VIDEO CORRECTIONS: Feel free to add your knowledge to this comment thread. Remember, teaching others your precious knowledge is a lovely thing and is best done with patience, and not excess sharpness. Some viewers have already pointed out that: - "battleship" is a modern term not applicable to old ships like this. - The boat is a "Pinnace", not pinnacle - Proper old English terms like fo'c'sle (forecastle), which we are aware of but which I omitted in the final script. - The Grand Magazine had light rooms nearby as well, like the hanging magazines. That is, they had separate rooms with lanterns behind glass for protection. - Apparently the yard isn't in the correct spot when hoisted, but I'll be damned if I could find info on just how that should have been situated when I was animating it! - The audio isn't the greatest. I know. I was being lazy, and I'll do better next time and give myself the proper time to get it right. I just dislike that part of the project. I've got a proper setup though, it's not my gear. Classic.

Hey man, I didn't know until this video how "boatswain" was pronounced, and that was pretty damn cool to learn

Beatiful. Just like recent Epic History video on Victoria

from user "edl617": Not a battleship. It’s a Ship of the Line. The Battleline which Is made of of ships of the line. The British Royal Navy rated ships of the line. 6th rate, 5th rate, 4th rate, 3rd Rate, 2nd Rate, and 1st Rate like the HMS Victoria. British Frigates had between 28 to 40 guns, then ships of the line 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 guns

from "jameshigh6481": Ships don't have floors. They have decks.

I'm a much older man and remember when color TV first came out. Yes, I'm that old. Anyway, it's a real pleasure to see an intelligent and gifted young person turn his talents to interesting subjects as you have done. I especially liked your videos on the WW2 aircraft but the others are great too. Fascinating. I grew up playing with those airplane models and you've done a fine job of explaining everything about them. I had a model of HMS Victory ages and ages ago. Fascinating. It's a shame to lose that tech from bygone days but time moves on. Well, keep on doing your best and follow your bliss and you can't go wrong.

It's incredible how everything seems so rudimentary, yet so well-thought at the same time.

rudimentary to us maybe, yet to elk, it is beyond fathom

When I was a kid, I built a plastic model of the Mayflower, one of the ships that brought the Pilgrims to America. You don't know just how many ropes and lines there are until you build a ship, whether it's an accurate model or a real ship. My dad never needed to help with any of my modelling because he and my mother made sure that each of us kids learned early how to read and follow an assembly guide. Dad did help me when it came time to mix paint colors for small one-off batches so that I didn't have to buy a whole bottle of paint for each of the very minor colors in any given model, only to use just a few drops for a part that was supposed to look like oak, or another part that was supposed to look like an off-white railing or something. LOL, all on my paperboy income, hehe! Oak is a tan color, while Mahogany is a darker brown. Once you know how to make the off-colors from your bottles of common colors, that gives you the real power of creativity. Today there's probably an app for that, right?

That technology was the culmination of centuries of development. We think of it as primitive because it's old but it required vast knowledge and skill to build, maintain, and operate.

There have always been incredibly clever humans to design this stuff, but technology advances slowly.

It took centuries of trial and error...

Not saying that modern warships aren't plenty complicated in their own right, but this video manages to demonstrate the incredible complexity and ingenuity of sailing ships.

When it comes to warships, a phrase comes in mind, the more things change, the more they stay the same, sure in modern warships we have dedicated crew quarters, kitchens and such but a bilge pump and a water condenser and such as well as ammo storage still stays the same. Plus a random tidbit, despite the invention of brass cartridges when steel hull ships are being built, the cannon shells were dropped and instead are loaded via a block or sack of gunpowder, or another way. However the same aspect that still stays the same, despite materials and tech that changed, the idea and lay outs are still beyond similar.

As someone who has done 3D computer modeling work for many years, I must say this is astounding work. It epitomizes the powerful teaching potential of computer animation, and fulfills the dreams of people using the technology in the early years. The entire production is seamless and powerful. Makes the delivery of highly detailed and complex information seem easy and effortless, when it takes amazing skill to pull it off. Congratulations and Cheers

This is nothing - just wait until you find out what AI can do. We're about 5 years away from a person being able to write a conceptual paragraph, and the result being 10x more detailed than this. Technically, you can do it now - but people are still working out the kinks.

