Why the HMS Victory is Special

[thekboyz]

The HMS Victory didn’t sink, it’s in Portsmouth drydock

[Manwholikestrains]

Him: the hms victory may have sunk
Portsmouth drydock: am I a Fukin joke to you mate

[jacobpeacock]

You didn't do much research did you

[No-dyzk]

I’m sorry which victory are we talking about? At first I thought you were talking about Nelson’s victory. Then you show a cut out image of a ship type that existed way before victory.

[sandordula]

I have been onboard. One of my most precious memory ever. She is not sunken.

[aliasunknown]

That's inaccurate regarding her speed. If Victory managed to achieve 12knots, she'd be unable to set all her sails or risk breaking and tearing the smaller ones. More sail does not necessarily mean more speed. The lighter the wind, the more sails required to harness the wind. Strong wind only requires the main sails to harness the power.

Victory never sunk either.

[Noreik]

Theres been a lot of confusion over this video unfortunately due to the uploader not specifilying which hms victory was the subject of this video, due to this im not even sure if the creator knows which he is discussing.

Hms victory in portsmouth was launched 1765 and saw much service through her career all the way up to around 1814 give or take.

She did not sink, and yes she is genuin, the one refered to that dunk was the victory that was before her, she was made of untreated timber and due to vanity of the designer wanting to show off his prowess was given a very high centre of mass due to her having a 4 floor high stern gallery, she was a terrible sailor and very unstable and this lead to her being toppled and sunk in a storm.

[XavierAway]

you could have specified which HMS Victory you are talking about... there are 6 of them 🤦

[WojciechWachniewski-stzm]

She is by no means a special one. She had been well designed, well built, well equipped, well manned and well commanded. Does anybody need more? An excellent, and lucky ship. May she remain so for centuries to come. God speed and good luck 'Victory'! ♍🇵🇱🇬🇧👍

[rexquite]

Bruh it didn't sink. And was one of the best ships made of it's time

[anonymous-ak]

the Victory from 1765 never sunk, it was reserved and she became museum at Portsmouth, there is, actually, another shio with the name Victory that is sunk and that victory was found in 2008 in English Channel, so this video is 50/50 right

[andrewrostant]

I’m pretty sure HMS victory is still floating

[bestbehave]

Well this is unclear. Nelson's Victory didn't sink, but her predecessor did in 1744. Nelson's flagship was floated out at Chatham in 1765

[jackbailey]

I think everyone is confused about the “she probably sank” part. There are many examples throughout history of ships being sunk and refloated. There were the ships at Pearl Harbor that sunk and were refloated. The narrator suggest that at some point she might have sunk in shallow water and was refloated at some point.

I don’t know if that did happen or if the narrator is correct all I know is that it can happen.

[lukemitchell_]

Just find it crazy that they could build whole ships in a few years

[martyable]

It was the French and the Spanish fleets that sunk....HMS Victory is on display in Portsmouth Naval dockyard and with HMS Warrior.

[wilfredruffian]

I'm a plumber, but this clip has inspired me to make a video on quantum physics.

[IJN_Kongo]

My man was trying to figure out how the fak did victiry fight at trafalgar if it was sunken: what

[themadmechanic]

i think they have mixed up with the Mary Rose

[ErectkyleDysfunction]

HMS Victory NEVER used all her sails for speed. Sailing Large (which is what the practice is called) was never meant for maintaining speed. In fact if it got too windy the crew would have to remove some of them from getting torn up.