The Tragic Story Of The Victorian RMS Tayleur | How The Victorians Built Britain | Absolute History

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The Victorians built the most technologically advanced ships in the world, helping to dominate the high seas in peace, war, leisure and trade. They even created the first submarine.
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16 авг 2021

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@dagmarsigridmanondenijs-bl7156 2 года назад

Britannia Rules The Waves is another fantastic documentary from Absolute History. Thank you for inspiring me to watch and learn.

@daniellebrothers3688 2 года назад

Absolutely fascinating! And an incredible story of how the ordinary people--especially British women, contributed to the construction of that cutting-edge warship

@OstblockLatina 2 года назад

For half the wage of their men and with no labor laws, no public education nor healthcare, no maternity leave or social welfare in case they didn't want to be exploited in that field of labor and left only with perspective of their own and their multiple children's (no right to contraception nor abortion) starvation.

@OstblockLatina 2 года назад

For half the wage of their men and with no labor laws, no public education nor healthcare, no maternity leave or social welfare in case they didn't want to be exploited in that field of labor.

@iwonaszmid1715 2 года назад

Greetings from Poland.🙋👍 Dziękuję za jakże ciekawe filmy.

@rainingfallout3043 2 года назад

watched the whole thing really enjoyed it

@corallewis3788 2 года назад

This was so interesting.. thank you..

@flyingace1234 2 года назад

37:10 "A design for a boat that could travel underwater was first floated..." I see what you did there

@Myriako 2 года назад

Thank you for this video ! 😊💐

@valor101arise 2 года назад

LOVE THIS SERIES

@kzeich 2 года назад

Thank you. Wonderful

@baileybrunson42 2 года назад

I can't help but notice the similarities (approximate size and shape, duel propulsion, collapsible funnel, probably the retractable screw too for cleaning up the hull to sail faster) between HMS Warrior and the CSS Alabama which was also British built (in Birkenhead, England I think). I wish Alabama was here to enjoy as well.

@williamcarter1993 2 года назад

what? CSS Alabama was wooden and had 8 guns. Warrior was iron over wood and had 40.

@CoffeeLover-mz7bk 2 года назад

The Titanic sank after Queen Victoria's reign and actually after Edward VII's reign. The Titanic sank in George V's reign.

@TheCelticSelkie. 2 года назад

I was disappointed because I felt like that title was clickbait, anyway.

@lovelyjanuary 2 года назад

The title says the “Tayleur” not the Titanic.

@MegCazalet 2 года назад

I’m not sure what specifically you’re correcting, is it the “Victorian Titanic” on the thumbnail? But also in general terms I wanted to note that we extend the “Edwardian period” to 1914, and the First World War, because that’s when the Edwardian zeitgeist actually came to an end. The times don’t always line up with the exact reigns. Or with the decades, as we try to divide up different social eras now, because things change so much faster and faster.

@jjm0537 2 года назад

Please post more history from Asia. 🙏

@teentraveler1790 2 года назад

I would love to go on a ship ride with Jock Willis. Maybe even be able to wear that fancy hat.

@PortCharmers 2 года назад

Is it just me or does Turbinia's bow wave at 35:10 look like it's been painted onto the photograph? And the Holland Sub's pitted surface makes me curious about how she passed the time between decommission and restoration. The Great Britain has been through some less that glorious times and I find it astonishing what an effort has been made to rebuild her insides. I hope to see her for real some day.

@ashleelarsen5002 2 года назад

Isn't the whole thing painted?

@truesosense7722 Месяц назад

@@ashleelarsen5002 No it's a picture, but it is very damaged

@williamhilbert8324 2 года назад

Love the turbinia such a sleek ⛵

@timd4524 2 года назад

So when are we going to cover the Lexington/Concord thing?

@heard3879 2 года назад

The British didn't learn too quickly.... If sneaking up on the enemy weren't so Un-British.... Maybe they'd have had better luck in the American Revolution, but no, they wore red coats in the woods. And in this video we learn they didn't want to make submarines at first because sneaking up on the enemy would still have been too Un-British. Really funny actually.

@RehabProjectSRCB Год назад

Crazy to see this old ship out of water, part of the Victorian past with a helicopter over top it. 27:58

@Meine.Postma 2 года назад

What I want to know is how long the "Warrior" was the biggest battle ship.

@sagebiddi 2 года назад

Lol I hear you Broseph Stalin....I was thinking like "for what...the summer?"

@eliotreader8220 2 года назад

despite being a floating fortress I think HMS Warrior looks beautiful

@robkunkel8833 2 года назад

All the expert commentators and still no one knows the answer. There’s no such thing as a bad question …. this one has them all confused, Meine Postma.

@sagebiddi 2 года назад

Ooh I've heard about this happening before...I've never seen it first hand tho. When someone who desires flaunting unimpressive intellectual prowess and ingrained in being a smug asshat about it they actually go into a kinda tunnel vision hallucination and see things out of context instead of using that same energy to respectfully engage with what they often forget is complete strangers they don't even know ...cool .

@lovelyjanuary 2 года назад

I think in the video he said it was in commission for about 10 years as the height of its supremacy right after it debuted.

@paulazemeckis7835 2 года назад

Great documentary. I thought the Hunley was the first sub back in America's civil war?

@wvwombat4866 2 года назад

Hunley was the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel.

@1894db 2 года назад

Who chose the title for this video? It's misleading

@jamesbugbee6812 2 года назад

Could have taken a side trip to see what is in effect a William White pre-dreadnought, IJN Mikasa, sole representative of 40+ battleships which were the true representatives of British naval supremacy, in the end-Victorian & Edwardian era.