@Dan Gee Hi thanks for your reply. I've been using text to image ai obsessively for about 6 months and can see the awesome power it promises, and I realize text to video can't be too far behind. Makes the skill and labor of work like this, like all of the skilled labor and taste involved in making great work, seem, sadly, tragically, like a thing of the past. Probably a year away. Cheers

Look at these Russian trollers

@Dan Gee We are nowhere near AI having the capability to reproduce Animagraff level quality, and when AI does reach that level, things will look different for all of us so I'll live out that reality when it comes. No worries. AI has proved useful to me right now, but in a serving capacity, and only if I know a lot about the subject so I can spot AI's many hallucinations, aka "making s**t up". It can be useful for writing code to improve my Blender 3D toolset, and yet, it often makes up commands that don't exist, or writes code that doesn't work, because at this point I often find myself deep into Blender's internals where synthesizing all of Stackoverflow (what AI has done, essentially) isn't going to help me since no one's talking about my specific use case.

@Animagraffs nobody can emulate you, my brother ;)

800+ crew... I'm a former submariner and I still can't even imagine living for months on end under such crowded conditions. Great video, by the way.

Yeah that's crazy, huh? And there are only about 6 "seats of ease", which seriously means, if you do the math and exclude the officers...it's like 10 minutes per man, per toilet seat in any given 24 hour period. So, you probably had to wait in line to take a shit, and you had 10 minutes on average, to get it done. Now that's pressure.

Having heard about the weight of the cannons, having seen the wheels of the cannons, you understand how dangerous a "loose cannon" can be in a storm.

Huh, I never made the connection between that saying and ship cannons, but it makes a lot of sense.

Yeah you know, you'd almost be better off in a bad storm, if that cannon were to simply fall overboard. You'd lose a cannon, yes, but you'd save the crew and probably lots of damage!

Wow, this 18th century warship is a true masterpiece of engineering and design. It's amazing to see how sailors from the past managed to build and operate such a complex vessel with only their hands and basic tools. This ship truly embodies the spirit of exploration, adventure, and bravery that defined the age of sail. I can only imagine what it would have been like to sail on this ship and engage in epic battles on the high seas. Truly a piece of history that deserves to be preserved and celebrated!

"epic battles" were more like incoherent massacres of the poor youth of their respective country. Let's not romantisize naval war too much, living several months or years at a time on these ships was hell, let alone fighting in it, where it became an over-engineered casket.

@Joshua Rosemann I Massacres only happened on boardings. Not sure about 18th century, but at leat until the 16th on the warships that engaged in "massacres" there were professional soldiers, who definately weren't innocent. I think the guy was just admiring the sheer brilliance of the 18th century warships and how despite lack of technology, they were still prepared for basically any practical scenario at the time.

@Electric Speedkiller i as much as him am amazed by the advancement in naval transport technology and i think that ship is amazing. I would love to visit a real ship of this type one day let alone go on a voyage on one. Not so far of where i live there's a reconstruction of a roman ship wchich design is more than 2000 years old. It is fascinating that it basically used the exact same materials and mechanical systems (i.e the ropes, sails, shape and structure of the ship), minus the canons of course. The only real change is the complexity and sheer size and mass of the object (altough roman ships of similar grandeur existed). Anyway you're partly right, i'm just skeptical when i see someone idolizing something that underneath the impressive first glance, is just a giant war machine designed to destroy and take as many lives as possible and on which countless people drowned, died of sickness, of famine, were torn apart in explosions or died trying to fight for better conditions. Life on these ships was really hard. No privacy, tiny spaces with little to no light cramed with hundreds of unknown man, the hygiene was terrible, the weather unpredictible, the job itself often dangerous and the pay mostly miserable (depending on the position and time). Not to say all these men were innocent, but all were generally really young, with little to no other choices, on which the national and private marines relied on as disposable. If we ignore that we don't do justice to these men and we learn nothing from history.

