Drachinifel Hey Drach, I have a semi simple question for you. Apologies if this isn’t where you submit them I can be kinda dumb. What’s the hardest part about running a history channel like this? As always. Great content, your voice puts me to sleep in a great way. I can always put on a video by you and relax and crash after a hard day. I always look forward to that accent at the end of the day. Cheers from Canada!

any chance of a video on the USS Constellation that's in Baltimore? maybe your take on the fight over which Constellation it is?

@@soapjayson3358 Yes. Drach has tapped into "The Bob Ross Effect" here too..

I'd like to ask, given the Royal Navy's habit of naming ships after admirals, do you think it's likely that any ships will be named after WW1 or WW2 admirals any time soon, and if so, would it be fitting for Jackie Fisher to have a ship named after him?

Ah yes, i truly wish i could put pictures on here lol *australia the ship* comes to mind xd

Transmogrification

Frigatification

"The Black Pearl is gone and unless you have a rudder and a lot of sails hidden in that bodice- unlikely" "Not as unlikely as you seem to think" "How in the blazes did you get off that island?" "When you marooned me on that god forsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate: HMS Swann" "You can't beat me, Jack!" *BOOM* Mostly fictional adventures of Nelson's great grandmother.

I was trying to think of the Japanese word which means horse and rider are as one. In this case Nelson and frigate are as one.

@@bigblue6917 You're probably thinking of 人馬一体 jinba ittai

And more the worse for it I say.

There are still some fishermen who will take kids aboard over the summer or winter. I used to spend two weeks in the summer on a fishing boat starting at the age of 12. I wasn't compelled to work, but I did gain some experience in navigation and how to work fishing gear (although the crew loved to torture me by forcing me to gaff fish, which I was terrible at)

Some midshipmen came aboard naval ships as young as ten or even seven years old, so 12 isn't too young for back then

weldonwin Well ‘boy’ was an official Royal Navy rank at the time

@Jacob Zondag But it means that at the age of twenty few you can be in command of a ship. So where is the progress. Most people died well before the age of 60, Kings included. All we've made progress in is that now people who die at age 85 are considered too young, so we need to shut down the economy.

HMS Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB, would ascend from his mortal form to become a frigate.

Yes, also in that class were Ernest E. Evans, William Halsey and Jack Aubrey.

“More or less”

how all good stories start, one time i tryed to go clubbing with a polar bear...

What is wrong with you guys

@@lostsoul5043 A lot, and that's what makes life so fun

This is where the fun begins

Oh my god Nelson you are just stupid as hell. "It's not my fault"

This is the best comment ever. Of all times. 🤣🤣🤣

Is this not exactly what happened at Trafalgar?

I have so many memes in my head when I saw that. "At least I have limes!" oh dear god . . .

@@renardgrise THIS... so much this.

I would’ve liked to have been there for that Persuasive discussion, the Counterpoint must have been epic. The other gentleman with him must have failed out of the school debate team

Even the polar bear in the painting is like "Dude, what the fuck?!"

@@catfish552 hes like bro, you dumb?

Nelson was always picking fights with enemies who outclassed him... he got better at it.

A close second must be at 34:32 "to be honest the more and more you read about his career the more and more I'm convinced he wasn't so much captain Horatio Nelson, royal navy, as he was a time traveling version of captain Leeroy Jenkins, royal navy."

The Laughing Cavalier I hate this. Have a like

The Laughing Cavalier you mean becomes the HMS Victory through a magical girl transformation sequence

Cursed comment.

Don't give the anime producers any ideas! Have a like.

Must be a tsundere too. With at least 1 beach episode where she wears an Union Jack bikini.

LOL

Sure sounds that way

*tilts fan coquettishly* Is that... ship.. flirting with me?

Hmmm, another comment joked about an anime adaptation where Nelson transforms into Victory. But maybe it could be a naval harem romance.

HMS Victory pulled a Mae West...'Why don't ya come up and see me sometime?" [Wink].

that would be a interesting book TBH. i mean they ain't gonna turn a aircraft carrier round for a single kid, middle of the pacific with weeks to the next base could be an intriguing scenario.

​@@larryfoullke219 theyd helicopter him out like they do to very sick people or pregnant women.

I think a royal navy ship would fit better

Drach Expects

confides. the signalman used 'expects' because it worked better in flag-mail days.

Though it seems there are a number of Frenchmen here who disliked!

thanks god i have done my duty

HERE HERE....!!!!

Loetz Collector ah, I see you too have a good taste in comedy

Can you explain who Leeroy Jenkins is?

Burn Stick look it up

@@burnstick1380 Yeah "Jamie Smith" comment is probably best Basically to the best of my understanding, some dude on a server (Think it was World Of Warcraft) was part of a team, the team was suggesting strategy, he wasn't listening ignored all the planning and advice and charged into battle crying "LEEEEROOOOY JENKINNSSSSS" So yeah given that old Horatio allegedly tried to kill a Polar Bear (as well as other things) by waking it with an old rusty musket/rifle, I agree with Drach in it being quite the fair comparison, at least at time's Not knocking Nelsons intelligence, he was just rather gun-hoe as they say, which to be fair is kind of what you need sometimes in a military commander, if Jellicoe had been more like Nelson at Jutland and not turned and run (smartly) from the torpedos launched at his battle fleet, theres at least a chance he could have the added a numerical victory to Britains strategic victory at Jutland.

