HMS Warrior - Animated Tour

We take the original ship plan of HMS Warrior and animate it to show you around one of the most groundbreaking ships in the history of naval power.
An iron-framed, iron-clad single-gundeck warship, launched in 1860 HMS Warrior defied categorisation and changed the way that seapower was both wielded and imagined. She was built in a period of intense rivalry between Britain and France when technology was advancing so rapidly that innovations existed alongside an entirely realistic fear that new inventions would undermine Britain’s existing naval supremacy.
In this period steam would replace sail for propulsion; iron and then steel would replace wood for construction; exploding shells would replace solid iron shot for armament and they would be fired from rifled, breech loading guns that could fire further than could ever have been imagined. Warrior had more firepower than two standard wood ships of the line.
Remarkably, Warrior still survives: she was decommissioned from active service in 1882, but survived being scrapped. In 1979 the ship was rescued for preservation having served as a fuelling pontoon in South Wales for 50 years. She can now be visited in all of her glory at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth: a most remarkable warship - a technological innovation in the business of war, but which never fired a single shot in anger: and the two were linked: warrior was so superior to any other warship at the time of its construction that its supremacy never had to be challenged in battle: she was the ultimate naval deterrent.
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[@SirDrakeFrancis]

What a jewel from the british technology.

[@shootingwithmitch5921]

Great video! Been on the warrior four times over the years, and she is an epic warship. compared to what came before,, she was on another level entirely!

[@markiliff]

Beautifully done, words as well as images

[@garbancitolentejas486]

Great video! Thank you

[@loisjclark]

Fascinating! What a brilliant ship.

[@95DarkFire]

You forgot to mention that HMS warrior had the first official "bridges" on a warship - two literal bridges over the deck for the officers to stand on. This was because the gunwhales (the "walls" of the deck) were to high to see over.

[@norml.hugh-mann]

I can assure anyone confused that only the funnels were wound up and down, most likely a sheethe of some sort...the boilers themselves were among the heaviest items afloat

[@joeinthebush]

Never fired a shot in anger...
Bet they had a blast test firing a few times though.. and not much for ear muff technology then...

[@degenerateshistorycorner1311]

hey i'm a 3d modelling student, was wondering what other references you used such as line drawings and schemtaics to make an accurate recreation of the ships hull.

[@superbatzbatazr7723]

It was the second metal ship the French built the first

[@greghilditch4623]

Gloire was wooden hulled with iron armour plating (i.e an "Ironclad"), Warrior is iron hulled and armour plated which is what the narrator is referring to.

[@norml.hugh-mann]

Ahhh The French frigate Felacio....named for the preferred leisure activity of French soliders