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Yi Sun-sin: history’s greatest admiral
https://www.military-history.org/feature/early-modern/yi-sun-sin-historys-greatest-admiral.htm
April 12, 2019
Admiral Yi Sun-sin (1545-1598) fought 23 battles against the Japanese invaders of Korea between 1592 and 1598, and won every one of them without losing a single ship.
In 14 of these battles, moreover, not a single Japanese ship survived.
Yet Yi Sun-sin was an amateur: he had no formal naval training of any kind.
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The Royal Navy’s Darkest Day: Medway 1667
https://www.military-history.org/feature/the-royal-navys-darkest-day-medway-1667.htm
June 14, 2017
Patrick Boniface recalls one of the most humiliating defeats in the history of Britain’s Royal Navy.
The June 1667 raid on the Medway by a Dutch flotilla
would go down in history as one of the worst disasters to befall the Royal Navy.
The Dutch sailed right up the River Medway and attacked the British fleet at their anchorages at Chatham.
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7 Types of Ships that Pirates Used to Wreak Havoc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_aoiDzF7Uk
WarsofTheWorld
29 Jan 2021
Pirate ships could come in all shapes and sizes. There were big ones and small ones, sail ships and rowing boats. Some were bristling with cannons; others made do with scary fellas wielding cutlasses and grappling hooks. But what type of vessels were most popular among pirates, and how were they used? Let’s find out!
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0:00 Introduction
2:15 Sloops
4:15 Schooners
5:07 Brigantines
6:48 Square-rigged Ships
8:14 The Dutch Fluyt
10:09 Galleons
13:12 Frigates |
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Spanish warship Destructor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_warship_Destructor
19th-century Spanish warship. She was a fast ocean-going torpedo gunboat and the main precursor of the destroyer type of vessel.
Destructor was the first warship classified as a "destroyer" at the time of her commissioning in 1887.
A new type of enlarged and fast torpedo boat, capable of escorting larger ships on long voyages and also able to attack enemy battleships with torpedoes as part of a fleet action.
Destructor is widely considered the first torpedo-boat destroyer ever built
at the J&G Thomson Clydebank shipyard.
In terms of gunnery, speed and dimensions,
Destructor is thought to have influenced the design and concept of later destroyers developed by the British Royal Navy. |
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The Dupuy de Lôme looks a bit strange Is that long protrusion the bow or stern? |
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Dupuy de Lôme
according to wikipedia:
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Her long, cut-away bow resembled a spur-type ram, but was not armoured. It was reduced in profile to reduce blast damage when the forward guns were fired.
https://www.navypedia.org/ships/france/fr_cr_dupuy_de_lome.htm
a very marked snout or plough bow
Ram bows were still a thing back then,
before they later realised with quick firing guns & whitehead Torpedoes
no one was getting close enough to ram anymore,
without getting shot up or holed by Torpedoes first.
Effective Gunnery Ranges were increasing, especially with
the introduction of later Director Firing Control and accurate range finders.
Battleships had increased secondary batteries to deal with Destroyers
or Torpedo Boats.
Cruisers probably got the attention of the main battery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_ram
https://cimsec.org/ram-19th-century-naval-warfare-dead-end/
some late ram bow ships
HMS Anson (1886) Battleship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Anson_(1886)
completed with a ram bow
HMS Polyphemus (1881)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Polyphemus_(1881)
Royal Navy torpedo ram,
protected torpedo boat, the ram was provided very much as secondary armament.
USS Katahdin (1893)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Katahdin_(1893)
harbor-defense ram
Battle of Lissa (1866)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lissa_(1866)
one of the last battles to involve deliberate ramming.
Battle of Iquique (1879)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iquique
ramming as a tactic used
What also looks strange to modern eyes.
French ships of this period also had Tumblehome hulls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblehome
Tumblehome is a term describing a hull which grows narrower above
the waterline than its beam.
(hull narrows rising to the upper deck,
The sloping armour on Tanks concept of WW2, come from this idea
which in turn, dates back to at least, the US Civil War River Ironclads)
The opposite of tumblehome is flare
(which is the more modern hull design apart from some recent
stealth ships, seakeeping ability loses out to a low radar return)
Tumblehome was common on wooden warships for centuries.
France used it reduce the weight of the superstructure and
increase seaworthiness by creating greater freeboard
(deck height above the waterline)
The Tumblehome design was excellent for long distance navigation,
but could be dangerously unstable when watertight integrity was breached
as found in the Battle of Tsushima
Battle of Tsushima
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tsushima
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borodino-class_battleship
3 of the 4 Borodino Class with tumblehome hulls were lost
at Tsushima and the other captured.
This resulted in the discontinuing of the tumblehome design
in future warships for most of the 20th century.
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RMS Empress of Ireland 1914
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Empress_of_Ireland
sunk in foggy conditions by a collision with the
SS Storstad, a Norwegian collier with a large loss of life
The Empress of Ireland watertight doors had to be closed manually
so were still open, along with open portholes and the ship flooded and rapidly sank.
As was noted at the subsequent inquiry,
"If the testimony of both captains were to be believed, the collision happened as both vessels were stationary with their engines stopped".
The disaster did lead to a change in the design of ships' bows.
The sinking of Empress of Ireland proved that the reverse slanting, inverted or "tumblehome" prow so common at the time, was deadly in the event of a ship-to-ship collision because it caused massive damage below the waterline, effectively acting as a ram which would smash through an unarmoured hull without difficulty
(especially if the ship was steaming at some speed).
As a result of the disaster, naval designers began to employ the raked bow with the top of the prow forward (and still generally used today.)
This ensured that the energy of any collision would be minimised beneath the surface and only the parts of the bow above the waterline would be affected. |
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The SMS Emden - German WW1 Raider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG_QP9z3fyg
The History Chap
2 Aug 2022
runtime 18:59
Timecodes on youtube Page
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:40 SMS Emden
2:10 World War 1
3:29 Von Muller's Plan
4:50 Attack on Madras
6:57 Hunt for the Emden
7:45 Battle of Penang 1914
10:00 Battle of Cocos Island 1914
13:45 The Ayesha Adventure
16:45 SMS Emden
The Story of the SMS Emden - The Kaiser's WW1 Raider
At the start of WW1 a lone German cruiser, the SMS Emden, went on a one-ship mission to disrupt allied supplies in the Indian Ocean.
During a 3 month reign of terror, the Emden (nicknamed "The Swan of the East") sank 20 allied merchant ships and destroyed 125 million gallons of Kerosene oil when she boldly attacked the port of Madras in India.
Keeping one step of a growing fleet of allied ships trying to hunt her, the Emden doubled back and attacked the port of Penang in Malaysia (Malaya).
During the battle of Penang in 1914, the Emden proceeded to sink a Russian cruiser and a French torpedo boat.
The Emden's trail of destruction was also marked by the chivalrous conduct of her captain, Karl Von Muller and his crew.
Eventually, the Emden's luck ran out.
On the 9th November 1914 the German cruiser attacked the wireless station at the remote Cocos Islands but were surprised by HMAS Sydney from the Australian navy.
In the ensuing battle of Cocos Island, the Emden was so badly damaged that Kapitan Von Muller beached her on a coral reef.
However, the story didn't end there.
A party of sailors were stranded on the island where they had destroyed the radio station and rather than surrender they launched a daring escape in a dilapidated old schooner - The Ayesha.
The adventure of the Ayesha took the crew across the Indian Ocean to Arabia, where after fighting Bedouin tribesman they were able to eventually make it back to Germany. |
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