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Sir Francis Drake singeing Spanish beards and playing bowls - fire ships in Calais harbour - Spanish galleons shipwrecked off the coast of Ireland. It has always been told as a story of English heroism and skill, beating off the greatest armada ever assembled, helped a little by the weather. Now marine archaeology and new documentary evidence are telling a new tale - not so much of English flair and skill, more a case of Spanish ill-preparedness for a naval battle and incompetence. It may have been an armada, but the evidence suggests the Spanish simply never intended to fight at sea.
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"He blew 🌬️with His winds🌪️ and they were scattered."
(Wording on a contemporary commemorative medal.)
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"the ships logs give us a record of the weather conditions, and using this we can create maps of what the weather was like, which in turn tell us what the weather conditions we like ".
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They had a whole team of people, modern equipment and measuring, they were on stable land and not under any fire or pressure whatsoever and they still couldn't hit a wall straight in front of them with a cannon ball. The Elizabethan sailors would be tearing their hair out watching the 'experts' of our era. The Elizabethan sailors were using this extremely heavy, dangerous equipment, on wooden ships, on waves, in choppy weather, trying to hit a moving target that was bobbing up and down and firing back at them. They did well to land the shots that they did.
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Abt 1/2 way point, the oak plank target the gun is tested on shown to be 1 plank thick; the sp. Ships, especially the large galleys- those hull would have been multiple layers of planking thick-
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Could we get Drake, s type of ships to defend our country in 2024?
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I'm a descendant of one of the Spanish sailors that washed up, on the shore, the way my great grandfather who was quite proud of his Irish heritage tells it, the locals where willing to hide them because they hated the English to, and over time some of the Spanish sailors and Irish women had children together, and their children where called Black Irish, because they were probably the only Irish with darker skin
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Quite interesting, particularly the portion dealing with the currents that led the Armada onto the rocks of western Ireland and Scotland. As for the gunnery portion, a crucial bit of information was ignored here. The Spanish had cannon, and quite effective they might have been, however the English used cannon trucks with four wheels where the Spanish did not. This allowed the English, who carried few or no soldiers aboard, to use gun crews to simply pull back the cannon to reload, while the Spanish were compelled to use their soldiers to drag back the carriages after each shot, then reload, then send the soldiers back to muster on the decks. Consequently, the English could maintain a rate of fire of four to six more shots to each Spanish shot, which mattered far more then the effectiveness of any single weapon such as a culverin. Had the Spanish been able to employ the huge guns typically carried low in the stern, they might have devastated any English ship, but the English of course gave them no opportunity for such close action. In any case, an interesting video.
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This narrator is excellent
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Excellent doco, really good piece of work.
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The gun isnt stable enough . The powder ignites . The gun jumps before the ball gets all the way out the barrel.
Secure the gun better and you'll have better results
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Almost worthless if you don't already know a bit about what happened. The glaring omission is how it ended without ever saying what happened to the Spanish who got shipwrecked. Did they live? The documentary says ships were torn to pieces on rocks, but does that mean that few or no Spanish made it ashore?
Also, as an engineer who understands that computer model results are wholly dependent on the assumptions you put into it, I'm more than skeptical of the results.
Topping it all off is how they get viewers excited to see them fire a canon at a large wooden target, but then can't ever hit the thing. Why include the footage in the first place? Can you imagine a mainstream and high budget production just giving up and not ever hitting the actual target?
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Love this stuff 👍
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They have a 'ballistics expert' and they haven't a clue. With the cannon horizontal at zero elevation the shot can only go down, it's basic Newtonian physics yet these people don't understand that. all arts graduates no doubt. lol.
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The warning beacons could send a warning from plymouth to carlisle in about 40mins,thats nearly 400 miles.impressive.
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Great portrayal. Interesting and informative.
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Something absolutely historical that we should remember. In 1588 , the French refused access to their ports to the invincible armada which forced the Spanish fleet to make the whole journey without being able to resupply before, during and after the battle. The surviving Spanish ships had to bypass Britain and some of them sank in Ireland.
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That Gulf Stream is one of the most powerful currents on Earth
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Crazy story. Glad to watch. Thanks🎉
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Could you add one more thing? When the Spanish Armada tried to attack England, many unwilling to fight Portuguese sailors were among those Spanish and Portuguese ships. Philip II had taken the Portuguese court by inheriting his father's Spanish Empire in 1556 and succeeded to the Portuguese throne in 1580 following a dynastic crisis.
The death (August 1578) without heirs of his nephew, King Sebastian of Portugal, opened up the prospect of Philip's succession to Portugal. He had to conquer (1580) what he regarded as his just, hereditary rights by force, but the rest of Europe was alarmed at this growth in Spanish power.
The reason why Portuguese sailors were unwilling to fight against the English was because of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance. It is the world's oldest alliance in known history, established by the Treaty of Windsor in 1386. The Portuguese and English alliance was signed on May 19, 1386, between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Portugal, that remains until today and future.
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@arthuroldale-ki2ev
2 months ago
I don`t think Drake would want that lot on one of his ships as a gun crew, I thought I must be watching Monty Python.
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