Fun fact: oak has antimicrobial properties and so splinter wounds tended not to get infected. Ships made of Asian hard woods like teak did not have this advantage and so teak was discontinued for warship construction even though no one at the time understood what or why this was happening. Also I have read that the floors of the gun decks on British war ships were painted red so the blood would be less visible and so less demoralizing. Buckets of sand were provided if the floors became too slippery. Sounds like a good time all 'round...
@rustknuckleirongut81072 жыл бұрын
With the vigorous cleaning of decks and hard use that happens on age of sail English warships I doubt the deck was painted. It would wear off rather quickly being scrubbed with holystones quite often. The sanding the deck to make it less slippery in combat part is true.
@chrisbrent74872 жыл бұрын
The interiors were painted blood red.
@zhufortheimpaler40412 жыл бұрын
@@chrisbrent7487 the Bulkheads, inside of the Hull and oder structures were painted red. the Deck was left unpainted
@paavobergmann49202 жыл бұрын
warfare in the age of sails was unimaginably brutal. And we didn´t even start thinking about boarding parties.... Fun fact no. 2: oak dust is classifies as hazardous substance, as it is cancerogenic and can lead to allergies. Teak has the advantage of being naturally oily, so it doesn´t degrade in prolonged contact with sea water. It is also slightly toxic and can cause allergies. (tbh, oak does also fare pretty well in water due to its tannine content, but it tends to cause iron to rust pretty quickly for the same cause)
@borjesvensson86612 жыл бұрын
@@rustknuckleirongut8107 don't know really about that. I work with oak all day and if u get deep splinters they get puss and infected if i dont pull them out.
@JohnSmith-jp5bj2 жыл бұрын
One thing I noticed and never thought of before, the need to secure the elevation blocks to the cannon. Also shows another advantage of the screw elevator because it won't require extra work to secure.
@Nala15-Artist Жыл бұрын
Shooting a plyboard with a small cannon for purposes of reconstruction is like shooting a piece of tin foil with a musket and then concluding that gunshot wounds weren't something you needed to worry about. So glad some people finally started taking reconstructive archaeology seriously last decade.
@antiussentiment2 жыл бұрын
Dracinifel sent me.. ~ smiles ~
@khaelamensha36242 жыл бұрын
Same here! Shots of rhum to that !
@JonathanLundkvist2 жыл бұрын
Do you see Torpedo Boats?
@enjibkk68502 жыл бұрын
I was expecting to find this post right there :)
@valkry0072 жыл бұрын
Very Cool, gonna go watch Master and Commander now ! lol
@pederfallbom2 жыл бұрын
Fantastisk jobb ni gjort och vilken vacker kanon 👌🇸🇪
@ivanjednobiegowiec76562 жыл бұрын
Ouffff... Brutally savage... That last slo-mo shot... Cheers! I.
@danielsprouls94582 жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to have a bit of data, such as weight of shot and velocity.
@lukaszg22802 жыл бұрын
So You need these two videos. Please also check the descriptions. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNCCm6iazsjMc5c.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oq90qJp_tbLGp5c.html
@jamesharding34592 жыл бұрын
@@lukaszg2280 I was worried this would be one of those insufferable spam comments. I am rarely pleased to be wrong, but this is one case of that.
@chrisbrent74872 жыл бұрын
The fastest speed was just over the speed of sound and the lowest around 200 m/s. A 24lb shot.
@Dinstyvmorsa8539 Жыл бұрын
Fred Hoecker has another longer and more detailed video on the whole thing, which includes more data
@unclestone84062 жыл бұрын
I love imagining a battery of nothing but these on Oscarsborg back in *1940. Krupp guns, Whitehead torpedoes, and quadricentennial 24-pounders for _sheer dominance._ 👌
@rustknuckleirongut81072 жыл бұрын
1939?
@olefagerli73932 жыл бұрын
1940
@terrancecoard3882 жыл бұрын
Drach sent me!
@bjw48592 жыл бұрын
Now that is dedication, a pleasure to watch.
@Just_som_Ottur2 жыл бұрын
Go Drach wooo
@jonjames73282 жыл бұрын
It’s hard not to love this!
@chikitabowow9 жыл бұрын
Häftigt värre ju!
@abnurtharn29272 жыл бұрын
Bofors test center. "We make things go boom"
@handlebullshit2 жыл бұрын
This channel needs more content.