If you’re into reading, there’s three great novel series set during this time in the Royal Navy. Hornblower, by C.S. Forester, there’s also a series of TV movies based off some of the novels, and a 50s classic Hollywood film “Captain Horatio Hornblower” starring Gregory Peck, based off some of the later novels (Peck can’t do a British accent to save his life by the way). The Aubrey-Maturin series, by Patrick O’Brian, which provided the base material for the 2003 Oscar-winning masterpiece of a film “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World”. And lastly, the “Lord Ramage” series of novels.

I can understand and agree with your admiration from an engineering perspective. But that other guy had a point when he called out the glorification of ship to ship combat. Combat during the age of sail was gruesome, even at cannon range. Consider that grapeshot (shotgun) was common and chain shot, while meant for masts, would often take any unfortunate sailors in front of their target with them. Usually to messy results.

It is amazing how advanced these ships really were even hundreds of years ago.

YES

And it is amazing, how advanced and detailed this perfect 3D animation is! 👌🏻

Very expensive to build and operate also. Would love to have seen it in action, what a show. Wouldn't want to stay on one but, to be on board to see, hear and smell the fury of those guns, would be incredible.

They were the most advanced equipment of their time

These ships were remarkably technological for the era. The design and planning of ship layouts by Naval Architects and Engineers is incredibly precise and practical. It must have required great talent and imagination to conceive of these warships.

"required great talent and imagination"....... and also nearly a millennium of practical experience (try and error)

Now imagine designing, building, and operating these with crews that are almost entirely illiterate, and you begin to see the miracle that these ships became for the world.

I was on HMS Victory over the weekend and it's super cool to see everything here in so much detail to add context to what we experienced. Thanks a bunch for doing this!

In 1966 using my paper route earnings, I purchased and assembled a Revell©️ plastic model of this amazingly engineered vessel. This model was one of two equally treasured ones of my childhood—the second being the Boeing B17 bomber hanging from the ceiling light of my bedroom then. Now as much as I treasured my humble little plastic “homage” , I never really studied the complex functions of the Victory, but merely focused on the more readily available history of it. So, this is such a treat, so informative, visually rich and downright creative. You have edified me “marvelous much!” I thank you. (P.S. Perhaps you will entertain creating a similar video about the B17, yes?) Thanks again.

No one asked.

Very good, I had the same models (and many more…) but I was rubbish at painting them. Really cool of this video to remind me of all those funny little parts names. I’ve been on the actual ‘Victory’ a few times and there isn’t much headroom on that lower gun deck. A dark and scary place for the men who ‘worked’ there.

The labor and skill to build such a massive warship during that time is simply incredible! Great video

Your artwork is so fantastic and impressive! Have watched many and LOVE them all! I learn much, enjoy the way you put together the models, the animation, and the narration. It is obvious to me the kind of research that goes into them before you even begin building them out. Thank you for creating and sharing these with the world. It is much appreciated, and inspiring. :)

I’m blown away, what an absolute masterpice of video. As someone whos always been obsessed with historic ships this is incredible. Please do more!! Greetings from Sweden!

Yes. Next time he should do the vasa ship (1628). Eller hur?

Outstanding effort. I thouroughly enjoyed that, and learned alot.

could not agree more.

Couldn't agree more.

Agreed!!!

Hard to believe, that many centuries ago people invented such sophisticated boats and equipment. Moreover, graph quality and detalisation astonishing me! Thank you for this great work!

I can’t even imagine how long this took to create! Both the ship itself and the model of the ship. I dk how I found your channel, but i’m glad i did!

This is an amazing visualization of this highly complex vehicle! It will help me visualize what is going on when I read Patrick O'Brian novels. I highly recommend reading all 20 of them! Historically accurate fiction, on which the movie Master and Commander was based. All of this terminology contained in this video is constantly being referred to in the novels. Thank you so much! This ship must have been incredibly expensive to produce and maintain.

The beauty and majesty of not only the ships but the engineering, planning and finance of such a vessel is nothing less than impressive. WOW! I can’t even imagine being on these ships and at sea for 3 to 6 months. The battles must have been intimidating and terrifying at the same time.