@hrvojebartulovic7870 2 года назад

Being a non English speaker, the thing that blows my mind is how all English speakers whenever talking about the sea say "the water"!!!!! And yet they call the French "the frogs"! Rulers of the water 🤕

@SyntaxError83 2 года назад

I wish I pronounced anything as delightfully as he pronounces "experiment".

@ronalddevine9587 2 года назад

How did all of this, especially Warrior, impact the U.S. Navy? I'm sure it had major implications.

@tauceti8341 2 года назад

Other way around, they saw us psychopaths fighting each other in the civil war, and saw the first iron clad battleship duel, and all of Europe went.... Ooooh fuck. We need some of those. And thus spawned this wonderful beauty HMS Warrior. absolutely marvelous

@ronalddevine9587 2 года назад

@@tauceti8341 I am sure the U.S. NAVY perceived HMS Warrior as a threat. From what I've read, the Royal Navy was planning on fighting the U.S. Navy during the interwar years. The Special Relationship between Britain and America didn't really happen until WW2.

@cpcw06 2 года назад

"The Tragic Story Of The Victorian RMS Tayleur" ..... show spends all of 6 minutes talking about it. Great title

@AstheCrowTries 2 года назад

Same. I was hoping for more Victorian imperialism failing spectacularly...

@wallflower1852 2 года назад

Thank you for helping me not waste my time...

@traceeteeter9875 2 года назад

Thanks for he warning!

@thecreepynightshiftguy 2 года назад

Horribly titled video. Yeah, they cover the RMS Tayleur... just about 19 minutes into the video! Don't blink though, they finish up with the Tayleur about 6 minutes later. 86% of the runtime has nothing to do with the Tayleur. This is pure clickbait. I'm glad I used an ad-blocker.

@thekingdomofnarwhals2225 2 года назад

I'm sorry but HOW DID NO ONE NOTICE THESE ISSUES BEFORE THEY LEFT. I understand not knowing about the rudder BUT HOW DO YOU MISS 2 MISSING ENGINES???

@PortCharmers 2 года назад

WHAT???!!! Fashionable Victorian dinner included foul fish? But seriously, is it really impossible to get people interested in ships without establishing a connection to Titanic?

@AlextheHistorian 2 года назад

Unfortunately, the subject of Titanic is almost always the gateway into the ship interest. Every friend I have that is interested in ships, all began their fascination with the Titanic, even me. Though, gladly we can all say that Titanic is not any of our favorite ship, mine is the RMS Queen Mary. There's nothing wrong with connecting ships to the Titanic, its a great way to grow the ship fanclub.

@lovelyjanuary 2 года назад

I assume you’re joking about the fowl and fish lololol but I get your point about the Titanic 🤣🤣

@NoraTSS2077 2 года назад

Greatest experiment since creation ? Wow, imagine having an ego this big.

@lovelyjanuary 2 года назад

Unfortunately we had an orange faced time traveller as President for four years to remind us lolololol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🙅🏻‍♀️🙅🏻‍♀️🙅🏻‍♀️🙅🏻‍♀️

@me-nah3343 2 года назад

You forgot slavery, class warfare, child labour, colonial subjugation.

@davejoyford1815 2 года назад

and penicillin

@benoosha4947 2 года назад

A very interesting documentary. Rather ironic and hypocritical however, that Michael Buerk highlighted and implicitly criticized the Victorians for their delineated society (rich or poor) when he and his BBC type acolytes live in similarly rich surroundings safely separated from the less well off.

@stevewixom9311 2 года назад

In the pic at 14:11 is suspose to be the Britain. Why does she seem to have an American flag at the fantail?

@cthornton0706 Год назад

Y’all have the sea and us Americans have the sky

@thjonez 2 года назад

who knew?

@OstblockLatina 2 года назад

The tragic story of MS Tayleur and some other ships for military purposes, or the short history of rich and powerful building expensive war-toys with the hands of the poor and weak in order to combat other rich and powerful in order to have them cater to their expensive whims through the work of their poor and weak.

@RehabProjectSRCB Год назад

Weird to think many nations the US included has never had a female leader. And yet 137years of the last 200 have been lead by just 2 Queens in Britain.

@thegoodgamingdragon8523 2 года назад

RMS Tayleur of the White Star Line during the pre ismay era

@saltyspittoon 2 года назад

This has 666 views when I clicked it....

@DanielReyes-nm3lw 2 года назад

Omg

@helenamirian908 2 года назад

In another one of your very own documentaries, you parrot the quote by (the horribly racist) H. G. Wells that (paraphrased) "Victoria sat on men's minds like a paperweight for 50 years" implying that her reign somehow impeded progress.

@AR-ws1gr 2 года назад

I guess she favored some areas, but weighted others.

@maxmadden5205 2 года назад

Warrior would be made obsolete the day the USS Monitor was launched.

@ValleysOfRain 2 года назад

You mean the 6-knot single gun ironclad that had so little freeboard and poor seaworthiness that it sank in the first major storm it encountered?

@the101stdalmatian8 2 года назад

@@ValleysOfRain No. I think he means the rotating turret that made it so that even a massive iron clad warship with bristling gundeck couldn't evade it's ability to rotate that single gun. You might have the biggest, sharpest, most evil looking knife...but it's nothing against a little peashooter. The USS Monitor made every other warship design obsolete overnight. Not with it's physical design, but with the ideas behind it.