Summary of A Titan of Pre-Industry: The Ship of the Line

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The video discusses the HMS Victory, a ship of the line from the Napoleonic Wars, and compares it to the largest Napoleonic land battle, the Battle of Borodino. The video points out that the HMS Victory carried a quarter of the artillery at Waterloo, and was larger and more powerful than the largest buildings and the strongest armies of its era.

• 00:00:00 HMS Victory was a first-rate ship of the line in the British Royal Navy, and she played host to a crew of just over eight hundred men. She saw action in the American War of Independence, the European theater of World War II, and the Napoleonic Wars.
• 00:05:00 The video discusses the size and cost of HMS Victory, one of the largest and most expensive warships of its time. At two hundred and thirty-four feet high and four thousand tons, Victory was significantly taller than any other ships of its time. When compared to other structures of the time, such as Portsmouth Cathedral, HMS Victory becomes much larger in the mind. It cost the government sixty-three thousand one hundred and seventy-six pounds to build, which represented point zero seven percent of the entire GDP and one percent of the nation's defense budget at the time.
• 00:10:00 The largest ship ever built was the HMS Ark Royal, which was commissioned in 1985 and cost about point one zero seven percent of GDP. The largest ship in the world today is the USS Gerald Ford, which was built at a cost of pointzero six seven percent of GDP. The HMS Victory, which was flagship of the Royal Navy in 1801, had a crew of just over eight hundred men and represented two and a half percent of the entire population of Portsmouth. The guns on these ships were massive and capable of destroying entire enemy ships.
• 00:15:00 This video compares the armaments of HMS Victory, a ship of the line from the Napoleonic Wars, with the largest Napoleonic land battle, the Battle of Borodino. The video points out that HMS Victory carried a quarter of the artillery at Waterloo, and was larger and more powerful than the largest buildings and the strongest armies of its era.