That was very cool! Thanks for putting this together! So much work went into those ships, that’s insane!

The amount of planning, engineering, and construction for a ship built almost 260 years ago is beyond impressive. This was a thoroughly entertaining video. Thank you for creating it.

Agreed. When I visited the ship (it is at the Naval Dockyard in Portsmouth, England) it was unbelievable to me that such a huge and complex vessel could be made out of wood.

@McCleod I think a planned vacation from the states, she would be a great destination to visit.

Am I right in thinking the actually grew the oak trees years in advance in the shape of the ship or have I made that up?

as if it's baffling for you to think that people 260 years ago could think, plan and engineer and were not ooga booga cavemen

@Marcus Aurelius Have you been to Yorkshire?🤔

For anyone interested in the royal navy of this time period and who like historical fiction, I very highly recommend the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian.

And the Hornblower series by C. S. Forester! Need to reread all of these books with this video in mind! You start understanding many terms while you read, but this clarifies things further.

That video was super interesting and very informative. Thank you, for taking the time to animate, edit, and narrate us through it!

This is truly awesome work at every level. For anyone super interested in this era of naval warfare, author Patrick O'Brian (of the original Master & Commander) is a literary reference. While fictional, his books are written 100pc in the vernacular of the era and forensically detailed in the day to day crew activities. Imagine back in their day, these ships were as modern, full of technology and innovations, as today's nuclear aircraft carriers.

What an amazing piece of work you created here. I've visited quite a number of great sailing ships, always trying to visualize what went where, connected to what, and functioned how. So now after watching this three times, with breaks to let the brain re-align, at last I will have a clear idea of what's going on next time I tour one of these beauties. Thank you very much indeed for such a brilliant presentation!!!

THAT was well done! Thank you so much for the work you put into this. Very clear, very comprehensive, very educational. You should be proud of your work. You are very good at what you do.

This ship was the pinnacle of high technology for it's time. Every single part of this ship seems to be well thought out and practical.

In many ways... indeed. However a quick history review shows a few boo-boos. On launching the ship listed to starboard significantly. and the lowest gunports were well below the shipwright/architects calculations- only ~4+ feet above the waterline! So gunports had to stay shut in rough weather.

Meh, bulkheads, who needs em

yeah, it like the Chinese repeating crossbow back in Han dynasty, the pinnacle of bow

Only up to recent this always used to be the case, and quality second to none

No surprise that nation which could build the best ships was the strongest on earht at that time.

Just amazing. I've been reading the Master and Commander series and this video makes the story so much more entertaining knowing what they refer to. Thanks!

Visited Portsmouth and the Historic dockyard in April. Victory is undergoing a deep restoration / preservation with a special exhibit where you can see the outside during it's repair. The size of the timbers is mind blowing. Took us 4 days to see all the different museums/ships at the Dockyard. Victory, Warrior, Mary Rose, Alliance, RN museum, weapons museum, boat house, dock tour by water. Was fantastic and highly recommended.

Yes, the naval dockyards and HMS Victory (even in refurb) is a must visit for everyone. I visited in 1974, when I was on a Royal Navy Seamanship for Youth Course. I’ll never forget the surgeon’s deck which was painted red…so sailors couldn’t see the blood. When you see the rudimentary instruments used in those days you can understand why carpentry was such a big thing!

What a tremendous amount of work/effort goes into your vids. Just excellent, thank you.

Wow, this is excellent. Thank you so much for putting this together. I feel like designing, editing and putting the final touches on this video alone is almost as hard as it was to build that whole ship!

A most interesting and useful piece of animation, especially to researchers. It must have taken a lot of time and effort to produce - well done ...

The amount of engineering and crew know how behind this ship is mind blowing. Your animation is beyond incredible and your knowledge and presentation was out of the park. Thank you. I also loved the humor about the poop deck, that was hilarious. This is truly an amazing and informative video.

I keep thinking that computers are complicated, and that we've reached a point where things are very complicated, but the engineering of such a ship is also very complex and I don't know which is more impressive!!! It opens my eyes to see we have a history of really complex devices spanning centuries, if not millennia. :)

@Christian A Same European people made both.

