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.

As someone who's been on several actual historical ships…I am surprised, how no one seems to comment on what an amazing animated 3D tutorial this is....we are taking a lot of hard work for granted watching this, thank you!

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

What strikes me about these ships is how flexible and modular everything had to be; the gun decks are also mess halls and sleeping quarters. Raising anchors was a huge task that required clearing the decks, and even high-ranking officers are sleeping with a cannon or two as their roommate.

it's hard to imagine how did the designer, builder centuries ago orchestra this huge project with many parts cooperating together and the ship was functionable and workable. they have to know so many kinds of knowledge, military, sailing, physics, astronomy， meteorolgy, fire safety, air ventialation etc.incredible

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

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.

This is a wonderful companion document for a film like Master and Commander. It really opens the eyes to what was exactly in that ship! Tremendous piece of work.

This is an amazing video. I think I learned more from this video than from anything else that I have ever watched on KZfaq. Those ships were so wonderfully designed with not a foot of wasted space. It's hard to believe that something like that could be engineered over 200 years ago. Thanks again for your hard work in creating this excellent video.

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

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.

Absolutely incredible work lad. Keep it up! HIstory needs people like you. (As do we all.) Cheers. Go back 300 years. Go back 1,000 years -- and I daresay go back 5,000 years. Human beings are incredibly adaptive and smart. You just illustrated it perfectly.

A remarkable piece of work! Truly amazing artwork and animations, telling a complex story in a clear and unhurried manner. Like others here, my jaw was dropped throughout the video in awe at how complex such a ship was. Hearty thanks and huge respect to the creators for this.

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.

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.

Outstanding work. While I appreciate your attention to detail and accuracy, I am even more overwhelmed by the remarkable deftness you possess in using graphics to easily see how each of the various parts work within the whole of the ship. Nicely done!

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!

The copper hull plating was mainly a defence against the dreaded 'toredo worm'. The salt water equivalent of wood worm. It could literally eat away the lower hull causing the ship to sink without warning. It also discouraged other marine growths like barnacles and similar, which slowed the ship down. The first copper plates were fixed with iron nails. But immersed in acidic salt water it formed a simple battery with the copper. Causing the iron to both rust and be eaten away. And the copper plates all fell off. Later fixings used copper rivets.

Exceptional video, my wife and I watched this together, we both thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot. Thank you.

Mannn! I hope you’ll make more 18th century stuff and earlier! Like on catapults or ballistas or what not. The engineering back then seems so much more fascinating! Awesome video!❤

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

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.

Wow! Superb video! I was on Victory earlier this year and at 6 foot tall, it was tight!! How those boys worked in those conditions is beyond me!

Really, really well done. In depth enough to be informative yet not so many facts to be overwhelming. I've watched hundreds of documentaries over the years and I don't believe I've seen a half dozen that have taught so much, so well in such a short time.

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!

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.

Absolutely wonderful stuff. I would love to see Jacob illustrate a modern-day carrier or destroyer. Maybe even go back an age and do a battleship. Beautiful graphics. Nice work Mr. O’Neal.

Wow, the modelling, animation, narration, writing, and flow of this had me captivated from the get go. Really nice work. Very informative and the information flows wonderfully. This is some of the better stuff I've seen in a while.

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.

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 !!!

I am stunned by your command of your craft, or rather of the several or many crafts that it took to make this superb video. Well done and thank you!

I'm currently reading a series of novels on the British Navy at this time and one of the things the author noted that none of the many other authors of this topic never mentioned that was really significant was that if you are on the second gun level or the center gun deck you have many canons firing over you, under you and all around you. I had to be deafening and it would rock you to your core, it would shake your bones. Also, although there are open gun ports, most of that canon smoke would still be trapped in there with you. It would be very hard to breath. I would love to see a modern version of Nelson's story in a series that makes effective use of modern-day special effects to showcase that environment. That would be a truly awesome spectacle for any mini-series - Alexandia, Copenhagen and Trafalgar all of them were awesome victories and simply moving these vessels in concert is extraordinarily difficult. To sail into another countries port with your fleet and attack their fleet or to split you line of battle in the face of another fleet would take enormous coordination and skill. And to be able to effectively employ weapons while doing all that with only sails for power and signal flags for communication was simply genius. The enormity of the genius of the British Navy at that time cannot be understated and honestly, it's a story that really needs to be told. I know there is some older movies on this topic, but they are not even close to realistic in showing the skill, the horrific conditions, the sacrifice and valor of these brave men. With all the garbage in the movies nowadays I think a historical epic of that magnitude is long overdue. And Nelson's personal story and love life are also rather interesting as a side note. I remember standing in Trafalgar Square many years ago looking up to the top of that column at Nelson's statue and thinking, this is so great, really great, but it's just not enough for that great man nor for the magnificent British Navy.

