The Wreck of the Schooner "WYOMING", the Largest Wooden Ship in History 

Or people really weren't as racist as you've been led to believe. Not saying it didn't exist but it wasn't to the magnitude people nowadays make it seem.

> Keeping plenty of coffee, salt, red and black pepper and cocoa for life support. Then plenty of lard and sourdough for baking bread and frying meats and fish. Then plenty of canned fruits and vegetables to balance out the sacks of potatoes and onions normally used. And finally willing to bake cookies, cakes and pies and being a good barber and first aid technician, including pulling teeth would pull in a good salary.

@@carlwest859 Absolutely, excellent comment! In this case, one could actually state “but wait, there’s more!” & really mean it. Ships’ crews constantly changed, & when in port they certainly talked. If a cook could do all those things & do them well, it’s not hard to imagine an occasional bidding war breaking out between masters, each wanting to procure the services of an exceptional cook to keep their crewmen happy & productive.

I would like to know to. Curious??

@@carlwest859 so a hardworker? 😉

Thx for sharing. Interesting

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Makes no sense that a ship would drop anchor in the ocean (!!!) to ride out a major storm. Either the story here is wrong, or there was some other unmentioned factor.

Wooden ship

@@PRH123 Perhaps meant a sea anchor, a fabric funnel device to keep the bow pointing to the current,

Yup

We should give him a nickname, hank the tank eeeerrrrrrr

(*hank hill voice) "Baaaaaaaa"

I loved the little moment of silence.

On her 106th (ish) voyage, the Wyoming disappeared… But then she was discovered on the sea floor 76 years later, damaged after having weathered a fierce gale!

My heart sank during that pause. It was well played

Would have been a very short video then! Glad it wasn't.

He got me. I was expecting roll credits

Yes, the five and six mast examples seem too long for their sections.

And made of pine..

It was risky business

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Probably always overloaded

As I recall, the life of a wooden ship was about 10 years. This could be extended by plating the hull under the waterline with copper. Also, wooden ships will eventually sunrot. (I have personal experience with this. This first deep sea trip I took was in a wooden yacht that had been sunrotting for 25 years. It sank.)

​@mikemesser4326 wooden ships are still sailing some as old as 250 years.

tbh, unless you are talking galleys and thus the need for a ton of people rowing, merchant vessels never have a lot of people on them. Really there are only 4 main categories to put a ship into: Military, leisure, scientific & merchant (there can be some overlap, esp with scientific, and if you go back in time, ships tend to pull double duty as merchantmen during peace and warships during war, even in modern times this happens to some degree with ships being pressed into military service). Leisure as is obvious tend to be the smallest of the bunch and even the biggest really only have a handful of people on them. Merchant ships just have enough people to do what needs to be done, sometimes less.... as few people means fewer paychecks to hand out. (I would put fishing vessels in this category as well, since at the end of the day, they are about making money). Military are, well, military. You know the drill, they have tons of people in comparison to other vessels of similar size. Hell, a Nimitz class carrier has about 1/7 the population of my city during peacetime and around 1/5 of the population when conducting combat operations. (city has around 35k people) Scientific is likely the most variable in terms of crew size (not counting peace/war crew differences here). The can be pretty small, little more than a glorified cabin cruiser. Or they can be the 8,900 ton displacement Octopus (the one Paul Allen funded). All in all, aside from military ships, where something like an Arleigh Burke class destroyer, which is only a little heavier than Octopus, has something like 5x the crew, this being a microcosm of military vessels. Most ships only have a handful of people. Even Octopus only has a crew of around 60. And merchant vessels in particular are highly incentivized to have as few people on board as possible due to profit margins. You are right to marvel at how small those crews are though. At least I think we are right to do so. Through design of the ship (including the tech & toys it gets, also upgrades) along with revising operations, and simply getting people better at their jobs, a well built, well run and well crewed ship is a masterclass in efficiency. caveat: I used Octopus as an example for scientific stuff because she is massive and thus represents, more or less a top end for that kind of civilian owned/run scientific ship. When talking military scientific ships, well just what do you call a ship like the Glomar Explorer during its original intended purpose (that being the theft of a Soviet suibmarine)? Military run specialist ships like that are a wildcard.

Schooners were designed to sail with less crew than square riggers, which is why schooners eventually replaced clipper ships. They were cheaper to operate.

Check out the Stad Amsterdam, they operate her with a crew of 12.

@@bellakaldera3305 The last commercial sailing ships were square riggers. They ran the Australian Grain Trade around Cape Horn and they were almost all barques with four masts. The first three were rigged with square sails. 3000 tons and they carried a crew of about 25. But they were built mostly all before 1910. THey couldn't match the schooner for low crew numbers but they could run in front of the wind

​@@mebeasensei The Finnish crew was cheap labour, and the owner was a legendary cost-cutter.

The Germans built two steel hulled square rigged clippers in the 1930's to carry grain... was economically beneficial still at that time to use sail... one was sunk in the war, the other was captured and still belongs to the Russian navy and has participated in tall ships events for decades...

Is this a reference to propane and propane accessories?

“Butane is a bastards gas”

Same length as the arc , lol

I imagine something like Mike Brady's "Sail fail" but bigger.

Hard work. I crewed on 200ft square rig for 8 days and was exhausted when I got off her.

Can you imagine the sound of creaking wood and crashing waves against the bow?

@@ddd228 - I was imagining the creaking across the length of a 400' deck.....and the billow of 13,000 yards of sail....hard to imagine.

Imagine her "flexing" with every big roller! Yikes!. But yeah, imagine a boat that big hauling on a long reach, what a rush!

The 180's also had that classic wooden helm. I was on one from 98-99.