@SMGJohn2 жыл бұрын
Those things are a lot more powerful and violent than all those hollyweird movies tend to make you believe.
@mullieprop2 жыл бұрын
Check out the test with the Canon of the fregat "Jylland" I Oksboel. They used ne of her own canon on a replicated section of her hull.
@aisthpaoitht8 жыл бұрын
omg post more of these! Where is the full thing?
@tomeng95203 жыл бұрын
Vasa ship in Stockhom, you remember ?!
@sskuk10952 жыл бұрын
I'm impressed, where can I order one?
@ludecom-cz1wz2 жыл бұрын
That was groovy in a far out happening kind of way.
@borntoclimb71162 жыл бұрын
This is a mighty cannon
@brianmays17312 жыл бұрын
Needed a much longer video!
@mauriziosant16583 жыл бұрын
Jag behöver en Wasa kanon när min svärmor nalkas mitt hem.😎
@hannescamitz85757 жыл бұрын
Okej... jag är dum i huvudet.... En svensktalande person pratar och jag läser den engelska texten...
@superbird4265 жыл бұрын
Är ju inte bara svenskar som kollar på det här... så ja lite grann verkar det som 😂
@JackHiper2 жыл бұрын
Do you mind telling me if the word the Swedish guy used for missile is the normal word used in Swedish. I had never heard that one before.
@hannescamitz85752 жыл бұрын
@@JackHiper Hi there. Yes we do but we have a bit different pronunciation. Missile - missil (mis-sil) Canon - kanon (ka-non) Ammunition - ammunition (am-un-i-tion) Kind of sort. Eng - swe
@JackHiper2 жыл бұрын
@@hannescamitz8575 min svenska är dålig. Tack för hjälpen.
@MrCN669 жыл бұрын
Den kulan fortsatte rakt in i skogen och träffade en massiv tall
@HaokoTheDude9 жыл бұрын
C_N66 Gick den inte igenom tallen också? Mäktig kraft i dessa!
@MrCN669 жыл бұрын
Japp det gjorde den :)
@svantezeidlitz49108 жыл бұрын
Svartkrut är kraftiga grejer🔫💣☠
@leifhaglund68157 жыл бұрын
Leif haglund
@ursus91043 жыл бұрын
Peter Englund har en del målande och fruktansvärda beskrivningar i en av sina böcker vad den här tekniken innebar för tätt packat manskap i slagformering på 1600-talet...
@Flygtraktor2 жыл бұрын
Va bra att det var musik på!
@briananthony40442 жыл бұрын
24 pounder from the 1500s. Low velocity, about 700 meters per second I believe. Can penetrate a metre of oak in ideal conditions according to these tests. From a recent Dracinifel video.
@josephastier74212 жыл бұрын
They cast a replica gun for these tests. No way would they risk a piece of history.
@larrygrosfield49932 жыл бұрын
8 pounder. And 700 meters a second is TWICE the speed of sound. On what ocean is that "low velocity"?
@briananthony40442 жыл бұрын
700 m/s seems too high for a cannon of the period, I wonder if they supercharged it?
@zapfanzapfan2 жыл бұрын
1600s, and they tested about 200-360 m/s.
@tomeng95203 жыл бұрын
Everybody is Gangsta till Vasas 24-pundiga bronskanon show up.
@DavidVining12 жыл бұрын
I'll take two. Put them on my Visa card.
@zapfanzapfan2 жыл бұрын
You mean your Wasa-card? 🙂
@dimitriwolfs93702 жыл бұрын
It's been, it's been, A BLAST!!! LOL I bet is what he was going to say but thought better of il🐺🤣🤣🤣
@iamnolegend4832 жыл бұрын
Fascinating!
@johnv3412 жыл бұрын
I would like to make a scale model of the cannon in cast bronze. Are there any drawings, plans, photographs, or 3D files available?
@johnv3412 жыл бұрын
I would be very interested.
@johnv3412 жыл бұрын
@@hanspeterlillese2225 thank you! There is a lot of information using the Swedish search words which do not show otherwise.
@jp-um2fr Жыл бұрын
BL**DY perfect. I did note the 'elf and safety' ram. In the old days they jumped out of the way. That's a joke.
@57thorns Жыл бұрын
Den stora skillnaden mot vardagen är väl bristen på behov av hemlighetsmakeri? 🙂
@sergarlantyrell78472 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure what I expected, but that's a very small entry hole.