This is incredible animation work, and aesthetically pleasing too! I've read books such as the Master and Commander series, and though the sailors' activities are described quite well, it's hard to picture the actual ship they're working in. This really rounds out my understanding. These ships are some of the highest tech of the day, and I can't even imagine the expense to build, equip, and man them. Thanks for creating and sharing this video!

Ok, so this is completely mind-blowing. The level of engineering that goes into building one of these things is simply amazing. So incredibly complex!

Wow, as a model shipbuilder who is currently building the HMS Victory from plans acquired from the British Maritime Museum this video is invaluable as a great resource to further understand the plans. Incredible work was spent making this video. Respects and much appreciation for this hard work! Subscribed.

Fantastic video. HMS Victory was an incredible ship for its time, a fearsome warship. It still sits on show in Portsmouth, southern England to this day.

Absolutely amazing video. Clear, concise, and with plenty of detail that’s understandable. Also, devoid of background clutter that you see in many videos that makes watching somewhat confusing. Would love to see more videos like this. Very well done.

I'm a Navy man and love these old ships. This is the best study I've seen. Very informative. Rigging breakdown was superb.

This video is fantastic. As a history buff, I've always wondered about the details of these ships. This animation is far and away beyond anything I could've ever expected to see. Well, narrated with such detail as well. I think this video is an immensely successful undertaking not just in the superb graphics but the historical detail of the narration. Your team has set the standard that other such historical accounts must measure themselves against. This is truly a valuable contribution to the body of historical literature. I mean...damn!!!

I had no idea just how sophisticated these things were. Such mind blowing feat of engineering for their time. Thanks so much for the video. I learned ALOT from it.

Just discovered your wonderful site, and plan to check out all your videos. I did my apprenticeship as a shipwright back in the mid-to-late 1960s, and this walk-through has brought back many fond memories of my time as a young ship builder - albeit of modern vessels.

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.

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.

The warmth of the exposed kitchen stove flue above the main deck was, and is still, called the "Charley Noble". It's an area where sailors could relax and talk after their work day. I was on destroyer 50+ years ago. A Petty Officer aboard our ship came from a dedicated NAVY family who named their son "Charlie Noble." That name made him sort of a celebrity.

One small point to make on the sponge (or more correctly- swab) rammers. They wet them not only to put out sparks but to create a vacuum when drawing out of the barrel. At the touch hole another gunner would put a leather clad thumb over it to create the necessary vacuum. When done correctly a distinct "pop" can be heard when the sponge is withdrawn from the barrel end thus ensuring all sparks die out in the vacuum.

In the director’s commentary for “Master and Commander”, they describe the ships/navy of the time as the equivalent of NASA. This video helps make clear just how advanced everything was. You’ve made an incredibly valuable teaching companion to one of my favorite films. Thank you! 🙏

This is the kind of content, YT was made for. Absolutely awesome and unique, got my sub immediately.

This is INCREDIBLY well done! I know nothing about ships and have been looking around online for good sources to do some research (I'm a writer). This is by far the most detailed and easy to comprehend breakdown of how (this type of) ship is build and works! Thank you for your hard work!

The excellence of this video comes from your careful hearing the sensible organization of the ship's design speaking to you I am moved to tears, thank you

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. 👏🏻

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!

No wonder it took a year to build and cost £63176 ( over £50 million in todays money ). Amazing craftmanship. That video must have taken ALOT of time to make, well done dude!

Wow, thank you for this. I can’t tell you how many times when I’ve been reading a book about sea travel in olden days that I just couldn’t imagine what was being described on the page. This will help me visualize things much better in the future! 🙏😄

As a sailor, it was quite an amazing thing to watch how vessels were operated back then. I was particularly surprised at how much weight those ships carried. Great video :)

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

I've recently discovered your channel and... Oh god, the level of detail is incredible. I'm just amazed. Thank you

Amazing work guys! As a young kid in the 1960s I could only dream of books or films with such details, it's like a dream come true. Thank you for such a real treat :)

Spectacular depiction of a ship of the line. I cant even begin to imagine the effort it took to lay this before us. Many many thanks.

HOLY BILGE RAT Captain! I never realized how complex these old sailing vessels were! Thanks for this impressive presentation!