It just helps show that our ancestors were no less resourceful or intelligent than us. They were just born in a time where we knew less and had less.

Now we know how deforestation began...humans are discussing...but indeed is a great engineering

Well not really all the engineering was developed over time, specialized technologies used from other areas are joined together. The real feat is managing the sailors and everyone happy thus a strong discipline was very stringent, whipping….getting the ship to sail is a big feat but done with training over and over again…..now a lost technology

Thank you Animagraffs for this outstanding presentation of a complex topic. The "3-D" effects and breakdown of each deck by section along with the use/translation of vintage sailing terminology is very educational and easy to follow. Foreign language and native speakers do appreciate your selection of "low volume" background soundtrack which is not distracting to the description of your illustrations. Thank you again for such a great production, Ciao, L (Retired Naval Officer)

I’ve loved this stuff my whole life ! I actually served on a square rigger when I was a kid. Thankyou so much for this wonderful 3d experience and the careful explanations !

This is an excellent breakdown of a ship of the line. You should be very proud of your modelling, it's superb.

It is ABSOLUTELY ASTOUNDING the level of quality that this video is. And it is also crazy how well thought out and incredibly much guns these ships carried

That people back then could conceive of and execute such a vessel is amazing! Thanks for all your work on this!

We actually tend to forget that those ships were engineering marvels. It is crazy to see the amount of work that went into that, and the end result was just astounding. So cool to actually see a ship layer by layer and understand the science behind it.

Absolutely, highly recommend checking out the salvaged warship Vasa at the museum w/ the same name n Stockholm if you ever have the chance. A 17th century Swedish empire warship. Really impressive to be able to see one IRL and how gigantic it was.. A real beauty & behemot. Like you said, so much effort and hard work went into these projects..

@Sveahborn lmao i agree but Vasa sailed like 1300 meters and sank 💀

​@Péter Popovics Haha yeah, makes it even better. A good story of legend.. Vasa was just one of several vessels that were built in similar size to Vasa but the others never got the intricate design choices meant to be flashy and impressive flag ship style. Amount of cannons differed. Anyway, great museum! love that kind of stuff!

It really is an astounding engineering work of art.

thats what happens when aliens help people out+

This clip was absolutely excellent! I've been reading nautical fiction (Hornblower, Aubrey, Kydd, Ramage and a little Bolitho) for the last 2-3 years now and while most of them describe the functionings of a man of war quite well there have always been details that have escaped me. This clip introduces all the important aspects to begin to understand a square rigged ship and has managed to enlighten me on some aspects that have always escaped me. The visual renderings are excellent and you've always highlighted what is relevant. I have never seen a better explanatory video on a complex subject such as this clip. Well done!

You guys already have so much well deserved praise for your efforts. I just want to say thank you for educating me. I appreciate how the approach with its simplicity to a complex topic.

The level of ingenuity and genius that went into the engineering of these ships is incredible. I never knew a fraction of this information. Thanks for sharing this!

Brilliant, well explained and well animated. I had no idea how complex an old sail boat like this was. Absolute genius for its day.

That was an amazing display of sailing tech! VERY well done!

Not sure who to admire more - the shipbuilders from four centuries ago or the maker of this video. Excellent work both of you!

Word.

Hear! Hear! 👏👏

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ wow. I saw 1:11 on my phone earlier and thought that had to be a scripture. Thanks

I admire sailors living there for months

I’m so impressed with this video…. Just amazing. I was always fascinated with these ships growing up, the fascination of the pirates and their life of traveling in the ships and everything…… I never understood how complex those ships were. I really had no idea of the weight they was carrying on average. Such a great video.

Exceptionally informative, with some incredible details. I love the explanation of the pumps, and the inclusion of the condenser (I always wondered if there were other ways to obtain fresh water onboard), and particularly the details of the interior walls that can be lifted out of the way to clear space on the lower decks. Really well-done work, and I feel like you could easily extend this for another 30 minutes just on operations and POV shots

This is amazing! Thank you and all the creators for their work

The amout of efforts to create this video is also enormous. Thanks for sharing. Keep up with the good work!