@keithwoodburn78952 жыл бұрын
It’s the mess it makes inside that kills an mames. Have a look at the Vasa cannon video by Dr Fred.
@sergarlantyrell78472 жыл бұрын
@@keithwoodburn7895 which is precisely why I find the small size of the entry hole so surprising (because of the carnage on the rear side).
@Sphere7232 жыл бұрын
That's what he said.
@abercrombieblovs20422 жыл бұрын
Same thing happens with a bullet - even if it passes through a very brittle material such as glass, it’s entry hole will never be any bigger than the bullet. But the shockwave from the initial impact travels through the entire length of whatever it hit, in the form of an expanding cone, making more and more shrapnel the more materials they pass through. That’s why a 19th century torpedo boat, with, by definition, no armor, would be the safest place to be - a big battleship shell will hardly do anything after passing through what’s essentially a sheet of tin.
@docstockandbarrel Жыл бұрын
👍🏻
@dein45d2 жыл бұрын
Seriously who would hit the dislike button……………
@Panzerhauptman2 жыл бұрын
What kind of ramrod was that? I've been firing muzzle-loading cannons of all sizes, 1 pound to 64 pound guns, for over 40 years and have never seen one like that. Beautiful shot though.
@cola987652 жыл бұрын
Just a guess here, but I think it has to do with not having to put hands in line of fire of loaded gun.
@Panzerhauptman2 жыл бұрын
@@cola98765 Good guess, but the gun isn't loaded until the round is pressed fully against the breach, the bag is broken, and the quill is set in the vent. Then it's a loaded gun.
@EgorKaskader2 жыл бұрын
@@Panzerhauptman Still, the powder is in the barrel, and so there's no reason not to be safe about it.
@jlasud2 жыл бұрын
Chicken Ramrod :D
@Schlipperschlopper2 жыл бұрын
what would happen if you fire 80 of these guns simultanously on a modern Leopard 2 or Leclerc tank?
@HingerlAlois2 жыл бұрын
Well if it hits the armor it probably would just bounce off without causing real damage. I guess you might be able to destroy some equipment like cameras etc. if you hit those spots.
@wonniewarrior2 жыл бұрын
@@HingerlAlois I am sure you hit the same spot 80 times, surely you got to punch through eventually
@HingerlAlois2 жыл бұрын
@@wonniewarrior I doubt it. I would expect almost no effect on modern MBT armor.
@Schlipperschlopper2 жыл бұрын
@@HingerlAlois One should try it :-) Would love to see what happens if lots (!) of old 16th century powder guns would continously fire on a modern surplus tank. (Maybe for one hour)
@PySnek2 жыл бұрын
@@Schlipperschlopper You would have at most just a bump in the armor. Modern ammunition hits so goddamn much harder.
@Erebus.666.2 жыл бұрын
Noice... Where can I buy one?
@charlesmanning58192 жыл бұрын
Awesome canon
@jamesdunn38642 жыл бұрын
I doubt if they did this but to fully authenticate this cannon they should have inscribed it with the wording "ultima ratio regum". To authenticate it as a cannon from the army of the French King, Louis XIV, le Roi-Soleil, that is.
@borjesvensson86612 жыл бұрын
Why do that when it is a copy of one of Gustavus II Adolphus 24 pounders from the il fated flagship Wasa?
@jari20183 жыл бұрын
I guess the firing might have not been authentic but at optimal circumstanses - percfect cannon balls fired with perfect powder on a fresh unpainted not moving shipside and the OAK might have been grown with big porus cells eg modern growth .
@PowerslideSWE3 жыл бұрын
So what youre saying is that 1600 era oak would have stopped that? Pretty sure that the oak used came from Visingsö where they have been growing since the 1830's. Authentic are for a few reasons an impossibility.
@renhanxue3 жыл бұрын
They actually went to quite a bit of effort to get the cannon to perform like it would have back in the 1620's. Modern powder of course doesn't behave like 1600's powder, but there are gunnery manuals from back then that provide expected ranges at certain elevations for these guns, and from that they could calculate what the muzzle velocity should be and then make a powder charge to get that velocity. Fred Hocker who you see featured in this video has written a very interesting paper about these trials, which you can check out here: kurage.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/hocker-isbsa-14-proof.pdf
@jari20183 жыл бұрын
@@renhanxue I guess they used moist powder - or why not store the powed underdeck in woden ship -let it degenerate and then fire