Hey! I want to thank you so much! I make bottle ships, and I was intrigued by your video as I was looking into the finer details olden sail ships to make faithful models. What a meticulously made and finely crafted tutorial, I learnt a lot!

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

As someone who’s in the process of learning to operate vastly more modern ships today and has a latent interest in the design and operations of old sail vessels, this video has been one of the most concise and informative I have come across. Thank you greatly for your research and presentation. Also I’m very glad my job has very little to do with walking around a capstan

I got pointed here because I've been learning Blender so I can make a 3D "pirate airship". My skills are limited, but I can tell that even for a 3D master, this must have taken a huge amount of work. Well done, very much appreciated!

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

This 'virtual' tour of HMS Victory is a phenomenal teaching aid. Brought up in the south of England, I've had the privilige of visiting the Victory a few times. She is in dry dock in Portsmouth, Hampshire. This 'virtual' tour makes you realise how much design and craftsmanship went into making a 'ship of the line' like this. Thanks for the eye-opening 'tour'. Much appreciated.

In the UK we often refer to children as nippers. As stated here the anchor cable was attached to the messenger using small ropes called nippers, this task had to be done by the ship's boys who used to run backwards and forwards tying and untying these ropes, the name nippers stuck and became commonplace in the UK. Also prior to battle gangways between decks were removed and replaced with nets, this was to protect them from cannon fire and the crew from splinters. The boys who had to carry the powder charges to the guns would scurry up and down these looking like monkeys, hence the nickname powder monkey.

Brilliant video. Thank you. The quality of the 3D model, the animation and the detailed narration throughout were all 1st class. Subscribed and very impressed. 👏🏼

Regarding the anchors: Simply raising the anchors was comparably easy to do. Problems started when you wanted to leave an anchorage under adverse wind-conditions. In this case you had to raise on anchor, load it onto the launch and row the launch out to sea. There you dropped the anchor from the launch and allowed it to sink to the bottom. Now you hauled in the anchor you just dropped, while carefully allowing the other anchorcable to go slack. That way you dragged your ship out to sea. You now used the launch to raise the original anchor, move it even further out to sea, drop it and start the whole process anew until you could safely raise sails. This process was called 'warping' and was several hours of gruesome labour. Warp-speed was neither fast nor pleasant back in the days.

Former FMF Corpsman here. Spent 7 years in the Navy. Nothing but respect and admiration for this generation of sailors, and those before. Those men must have been tough as nails.

Your presentation is as amazing as the ship itself. A patient, thorough examination of the ship's anatomy and rigging offers a privileged eye on life afloat during that fascinating era. Tanx muchly!

What an amazing craft. And what a terrific job you did making this explainer. I feel better for having learned about these ships.

The Victory was the intercontinental ballistic missile of its day. You have done us a greater service than any other video available of this masterpiece. It must have taken a HUGE effort on your part, but well worth it to us! Thank you!

Ships are not my main point of interest, but I gave it a try. As an engineer I loved the technical details and the calm presentation which allowed me to appreciate the giant amount of thought and hundrets of years of engineering experiene that went into these ships. Thank you for this nice unagitated video that made my day already much better. Maybe, you created a Ship-Fan, because now I want to know more 🙂

This is such an awesome video. Just found it on my recommendations list and holy cow what an amazing effort. Thanks for this epic animation, explanation and overall video. Great work!!!!

Absolutely amazed by the dedication and attention to details of your videos. Learning a lot from this wonderful channel. Hats off, master. Best regards from Bogota, Colombia 🇨🇴.

I don't often feel compelled to leave a comment but I need to express how impressive this video is, with its excellent narration and high-quality animation, as well as being informative and fascinating. Awesome content. Off to check out the rest of your channel now.

I can’t imagine the amount of work that goes into making animations of this quality. Thank you for all your hard work, this one is simply stunning. I’ve visited HMS Victory in Portsmouth several times and wish I could have seen this first.

That was truly amazing! Thanks so much for creating it!

There was an hms victoria built in the 1850’s that was the last triple decker ship of the line ever built by the English empire. That was at the peak of the largest empire of all time. I love learning about it’s working

I'm completely dumbfounded by the incredible detail of both the ship and this video. I have no idea how many months was spent making this, but thank you so much. It's amazing.

I love to see a subject get the treatment it deserves. That ship -- this video. The high level of skill and sheer hard work that went into both the ship, and this video. Appropriate, worthy, impressive as hell. BRAVO!!!