Absolutely amazing! I‘m a 3D Artist myself, love sailing and history of the age of sail and I also played with the thought of starting a project like this. Just seeing your work and how complex everything is… I will never have time to do it and I marvel at what you achieved.

the density of sailors and equipment packed into that surprisingly complicated ship, and the engineering to do all of that with wood and such, is astounding. I learned so much from this!

I'm so confused. Dealing with stress on metal structures is hard enough. With wood?? and friction? water exposure? this is just mind-blowing

​@Youtube Anything i mean with such a vast storage dedicated to just wood, it kinda makes sense

A wooden ship was flexible and "lived "in its element. The right kinds of wood and basic lubricants and sealants (i.e. tallow and tar) resisted water and weather exposure.

@Youtube Anything We still use wood in many watermanagement applications today. Like in groynes to keep rivers from miandering in corners and near sluice gates or even just to provide support to other wooden structures in case of collision when docking near them minimalising damaga to ships, just to name a few. The thing with proper wood you have to deal with mostly has to do with oxidation. The layer that might be both in and out of the water at certain times. This can be managed by regulating the water level and treating and of course properly maintaining those structures. Here in the Netherlands, river sluice gates are made of out wood some of the time to this day. I've personally even visited a company that made one for a sluice in Zaandam once some years ago. I have pictures somewhere, but they were something like 10 meters or 30 feet in height. It's still something reliable as a material, similar to steel depending on the application. Just like wood, steel needs to be treated and maintened properly. It's not a one for all purposes wonder-material. On top of that, determining the strength on the characteristics of some wooden structure is not that different from the difficulty the strength of pouring, casting, soldering, welding etc would be. It takes knowledge and tools either way. Hope this gave you some insight. If you really want to dive deep, look up some stuff about material mechanics. :)

@LSR that's some dense infos! thanks! can you tell me how they manage to prolong the wood at the point where they hook the beefy ropes of anchors? They literally pull it while sliding rope into wood. That's so much pressure..

Absolutely fascinating! I have never considered all the requirements that have gone into a ship like this. Absolutely amazing 👏 Bravo 👏 great video, I learnt a great deal!

This was very informative. I've always been completely ignorant of how the rigging worked. Your simple breakdown of the workings of just the one sail was exactly what I needed.

What amazing work in creating this 3D animation! I was always wondering how all these small things were organized and worked together in such a massive ship.

Great video. There had to be a ton of effort to make all the animations. I had no idea how complex the old sailing ships were. It would probably be a monumental effort to try to make one of these ships today.

What an incredible piece of work you’ve produced. I have to say I was gobsmacked all the way through. Excellent work. Well done. Keep it up

It’s honestly amazing how creative humans have been able to get with simple kinetic energy and only the simple force of our muscles and wind and water. The sheer ingenuity and design history in every plank of this ship is seriously impressive.

I agree

And they had the guts to travel far.

I agree, with only the force of Mother natures wind to move something so incredibly heavy, just imagine the sounds that ship would make sailing at night while sleeping.

@Fastbikkel Smart, redundant compasses, without the knowledge of using the stars to navigate, having only one malfunctioning compass would be very perilous and could have you sailing into unfriendly territory, with deadly consequences.

Thank you for an amazing animation and explanation. Just wonderful work. A pleasure to watch and learn from!

Great content, thanks for the hard work put in by the people who made this.

Very impressive, both your animation and the genius of the designers of these ships. The officers and sailors must have worked like a finely tuned machine. I can't imagine what it must have been like to be onboard for months at a time.

incredible, can you imagine seeing this thing live, the 3D imaging goes a long way, masterful engineering

Thank you very much for a well thought through and informative video. I can’t even imagine how much work went into this.

I think if the designers and builders of The Victory could see this video they would appreciate it more than words can even describe. Great work!

I don't think they would give a fuck tbh xD

@Mvb A ship designer would not be interested in a video about ship design... sounds likely.