Yesser it was

I had a feeling it was

“That boy ain’t right” -Hank Hill

@@PartTimeExplorer, absolutely hilarious.😂

The Wyoming would have faired better if she was hauling propane.

Titanic 2 engine cylinder engineering room

Titanic 2 engine cylinder engineering room

Dead Wake, about the Lusitania, is a great book. I've had the chance to read nearly all of Larsen's books.

Ok, five. But you don't count my hippie buddy in the park in Casper.

@@pwmvsi lol I left too, but hope to move back some day.

We have more antelope than people living here.😁 I love Wyoming!

Well yeah... Now. Population was much lower back then. 😝

We still only have less than most City's in Amarica

I used to regularly go shopping in Bath. Still elegant with it's 18 century crescent and 2000 year old Roman baths, but some way from Wyoming. All the best from England.

great story.enjoyed it very much.

@@andrewhoward7200 I think you are confusing Bath England with its Roman Bath and the Crescent street with Bath, Maine USA.

@@bis1254 I think it's satire

Bant Hanson, the designer of the ship was my great grandfather.

@@erichanson3961that’s so cool! I have some amazing prints/paintings and even a blueprint section view of the ship!

also 13:18

On her 106th (ish) voyage, the Wyoming disappeared… But then she was discovered on the sea floor 76 years later, damaged after having weathered a fierce gale!

Technically they're not tall shops as they're schooner rigged, not square rigged

Me too

Me three.

I must be the 4th one then!

I don’t get it? Please help…

Different Acushnet kind sir.

Well if it was to be the same ship the Coast Guard would be a good guess. The USCG Bluebell was made in WWII and is still in service on the Columbia River. She is Not the oldest ship in the Coast Guard and I do not mean the sailing ship Eagle the war prize from Germany.

@@josephpadula2283 Inland buoy work is much easier on the ships than open ocean work, two to three days at a time working buoys in fresh water is no comparison to the Bering in winter. The ship he was talking about was in USCG service from 1946 until 2011, and shared the name of the ship in the story.

BW Bacon. I wish her well with smooth sailing and following seas. Served 1977 - 2002.

Indeed ! Brings back memories of the old cabin I renovated in Santa Cruz, CA...Sided in old growth Redwood having the tightest and straightest grain I've ever seen. I have a fair bit of American Chestnut here at home that was milled around 1890, similar grain.

I second that I live here in kinnakeet the farthest part of island on outer banks called hatteras island I live this place plenty of wreck off beach lives here my whole life family goes back over 400 years here

My family ended up in America at the outset of the Revolution. Military aged males were taken from their Scot highlands village and pressed into royal navy service. My great(x7) grandfather and 2 others jumped ship in the night off the coast of the Outer Banks and swam to shore, eventually making their way inland and joining the war. Much of my dads extended family still live in North Carolina and east Tennessee. I can't imagine making that swim.

@@darrenhooper2207 Vacationed there a couple years ago, absolutely beautiful area.

@@deancarr4507 I love this place I call this my home I was born here I absolutely love it and a wonderful place for vacations

@@darrenhooper2207 Lucky man to live there, cheers!

“ ...with great enthusiasm. “. Absolutely perfect. Cheers LOL

Wooden sailing ships didn't pollute the environment or need expensive fuel to operate. They definitely have their good sides. Also, they're beautiful works of art and engineering. Wood has a character all it's own. Metal is a cold impersonal material. Wood is organic...like us.

A friend of mine had, and spent decades restoring, a two mast schooner. Wooden ships have a beauty no metal or glassfibre vessel can match. Every time I see a marina and find just one not very pretty wooden boat, I feel sad. I miss the wooden ships very much. If ever I get a chance, I'd love to work on one.

Had things panned out better, I actually would have been at Mallow's Bay today. It's definitely a future video. As I understand it, many of the Mallow's Bay ships were part of the Emergency Fleet, which also produced the concrete ships, such as the Atlantus that I did a video on a year ago

@@PartTimeExplorer - Having been born in Cape May, N.J., I'm familiar with the concrete ships...

Love your work

Paul?

If you were wondering, the original line is at 5:43

One reason why those grand old schooners had a shelf life of only about 5 years.

I’ll try to double check that with the museum itself, but a site I’ve found seems to list all their ships as gone, with the possible exception of a couple barges.

@@PartTimeExplorer damn, thats... quite soul crushing actually.

@@RailPreserver2K True, it's sad to think that all of those epic vessels are gone forever, but the reality is that ships built of organic materials have a limited lifespan. At least there's a wonderful museum on site dedicated to telling the story of that shipyard and the mighty ships that they built. A number of years ago, after reading about a similar former shipyard, I was curious enough to take a drive out to the site of a former nineteenth century shipyard in rural Nova Scotia, and was disappointed to find nothing in the grassy fields but a gently sloping rectangle of land that extended down into the water, which had to have been a slipway. There were no buildings or anything else left that would indicate that there had been a thriving community attached to a hub of schooner manufacturing. No museum tells the story of the generations of people who worked there, or the families who lived there until the shipyard closed.

@@PartTimeExplorer The Silver Dancer, a (by comparison) very small crab vessel still sits in the harbor at Asticou, Arcadia, Maine... though not one of the Great Ships, she was build by thesame hands as a side job of the Yards at Small... was a participant of Tall ship races for a time, more recently, has been used as a set in various films... been on her 15years back, not sure how she is now, but, possibly one can still see her? did not know she was such a rarity at the time...

Cora F. Cressy, a five-master built by Percy and Small in 1902- that survived the same gale that took Wyoming- is in Bremen, Maine, in a state of advanced deterioration.

SS Great Eastern you mean? SS means steam ship, but she still carried an acre of sail.

SS Great Eastern was a steam ship. But she did carry an acre of sail.

And Great Eastern was iron hulled. This doc was about the biggest wooden ship.