Battleship is a term first used in the 1880s to describe the largest steam driven, armoured iron or steel warships carrying big breech-loading rifled guns. This video is about a warship, specifically a ship of the line. No one in Nelson’s time would have heard or understood the term battleship. A few other small points; you have the ships wheel operating in reverse, turn the wheel to port and the tiller will turn to starboard which directs the ship to port. There is no ‘pinnacle boat’, the term is ‘pinnace’.

Bravo!!! A really amazing educational exploration of these ships. The rendering was perfect. Very detailed, but also very logically presented, with astute use of layering to help orient the viewer to the overall design. I feel that I could visualize a walk-through in my mind, retaining a good bit accuracy due to your efforts. Keep these coming, your work is wonderful.

I am astounded at the level of detail and information you are able to communicate about a ship so quickly and clearly. this is the best video of its type that I have seen.

Amazing. Your video is one of the best I’ve seen since the internet became accessible. Your articulations on all subjects are first class, giving even the non sailors a helpful, rudimentary understanding of the concepts on the boat design and functions. I was even starting to imagine what it might feel like to be each of the different ranking crew members. I’m blown away by this video. Thank you for creating it. ❤

Amazing video, well done!!! You view something like this and you realize how demanding, knowledgeable, even terrifying maybe, the job of the ship's captain was and why their word had to be obeyed without question or hesitation.

This is an absolutely fabulous animation but, the animation is only a part of it. The vast amount of knowledge you've imparted via this incredibly great animation is, if I may properly use this word, AMAZING!!!!! Thank you so much for this magnificent creation and sharing with everyone! The overall complexity of designing, building and, ultimately operating a ship of this caliber is a totally different story in itself. Thank you again.

Love your videos! They must take a LOT of work- Especially ones like this! Judging by the popularity of videos by artists showing the creation of a picture from start to finish, I would imagine a video showing your work process would garner a lot of attention, too

This is not only the coolest ship video I've ever seen, but also the most entertainingly informative. Thank You, Animagraffs Channel. I am now happily forced to both like and subscribe. I can only imagine the amazing effort you must've put into these graphic displays. Seriously, bravo!! This is fantastic! 💜

This is seriously the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. In a short amount of time you like educated me to so many things I knew nothing about, and I generally consider myself an intelligent person. I love what you do! How interesting this ship is, makes me wonder about so many old or ancient mechanisms that are considered to be simple yet in reality are so well thought out and complex. Keep up the great work.

Fun fact, the bitts (the wooden pieces the anchor cable attaches to) is where we get the term "to the bitter end" ie to release the entire anchor cable to the end attached to the bitt.

What a brilliant and concisely informative video this is. I have a couple of minor quibbles with it but they don't detract from the overall presentation. The graphics are superb. Well done.

Congratulations to the production team - truly mind-blowing, yet really informative. I never realised how little I knew about these sailing masterpieces. Sheer ingenuity and brute force throughout. In the heat of battle, with sailors, guns, rigging and sails blasted into oblivion, it must have taken enormous courage and clarity of thought to have 'kept it together' and continue to operate a fighting vessel. This video is a must for any naval historian, budding or accomplished.

I have never seen such attention to detail and such high quality animation on some particular subject. This is really impressive Your work reminds me of some old books like “Incredible Cross-sections” by Stephen Biesty’s, but the much modern and better version of it. As a child in the 80s/90s, books like these fascinated me. I can say that they were a huge influence in my formation as an adult and in becoming an engineer myself. I truly hope your videos can inspire newer engineering generations to come. I wish I could see what kinds of things they will create in the future. Engineering is really a passion of mine, and this thought really warms my heart :) Keep up the good work! Ps: This video was my “gateway drug” to all of your other videos ;)

This piece of work itself should be in the Smithsonian! Immensely informative and easy to understand. How long did it take to research and produce this masterpiece?

I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you for putting it together. Just reread the Horatio Hownblower series for the umpteenth time and this has helped me visualize many of the details much more clearly.

Great video! The best walk-through of a sailing vessel I have every had. Top-notch.

Stunning. I can't imagine how a designer was able to put such a complex structure together so that it could function efficiently. in war. I have visited the Victory 3 times in the last 60 years and got the standard tour, but I learned more about it from your video in half an hour than from all of the visits.

I’ve been on that ship so many times (my grandfather knew the curator many years ago and no matter how busy it was I never queued once), but still there are things about it that surprise me every now and then. Last time, about ten years ago, I got to wander around without a guide and that was truly a great moment. Right after that my boss (a second sea lord, SAM for those in the know), it was once his ship and he said it was always interesting holding a banquet on it

This is simply amazing both your animation and knowledge but also the sheer amount of engineering that took place on these.