My dad worked on it👍👍👍

@Mvb epic troll bro

Yea they wouldn't, they don't even know what a video is. Once explained they would propably appreciate it, and think it's nice how someone spend time on working out one of their designs so far in the future, but "appreciate it more than words can even describe"? Hell no. This video wasn't their life purpose. They just did their job and designed a ship. They probably designed a ton of projects in their lifetime. They would care a lot more about suddenly being 200+ years in the future and finding out how the world developed, how history went down, how their distant family is doing and what new technologies are around.

WOW!! I had no idea just how complex the whole operation for a ship of the line was. Excellent presentation by the way.

I've seen the real thing many times, but your animation is by far the best explanation I've ever seen. It is outstanding. You need to be very proud of it.

Thank you!! That's hardly enough to express my gratitude. You've answered a dozen or more of my questions, and taught me things that I knew nothing about. The graphics we wonderful in terms of explaining the design of the ship in visual terms. Pictures worth a thousand words, indeed! I'd say this was just about magical.

These ships seem even more impressive and complicated than the ones we have now.

These videos are freaking awesome. I was just in Puerto Vallarta and I saw an enormous cruise ship. I thought how fantastic it would be to see one of your videos about how it works.

This channel is gonna be an absolute monster one day soon. Incredible work. Keep it up. 👊

It's inspiring to see you think so :) My brother and I aren't really into the "growth at all costs" model of modern business, so I imagine the channel will grow slow and steady. But I'm happy to have us all along for the ride! :D

@Animagraffs I think slow and steady is good as I think it is stressful to try and work to the algorithm

With this astounding level of quality you are bound for greatness.

Wow I can’t imagine how much work went in to creating that animation. Thanks for sharing!

Nothing to say but BRAVO

Leaving aside how great that model is and how much time you must have spent researching : damn, this is relaxing to watch!

BZ, great work, I've struggled with the naval architecture of the sailing Navy this was very enlightening. Well done Sir

Thank you for beautiful graphics and concise explanation. You’ve given me a new appreciation the skill, engineering and society on a battleship.

Sir, thank you very much for posting this extremely well done video. While I would say I personally have an above average knowledge on ships in the Age of Sail, your video still taught me things I did not know. Well done and keep up the great work.

Thanks for making this video! I remember trying to look these things up in the past and really not finding much, especially regarding the bilge pumps. Much appreciated!

Extraordinary. Congratulations on this phenomenal work. I can't imagine the number of hours you devoted to allow us to admire this magnificent ship. Admiral Nelson would be proud of you. I built a wooden model of this warship in my youth, but I had never known her "insides" until tonight. Thank you and all my respect for your fabulous work.

Amazing, explained everything I had questions about.

Couldn't have said it better myself

You sir, did a fantastic job with this video. It doesn’t even deserve to be on YouTube. It should be in a museum where you get paid royalties for every play. Furthermore, the complexity of these ships is astounding. To tour one is a dream of mine but I don’t know if there are any that are still around to see. This video, in a way, made the dream real. For that I thank you to the creator.

Well done! The basic load-out is very well done; what the audience needs to keep in mind is that the detailed equipment would be vastly more complex (and beyond the scope of this kind of video). Great job!

Absolutely amazing job done here, Thanks for your hard work.

Very interesting, and well presented! I can't imagine the amount of work that must have been put into making that model. I recently visited the Vasa museum here in Stockholm, where one of the world's few fully conserved 17th century war ships is on display. I can see that those ships have a lot of similarities and traditions in common, but this one has a lot of additional QoL improvements and technological advances. Still, very similar even if there's a hundred years between them.

I have been on the recreation of the mayflower, and it is honestly amazing how much smaller it is than you would typically picture in your mind. This ship is much larger, but I do wonder if it would still feel smaller than I envisioned as well.

You did an incredible job with this video, especially if ships aren't your specialty. As a sailor, I'm pleasantly surprised by how incredibly popular this video is! 1.6 MILLION views in FIVE days!? Bravo. 👏🏻

Yeah, on this channel views skyrocket once released

Sailor?

@Luke B someone who sails?

