The Syracusia: Archimedes' Massive Sailing Ship

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[kilotun]

Syracusia: A functional battleship packed to the gunwales with art, marble and statuary.
WH40K's Imperial Navy: *heavy breathing*

[ComaDave]

Sounds like quite a cruise liner/battleship hybrid.
"And for those of our patrons either dining on our al fresco deck or simply taking the air...if you look to your right, you might notice that we are currently assaulting the island of Malta."

[sev]

Zeng He's fleet of "Chinese treasure ships" next? The story of their explorations are quite interesting and are great examples of ancient leviathans.

[RIlianP]

Here is more historical maritime megaprojects that deserve an episode:
- Ming treasure voyages (largest fleet in the world at the time)
- Vasa (e.g. Gustavus Adolphus biggest blunder) the one of the biggest and most powerful ships of the era that sunk on its maiden voyage due to piss poor engineering.
- Wyoming (schooner)the largest wooden ship ever built sunk due to poor engineering.

[Julthor]

Is there anything that Archimedes wasn't involved in? He was a genius like no other!

[mikenapier]

This was an exceptional video. I had never heard of this ship before! And I consider myself a history buff. A tip of the hat to Simon & Team.

[roybixby]

Archemedes was so clever that he invented the archemedes screw 200 years before he was born.

[robsmith]

Lead sheet was used as a protection against ship worm, in much the same way as copper was used in later years

[min-magicks]

The ship reads like what someone who plays lottery would fantasize: all the types of wood... ohoh.. and marble. Gotta have marble.

[chrisvickers]

There are a few stories associated with this ship. One was that at a party a fairly drunk Archimedes proclaimed, "Give me a lever long enough and a place to put it and I can move the world." Heiron said, "Yeah, prove it. Launch my ship." Another story of this pair is that Heiron had commissioned a jeweler to make him a new gold crown. The jeweler was supposed to return the left over gold and be paid in much more common silver. Rumours reached Heiron that the jeweler has allowed the gold with a base metal (probably copper) and pocketed the change. Heiron asked Archimedes to prove his crown was pure gold or not. Some time latter Archimedes, who loved good food and good wine and it showed, got into a public bath and when he over flowed had a moment of insight about the principle of buoyancy. He then ran back home naked screaming, "Eureka" or I have it. The crown and an equal weight of water were submerged and when the crown displaced more water than the gold Archimedes proved the crown was not real gold. Less mentioned is that the jeweler was executed.

[sidguernsey]

To give a modern idea of the size of this wooden vessel it would be equivalent to HMS Victory in Pirates of the Carrabian or 2 Black Pearls.

[ignitionfrn]

1:50 - Chapter 1 - The original titanic
3:15 - Chapter 2 - Syracuse
4:55 - Chapter 3 - The 1st punic war
6:05 - Mid roll ads
7:15 - Chapter 4 - The ship
10:50 - Chapter 5 - Archimedes screw
11:35 - Chapter 6 - The greatest gift

[casinodelonge]

The Second Punic War started when the King of Carthage asked Caesar's wife to show him her punic heir.

[stevenwhoward]

not sure if you've covered this on your other channels, but a cool mega project you could cover is Operation Paperclip

[thejudgmentalcat]

"Cuz this shit is crazy"
I see blaze spreading out into his other channels!

[tommarquez]

Sweet! I absolutely love all these videos from all the different channels he has. Dude must drink a few pots worth of coffee just to keep up with all the different Channels he has!!

[littletimelord]

It is thought that out there in the land of antiquity was a warship so large that could never possibly fight. A ship dubbed “the super carrier of antiquity.” If your average Greek Trireme is a 3, and your Roman Quinquireme is a 5, the ship I speak of would be a 40. It’s called the Tessarakonteres. A video on it would be great.

[davidholmgren]

Giant ship! Ptolemy III, Egypt...wow, I just woke up from a nap and you sent me incredible information for my novel! Thanks...great video.

[JxxB]

That would be an amazing ship wreck to discover and explore.

[macbomb]

It's amazing they gave the ship size in meters but cargo in some obsolete system...