in the middle of a sentence
Something like that
The best narrative of sailing on those ships is this one. Four Masted Barque rounding Cape Horn 1928 - Captain Irving
th-cam.com/video/ZLzBDhilDL0/w-d-xo.html
For German speakers there is this same in German
th-cam.com/video/gnBCM28TXho/w-d-xo.html
Ah, Brits, they see a large German ship and just can't help themselves sinking it.
This is alot cooler than disney boat
The hull can be increased by the cube but the sail is increased by the square. So the diminishing returns kick in.
It's not truly exact in Naval Architecture because nobody increases all the dimensions by the same factor. For a displacement boat the most important factor is the length as it's the first limiting element of speed, second it's the width of the hull, third the depth plus the hull lines. If you have enough righting torque the best if you want a good speed is to have a long slim hull with sweet lines (less drag) and you'll need less surface sail by ton to achieve the desired speed, another advantage you get better mean speeds.
You add the factors limiting the size of the masts. So the law cube/square does not apply directly. Furthermore, the same law plus the laws of mechanical inertia permits lighter hulls while having a larger volume.
After that, the design depends of the speed you need. A tea ship making China or India to England was a racer able of 18 knots like the Cutty Sark. A bulk carrier of guano or any bulk merchandise between Chile and Europe by the Horn did not need so high speed, but had to be seaworthy and "easy" to tune specially sails by a small crew, although these boats often got excellent mean speeds..
7:28 WTF is a "ROCKET APPLIANCE?"
It's not WTF. It's called LTA nowadays. A line-throwing apparatus (LTA) is a self-contained device that shoots a rocket projectile to a considerable distance while attached to a line. It is mostly used during rescue operations but sometimes on a ship-to-ship transfer where normal methods of contact using heaving lines don't work.
@@uasupply we have a joke in Canada that comes from a TV show called 'Trailer Park Boys.'
They say "it's not rocket appliances!"
(instead of rocket science)
Oh,ok. I see 😀👍
I can't fathom the amount and type of ropes and pulleys used on that thing !
And the crew knew each line, in the dark.
I couldn't tackle the number of blocks they purchased.
The flying P liners may be bulky but they were incredibly fast.
Yes, and this is amazing!
Can't remember where I read it, but I understood that the Preussen wasn't popular with her crew, who found her a real pain to work compared with the four masted barques that comprised the bulk of the Flying P fleet.
Interesting, thanks!
Hey, native danish speaker here.
Probs on your attempt at pronouncing København, closest i've heard on youtube.
😀
You misspelled "Royal Clipper."
The only one? . . . and which type of ship is the Royal Clipper?
Please read the description. It is indeed claimed that the Royal Clipper is the largest "true sailing ship" built since Preussen. Her design was based on the Preussen. But the Royal Clipper is a cruise ship and it has an engine. Is there a difference in going to sea under sail only or under sail knowing you have an engine?
@@uasupply "The only five-masted, full-rigged sailing ship ever built" is NOT TRUE, ! Also Your statement, that the Royal Clipper is a cruise ship and has an engine, doesn't change this untrue statement! Sorry, but that a "true" sailing ship should be a ship without engine, is no definition!
With all respect, "a "true" sailing ship should be a ship without engine, is no definition!" Actually it is. The Official COLREGs Rule 3 (General definitions) (c) The term "sailing vessel" means any vessel under sail provided that propelling machinery, if fitted, is not being used.
Ok, at least let Preussen be the first, alright?
Not quite true- the SV ROYAL CLIPPER, launched in 2000, is a sailing cruise ship based in the PREUSSEN, and is also a five- masted full-rigged ship.
You are really right 👍
It’s great that the PREUSSEN, which had such a short life, has been re-created.
There are more than a dozen five masted ships listed on Wikipedia. "Wyoming" was an American wooden six-masted schooner built and completed in 1909 by the firm of Percy & Small in Bath, Maine. Why a fully rigged schooner is not considered a fully rigged ship is beyond me!
I think, they are just in different categories. And full-rigged ship is usually considered square-rigged on all of masts. Just compare the sail area of Preussen of 6,806 m2 to Wyoming's 3,700 m².
As noted in the video, only full rigged square rigged ship.
