HMS Victory

Yeah.

HMS Victory.

Ones that are more stationary sort of thing.

'Cause those-

Yeah

... going for a long, long time.

Well, although it's static, I may get corrected, I think HMS Victory is still the flagship of the Royal Navy.

She is, yeah.

In the same kind of vein, we're doing the same sort of thing.

Okay, we don't have a 74 ship gun ship of the line to go toe-to-toe with the HMS Victory.

We just, we just don't have that.

But we don't need to.

I looked this up.

The HMS Victory, Nelson's ship in which you won great battles, is only six feet long, about the same height as me.

But it's under 3% of the entire length of this huge warship.

A tiny, tiny part steers huge ships.

... triangulated and worked out things.

Then it went back to England, and it was put on the Victory, HMS Victory, which was l- later used by Napoleon in the French Wars, but it was used in some, uh, earlier French wars and used for plot there.

So it was a fairly famous clock.

Watch.

I mean, the, the Royal Navy expands hugely during the Revolutionary-Napoleonic Wars.

By 1810, it's about 550 ships, and they range from big, kind of like HMS Victory-type ships, three-decker warships, down to small.

I mean, The Bounty is officially, it's not a HMS, it's a H, His Majesty's Armed Vessel.

It's a smaller thing.

Still sailing, all three of those ones.

Don't come at me with your HMS Victory nonsense or your USS Constitution-

Constitution or Constellation, both of them can get fucked.

Yeah, they can get absolutely fucked.

It was the longest warship in the world when it was launched.

Absolutely vast, and it is three times the length of HMS Victory, which was Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar, fought around 50 years before.

But I also think how traditional it looks, even though it's all made out of iron.

It was the most cutting-edge ship ever built.

So they are working out how successfully they've combined those characteristics, um, in one ship.

And then as the public at large start saying, "Hang on a minute, we're spending quite a lot of money on the Navy," the Navy finds itself, um, with a PR issue, and she's a fantastic PR tool.

So whereas, um, our other ships, HMS Victory, HMS Caroline, are very famous for the battles they fought in, um, the absolute highlight of Warrior's, um, career is a four-month period in the middle of 1863 where they send her off round the country and over 300,000 people get on board the ship, with 15,000 people a day as tourists wandering from the captain's bathroom down through the stokeholds, and anywhere you can imagine in between.

This is the heart of the ship.

El naufragio del Batavia fue finalmente descubierto siglos después y los artefactos recuperados cuentan la historia de la expansión marítima neerlandesa Pero también documentan el lado más oscuro de la naturaleza humana cuando las personas tienen miedo, están desesperadas y se encuentran aisladas.

El HMS Victory, buque insignia de Nelson, es lo opuesto a la mayoría de los naufragios.

No permaneció en el fondo del océano.

Después de resultar dañado en batalla, fue reparado y finalmente retirado del servicio, y después se mantuvo deliberadamente a flote como barco museo.