Haven’t watched any of it but I’ve still all ready liked it. What’s with all the cameos? It it ratings week or something? ( TV ratings , not naval ratings )

How do you find the time? Are you full time now?

In person, even better!

More fun than the actual boarding actions to be sure.

Would have been nice to get into exactly HOW you board a sailing ship. The platonic ideal, according to Boudriot, was to place yourself in the other ships path at a shallow angle. Then their bowsprit would push into your foremast shrouds (rigging/ladder) and hopefully get stuck there. At that point you could suppress the enemy's resistance on their forecastle by using the superior armament on your own quarterdeck. Then board over their bowsprit. In a pinch you could likewise just t-bone the enemy and climb out over your own bowsprit. If needed, the topmen could run out on the yards and lash the yardarms together. In the event the enemy tried to tack, you could also heave to right under their stern while they were motionless in the water, and let them drift down into you, being raked all the time. Then swarm in through the captain's quarters.

Yup, had that with Grand Canaria once..

American here, I lost it lol

When you think about it, it makes more sense than the word "carbine," which definitely is not a short car. 😀

Just like pantaloons, which are short pants.

Makes sense, as now the means of propulsion are below deck. And with the ability to lock doors and seal bulkhead they can't just lob grenades down on you.

Yeah, the big difference today is that you *can* actually control the ship or at least deprive control and wait for help from below decks. In the age of sail, not so much. They didn't have radios so help wasn't really too likely to show up and all the important workings of the ship are up top. Not to mention that an old school frigate can usually just tow a captured ship wherever it wanted. Some guys on a speed boat aren't going to be towing a modern container ship anywhere anytime soon. I do wonder if it was a different story where oar driven galleys where the big thing though.

Do you have nasty surprises for them like crowfeet, slippery slime, electro doorhandle... you know that serious home-alone stuff or is it just close the door and drink tea?

This brings back memories. In the 70's I was in the US Navy, and my ship (which shall remain nameless) was "taken over" by some special operations types during war games by landing on the helo deck and rushing up to the bridge. We simply dogged down the hatches and doors and secured them in some way (simply tying down the handles so they couldn't be opened from the outside). The Operations Officer (the senior officer not captured in the assault) took command from below decks because there's the emergency steering function, plus that's where the engines are, and breakers to shut off power to the superstructure. Of course the ship was not effective in a combat role until the varmints were removed, but neither had she been "captured". Of course it might have turned out differently if the bad guys could blast or cut their way in, but that might have been a bit much since it was just a game. So yeah, thanks for the memories!

@@dougearnest7590 Thats interesting. Never thought about it but it would make sense that boarding actions will still be carried out in modern naval warfare. My question is how they would do it? Wouldn’t they only attempt to board and take a ship after it has been pummeled by missiles first? Is their aim to take the senior officers as hostage but modern warfare wouldn't see enlisted men surrendering in that scenario. Would the boarders (would they be SEALs or Marines?) Be able to commandeer a ship even after it has been crtically damaged or at all?

To me they look dresses for some ridiculously cold winter. Whereas I am wearing shorts and short sleeves in Arizona with the A/C still on.

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One of drac's formats are throw questions at him and he fills hours solo. Pretty sure he just cleared his throat here.

ROFL Now I have a picture in my head of a cartoon of an Ironclad bain-marie, like they would have had in their newspapers of the time!

I remember a picture from the 90's of a USCG crewman jumping on board a boat they'd just stopped with a fire ax in his hand. Though it was more likely to open a door the crew had locked than to do combat with the crew.

That...was quite rare to get info like that...9 times out of 10, the signal flags, letters, and other important would be placed in a bag, or box. Weighed down heavily by Lead Weights, ready to be thrown out the captians window into the sea.

@@silentdragon1555 Correct. The Captain's going to face a court martial for losing his ship as soon as he's paroled, but as long as he displayed the necessary gallantry, he's only going to get convicted and dismissed or imprisoned if he does something stupid like forget to throw his sealed orders and the signal book overboard before striking.

@@ericfleming5522 some what true...If the ship is lost in combat, an investigation would occur to its loss. And if all the regulations that need to be followed, the captain and crew would be left off the hook. If foul play was found, or something didn't add up. Or a complete lack of captaincy, He would be court Martialled for said crimes. Very often. The captain and officers where let off if it was in time of war...otherwise, round house kicks would be issued.

@@silentdragon1555 Pretty much like the modern navy. Some things never do change....

@@ericfleming5522 don't fix what ain't broken...

If The Chieftan was on hand they could do a "my God, the ships on fire!"

This idea is the video I did not know I wanted.

Well, if hollywood has taught me anything - The British marines would politely line up to take on the single heroic American marine that boarded their ship first one at a time so he can incapacitate them with nothing more than the barest contact. Then, once this single heroic American marine has single-handedly killed and/or incapacitated half to three quarters or so of the British crew, a huge wave of Americans would swarm over the ship and the fight would be instantaneously over. This is definitely historically correct. Mel Gibson says so.

@@ColonelSandersLite LOL, I have had a bunch of rum, and then read this when too close to my sleeping child's bedroom, I had to stifle a laugh so I did not wake him up.

​@@ColonelSandersLite The only case of a movie i can think of with British marines from that era is Master and Commander and in the movie a marine accidentally shoots one of the main characters, trying to shoot an albatross (which is a big no no for any sensible sailor) and the Americans are replaced with the French from the book the movie is based on because Hollywood says you can't have Americans as bad guys

You know what, how US Marines and Royal Marines compare in various time periods would be a really interesting video.

True, but the monitors were the most numerous and most obvious thing for the RN to consider at the time. Warrior vs New Ironsides is a genuinely interesting match-up, Warrior vs Galena... let's just say I'd have to ask what Galena ever did to you to force it into that engagement? :)

@@Drachinifel oops, you're right. I guess I had learned that Galena had some sort of oversized gun for that kind of engagement, but now that I look at it, Warrior has 5x as many of an even bigger caliber. Galena still wouldn't have the problem of getting its only turret stopped up with wood.

Monitor introduced the revolutionary new screw propellor.

I would have never thought a Monitor vs Warrior engagement was a serious theroycrafting item just due to the fire power discrepancy. Some interesting info on Monitor however.

When it doubt, always rewatch Master and Commander.

@@ostrowulf This is wisdom :)

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Yes, like the Dutch naval landing by Michiel de Rayter at the Battle of Nyborg 1659. I know almost nothing about it, but it sounds interesting.

Drachinifel has a nice video on shore bombardment in WWII, though I guess you wanted older examples.

@@seneca983 I do but I will check that out as well

I am sorry to correct you, my good Sir, but actually in the Royal Navy of the time the ships crew was usually divided in two watches, port and starboard watch. This way it would be rather half than a third. Non the less, even more people milling around!

Those were the good old days.

That reminds me of the video of the US Coastguardsman leaping onto the semi-submersible drug smuggler. That was badass