For cars, a coupe is not a sedan, and neither is a wagon. It’s a uniform naming convention to distinguish, by name, the type of sail layout and rigging of a ship. A sloop, is not a ketch, which is not a yawl. A Brig is not a Barquentine, which is not a Barque, which is not a fully rigged ship, which is not a schooner. Sometimes the number of masts matter i the naming conventions, sometimes not. Welcome to the world of sailing and ships!
@@stogierob What carries the type name has changed over the centuries. USS Constitution is a frigate and so was USS Brumby FF-1044 (my old ship) but they share nothing in common.
@@steven4315 the USS Constitution is a three masted, fully rigged ship. Her warship classification as a frigate meant that she was smaller than a fifth rate ship of the line, but larger than a sloop of war. In decades prior, a frigate would have been called a sixth rate. Frigates of the time were single gundeck ships. The Constitution was one of the largest at 44 24-pound cannon. The smallest frigates could have between 22-26 12-pound cannon.
Size and armament had more to do with the military classification of a ship. There were several different sail plans and ship designs that could all be grouped into a military classification.
The Constitution and your frigate likely served in similar roles within the fleets of their respective times.
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How come all the strange mispronunciations and odd cadences? Is this video related by an AI?
In this day and age AI would have done it better. I am still human, don't worry, reading a lot of material and using various resources to prepare this video for the sake of preserving maritime history and industry. For the voiceover I am using available resources, simply because my accent you will not understand at all. I make these videos for free, you want to watch them for free, so apologies for any mispronunciations etc.
Might be a bit difficult to single hand
Read 'The Last Grain Race' by Eric Newby.
How the f do you crash on the ocean without simple recklessness?
Pronounced "Proi-sen" not "Prue-sen" (if English is your language).
The largest ships are from pre ancient China , it's a bit unknowingly from all western countries
Sorry Guy's apparently you have never heard of the 5 masted ship the Nancy that ran aground at Hull, Ma.
The Nancy was a 5 Mast Schooner, the Video is talking about full-rigged ships. The only 5 mast full rig cargo ship was the Preussen.
It would have been nice if the narrator had found out how to pronounce Preussen properly before recording this.
The word is pronounced "PROISSEN".
Just want to say, to unload a ship with small cranes and rest by hand of a load that is 1000 tons is a hard work !!! and to do it a 5000 ton carrier is different story, 8000 tons to 10 000 tons load, to unload or load by hand in use of human strength.....NO THANKS VERY MUCH !!!! TH
Die Preussen, pronounced proyzen. Or, someone help me out. I don't speak German but drank lots of their beer.
Quite good, but with a sharp "s" not with a sounding "z"
In a rash of logical thinking, very large commercial ships are today being built with sails, to supplement the engines with - gasp! - fashionably sustainable wind power, which is kind of satisfying, to us luddites. We will, one day employ solar sails, and start tacking around the solar system, probably to mine the asteroid belt, cos there's gold in them thar 'roids, and it needs freedom!
a great story about a great ship. but, after all the research, you could have made an effort to properly pronounce her name.
Pr-oi-sens
"Proy sen"
Nice video. However, you could have a better try at the pronunciation of German words. Not very difficult in this day and age.
Thank you! I'll work on it.
@@uasupply. Are you a russian? The logo on all your video is in cyrillic.
Triste;
Terrible narration. AI?
The unnatural accents, weird pacing, and bad pronunciation are dead giveaways that whoever did this video was either careless or clueless and relied on bad AI.
If you're going to make a video about the Preussen you might at least research how to pronounce the word correctly.
Ok
Yes in Western history
But late 1500 early 1600s Asia says otherwise
The narration is horrendous
Step up.
GOD BLESS DONALD TRUMP DERKY DERR
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Downvoted for AI voice.
You watched the video didn't you?
@@CharliMorganMusic no. Only about 10 seconds.
Learn to identify AI garbage. The voice is AI, and the way things are worded, this was written with AI as well
What about human garbage? What in your comment refers to sailing ships? What have you done for the maritime industry? You don't even seem to understand what AI is to be able to identify anything. The text and videos are created by experienced sailor who spend time researching and editing the videos. And it doesn't take much human intelligence to realize that a voiceover tool is being used since the author is not a native speaker.