@@burnstick1380 Lots of videos about the meme, here's one of them: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/hXuBeK56cIaCmIU.html

@@NightHeronProduction Jellicoe, not Beatty. Beatty just commanded the battlecruisers. Jellicoe was in command of the Grand Fleet and it was his stated intention, which he followed when it occurred, to turn away in the face of a torpedo attack to preserve the fleet. Jellicoe was the guy who people said he could lose the war in an afternoon. What that means is that If Jellicoe won a crushing victory not much would change, if he maintained the status quo nothing would change, if he suffered a crushing defeat then the war could well be lost. That being the case, Jellicoe was most focused on not suffering a crushing defeat and while a massive victory would have been nice, the status quo would do in a pinch.

Our Lieutenant's name was Coffin.....

I think it was named, at least I’m hoping, after carcass shot; an early form of incendiary shot.

@@AdmRose correct sir, with time many words have changed their meaning, 'carcass' being one, 'problem' is another example. For the definative book on that subject I recommend "Nelson's Arctic Voyage" by by the near legendary Peter Goodwin, published a couple of years astern. I had the good fortune to be asked to make a painting of HMS Racehorse, for the book. The latter painting and the remarkable story can be seen on my website under 'warships/Nelson & Trafalgar series', enjoy.

@@gordonfrickers5592 How did problem change?

John Fisher 12 year olds, log onto steam and command a fleet or squadron of ships in ETW or NTW.

Yes because we all think child soldiers have wonderful lives. Nelson was a badass and a hero but we should not send preteens to the navy.

I believe you can still find 12 year olds on some country's " tall training ships".

@@ieuanhunt552 Why not?

@@francisdrake6622 because war is horrifying and traumatizing and being a soldier teaches you terrible life lessons for civilian life. You think we have problems with reintegration of veterans into society. Just imagine if a decent amount of them didn't have even high school educations.

Walpole was not the Mastermind of the South Sea Bubble and indeed the was NO master mind of the South Sea Bubble, since no one planned for that to happen. The master mind of the South Sea COMPANY, was a man named John Blunt, who was the one who formed the South Sea Company and was responsible for the resulting financial chicanery. Robert Walpole, actually OPPOSED Blunt, but he did take advantage of the resulting economic and social chaos that followed for his political benefit, making himself Britain's first Prime Minister

Yes,down the rabbit hole with you!

@@weldonwin Walpole is always involved in important events (even if the link is quite minor), and Bismark ALWAYS has a plan.

@@benjaminmiddaugh2729 And the Fortress of Oblivion isn't a good prison.

@@benjaminmiddaugh2729 Bismarck AAAAAALWAYS has a plan.

Then the 6th rate boys arrived!

This is funnier with the new Steel Commanders music video in mind

Dreadnought gang comes steaming in and meet the protagonist's little brother. "And what on earth are you, a ball with sticks, lol" "I'm a naval mine. Hug me." And so the protagonist has to deal with a terrible loss.

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Matt Blom "good point. With 1000 guns we can club them easily!"

Lol

Walruses rule.

Im curious about that engraving of the 2 Bomb vessels in the ice. I thought the Bombs had NO foremast.... (to allow the two 13" mortars to fire forward). perhaps there were different types in service.

@@trooperdgb9722 Good history on Wikipedia under "Bomb vessel". The original bomb ketches with 2 masts aft were so unhandy that the navy switched to massively reinforced small 3 masted ships, although the foremast rigging was often chain instead of rope.

That's why "Erebus" and "Terror" were used for the Ross and Franklin expeditions.

That's a deep rabbit hole to go down. Drach could get hours of content out of that subject and still be a long way from done.

Grown knees? Quite correct. That's why hedge and field trees were more valuable than forest ones - they produced more such timbers.

@@comeslittorissaxonici7395 From what I understand, trees were a huge thing the British wanted in America. They had cut so many down. We had special woods also, like the ones that built the Constitution. We could not build that ship today because that tree is gone forever. Trees for mast here and in Russia was big business. I read where a member of the Navy would go through the woods and chalk or paint or somehow mark a certain part of a certain tree. And if you cut that tree down, it was your ass. Much like right now, they were not thinking about trees 200 years from then. But they did a great job. For me, they had to be one of the most professional organizations of all time.

@@LikeUntoBuddha the us navy actually owns special trees that are just for the Constitution

Pellaeon, is that you?

Not quite. Guy was a bit of a git too.

permission granted

This :)

I see Grand Thumb's comment section is migrating again.

@@spartanalex9006 Where did they go?

History is not WOWS. Don't mistake the two. Drach does rather too much.

I live in Greenland. You do not hunt polar bears with a clumsy club.

@El Bearsidente Which one? There are to my knowledge two books on the subject, The Terror which is more a novel and Erebus, which is more to do with the history of the event and is written by former Python Michael Palin