It’s also great for falling asleep

It'd be cool to see something like this done for modern warships. I know it'd be a lot more work but seeing the systems and compartments of something like a modern destroyer or carrier laid out in this kind of way would be really interesting.

Marvelous!!! Congratulations on such a detailed and well made 3d model. I respect the massive investment this consruction required, and then the camera, structural and prop animation. Man, this is just amazing. Thanks for all your massive hard work.

The script and narration, also super good! I'd love to see a "making of" video. Really blown away.

Wow - great work. I have visited the Victory many times over the years and always walked away in awe of the technology of that era.

This is a very informative video, and very well done! Thank you for making this available!

Very cool! I would love to see more feats of historical technology from this channel! There’s lots of videos covering modern technology like some of the other videos on this channel, but very few covering complicated historical creations. Keep it up 👍🏼

This was absolutely amazingly done. Do not let disparaging criticisms dampen your gift please. This is the absolute pinnacle of "shipology" documentaries. Thank you

"Disparaging criticisms?" Where?

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So amazingly cool. Thank you so much for making this and putting it out there for all of us to see!

I always thought there must be more to ships from this era that I dont know. But I didn't realise just how well thought out they were and just how much went into them. So practical and really quite clever. It sounds like every single inch of that ship had a purpose. Just awesome engineering, especially for the time. Awesome vid too.

I've been on board on HMS "Victory" twice. Amazing ship and still in service to my knowlege. Your great presentation made me to understand this masterpiece of ship buildind back then. Thank you.🤝

Just incredible!!! I hope this is not the last sailing ship model you make.

Found your channel through this video, and I'm pretty hyped at the fact you have so many more released. The quality of your work is astounding among so much online mediocrity.

I sailed on the Regina Maris from Tahiti to Hawaii to Mexico in 1973. Then I worked on the Balclutha in San Francisco Bay. This is by far the most complete, most well-done presentation on the subject that I have ever seen. I can't imagine the time and effort that went into this video. Thank you !!!

steve jette I was introduced to the Regina Maris by the novel Tuning the Rig by Harvey Oxenhorn. I stumbled across her when by chance in the late 90s I was in Greenport NY and walked by her. I had finished reading the book just weeks prior and was stunned to just happen by her like that. She was closed for repairs, so I left a donation and moved on. I was dissapointed to read of her being scrapped. Congratulations on being so blessed to have sailed aboard her.

Just trivia but my ex wife's grandfather was the last captain of the Balcutha. He sailed it to its current berth in SF.

@Pat Nitzel Do you know the year ?

This legit blew me away. Before watching this I was completely clueless as to the massive scale these things were and even more clueless on the level of genius engineering that went into these things. And the level of detail you included and along with the narration that made the info very approachable and easy to understand. Best educational content on this subject that I have ever seen.

Very nicely done informative video, amazing to know that even centuries ago, how things were well thought and planned.

Such a remarkable video! I have no boat experience, but I love engineering. I watched this 3 times! Brilliant work! I'm happy to subscribe and I look forward to seeing more of your videos.

👏👏👏 Absolutely fascinating! It's amazing to see how much thought and effort went into designing and operating these incredible ships. The level of teamwork required to handle all those sails and ropes is mind-boggling. It's a testament to human ingenuity and innovation.

Astonishing job, Jake. Mind blowing undertaking, and so well done. Thank you!

This is amazing. They should show this in museums to bring the experience to life

I concur. I've actually been on the HMS Victory (on which this video is based) and while impressed, I'd have been even more so with such a demonstration as shown in this vid.

It's a bit big to show this IN a museum. 😄 A bit too big.

Why are you doing this to me?

@Davo Östergötland I never meant to cause you trouble and I, I never meant to do you wrong and I, well if I ever caused you trouble. Oh no, I never meant to do you harm.

Huge thanks for you!! 👏Amazing work! 👏 I always wanted to know the details of these grand ships. 😃 I was astounded during the whole video. 😲

Big sail ships have amazed me since childhood, pirate adeventures and all... it seemed something complex but i had never really a clue about how much, nor any idea of how it works. Now I'm way more amazed even, thank you very much!!