Creo haber visto la misma replica de este galeon cuando estaba amarrado en el puerto de Gijon hace bastante tiempo ya, y pude visitar el interior y hablar con el equipo, habian navegado antes desde Sud America .
I think that it only uses full sail at sea since many authorities require the vessel to use its engine when mooring or operating in confined spaces. Most people film ships near land so operating under full sail is rarely filmed. I think there is some footage here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O-RiN5uKk7U.html
What a lovely sight. I arranged and hosted client sailing trips on Tate & Lyle's wooden sailing ship through Tower Bridge and the Thames Barrier. I used to have an office opposite HMS Belfast long before all those sky blocking glass monstrosities were erected; and attended functions on it. The bridge was also raised when it went for repaint and repair. Well worth a visit. There is also a replica of the Golden Hinde along the Southbank, which always seemed much smaller than I would have imagined it to be.
Thanks for all the information. 👍 By sheer coincidence, I was up that way today on the Waverley. It sailed from Southend Pier, turned around beside HMS Belfast and then returned to Southend again.
Avanzado el día, intentó de nuevo el navío Pince remolcar al Santísima Trinidad; pero con tan poca fortuna como en la noche anterior. La situación no empeoraba, a pesar de que seguía el temporal con igual fuerza, pues se habían reparado muchas averías, y se creía que, una vez calmado el tiempo, podría salvarse el casco. Los ingleses tenían gran empeño en ello, porque querían llevar por trofeo a Gibraltar el más grande navío hasta entonces construido. Por esta razón trabajaban con tanto ahínco en las bombas noche y día, permitiéndonos descansar algún rato. Durante todo el día 22 la mar se revolvía con frenesí, llevando y trayendo el casco del navío cual si fuera endeble lancha de pescadores; y aquella montaña de madera probaba la fuerte trabazón de sus sólidas cuadernas, cuando no se rompía en mil pedazos al recibir el tremendo golpear de las olas. Había momentos en que, aplanándose el mar, parecía que el navío iba a hundirse para siempre; pero inflamándose la ola como al impulso de profundo torbellino, levantaba aquél su orgullosa proa, adornada con el león de Castilla, y entonces respirábamos con la esperanza de salvarnos. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENG As the day progressed, the british ship Pince attempted once again to tow the Santísima Trinidad; but with as little luck as the night before. The situation did not worsen, despite the storm continuing with equal force, as many damages had been repaired, and it was believed that, once the weather calmed, the hull could be saved. The English were very keen on this, as they wanted to take the largest ship ever built as a trophy to Gibraltar. For this reason, they worked tirelessly on the pumps night and day, allowing us to rest for a while. Throughout the day on the 22nd, the sea roiled with frenzy, tossing the hull of the ship as if it were a fragile fishing boat; and that wooden mountain tested the strength of its solid frames, barely holding together against the tremendous pounding of the waves. There were moments when, as the sea flattened, it seemed the ship would sink forever; but as the wave surged like the impulse of a deep whirlpool, it lifted its proud bow, adorned with the lion of Castile, and then we breathed with the hope of salvation. -Benito Pérez Galdós , Trafalgar, Episodios nacionales.
Ahí va , suave, deslizándose ……. Como si no hubiera navegado mares, embestido tormentas , desafiado limites , no plus ultra….. el Leon de Los mares, erguido desafiante , allá va…. Como si cualquier cosa….. 💚🌿🌟😘😍👏👏👏
I don't know but I was a little disappointed, not with the ship(boat?) but I think there should have been music/band appropriate to the time when it passed under.
I am no nautical expert but given that it was making a small bow wave and all its sails were furled it was not sailing at all but using an auxiliary engine. So the title should be motoring under Tower Bridge. I am prepared to be corrected.
Thanks for watching. At the moment the paddle steamer Waverley is offering trips on the Thames. If you have a look at the Waverley Excursions website, you will see that they often use the word "sailing" even though it is a paddle steamer and does not even have sails!
After it passes under Tower Bridge the first time, the next bridge up the river (which isn't far) is London Bridge. London Bridge is not able to lift and so any vessel requiring Tower Bridge to lift will not be able to pass under London Bridge. It will therefore have to turn around to pass under Tower Bridge again to return down river. Whenever Tower Bridge lifts, it will obviously cause congestion on the road as the traffic cannot pass over the bridge whilst it is lifted. Therefore, it is common for visiting vessels to pass through the bridge in the upriver direction and then back downriver about 30 minutes later. This 30 minutes allows the crew of the vessel to turn around and take any pictures / videos they require and also allows any road congestion to clear from the bridge. Of course, if they want to wait for longer than 30 minutes then that is also OK but they have to take into consideration the tide levels at the bridge. GALEON ANDALUCIA also had to enter St Katharine Docks marina (see the latest video) and it is only possible to enter the lock into the marina for a certain amount of time either side of high tide so this was also a consideration.
The original Spanish flag was Saint Andrew's cross, like the Scottish flag, but with white background and red cross. It was changed to the present day flag because it was easy to mistake it for the English flag, St. George's cross. So in order to prevent friendly fire, King Carlos III ordered to make a new flag, in yellow and red, which are the colours of Spain to this day.
Thanks for watching. I know what you mean but I believe that, technically speaking, it is only payable if the vessel moors at Tower Wharf. I am not sure if such a large vessel would be able to moor there or not. I know they had this ceremony earlier in the year when they had Royal Navy landing craft moor there. Obviously the landing craft have a smaller draught so they can moor there.
Not an expertise, but a bit small for a XVII centrury transatlantic ship, more a nao (like Colon's). The current spanish flag was indeed designed around 1770 as a distinctive badge (and so the width) for military ships out of the Aragón flag (yellow, red stripes). She looks gorgeous entering London, thanks for the welcome! 🇪🇦🇬🇧
Thanks for watching. Yes - if you look at the latest video when it enters the lock of the marina, you can see one of the replica cannons on the side of the ship.
Yeah, come up the Thames, but know that you are helpless once you get there. It’s a nice ceremony to indicate friendship between our nations but if they would only shut up about Gibraltar…
They are in London until 7th October and Galeon Andalucia is open to the public to visit during the day. It has been very popular with visitors and many people have said how friendly the crew are. I think it is great to have the opportunity to look around.
@@ThamesShips of course, I don’t want to detract from the intent of the project. I only hope there isn’t an ulterior motive. The Gibraltar question has by no means gone away.
Can you imagine everything that old father Thames has seen over the course of centuries? All the trading empires that have been and gone? Romans, Angles, Saxons, Vikings etc! Amazing.
Now we can get some idea of what the English navy was up against during the reign of QE1. These amazing ships built the 1st global empire, sailing to India, China and Japan as well as the Americas.
Imagine how different the world would have been today if the Spanish would have conquered England back to the catholic church. We would have a catholic england align with Rome. Imagine how gloroious that would be.
I think this is the galleon, or one like it, that came to Southend last year and we were able to go aboard and explore. It was a wonderful experience, she's beautiful.
Thanks for watching the video. Yes - it is the same one. It also visited Southend Pier again last month. There is a video on the channel of it arriving at Southend.
