Fascinating. My grandfather served on HMS Glory as a signaller, from August 1916 to October 1917. As far as I can tell from the logs, the Glory simply anchored and didn't budge, didn't fire a shot in anger for the whole of that period. I have a picture of the Glory from that period, most of the ship's company clustered around a boxing ring that had been set up on the deck.

Thanks for the video. This is a really interesting period, big changes to major elements like propulsion, armour. And the struggle for greater power in the naval world.

I enjoy your work and noticed that HMS Centurion got a mention in this video. I hope you have plans to do her in a future video. Smaller than most pre-Dreadnoughts, Centurion and her sister ship Barfleur, had interesting careers.

😊 love your work😊

I'm looking forwards to you getting to the Duncan class, all built as a response to what the RN heard about the Russians were building and presumed was being built, they utterly outclassed the Russian ships. The Canopus class are a handsome ship though and you've got lovely models :) Great video as always.

In the South Atlantic, Canopus’s chief engineer essentially went mad and falsely convinced everyone that her engines were crippled. This influenced Craddock’s decision to leave Canopus behind. The German armored cruisers outgunned Craddock’s ships, especially Monmouth which was a budget design. More importantly, Craddock’s ships were crewed by reservists who hadn’t had time to become effective while Von Spee’s ships were crewed by regulars.

Wow, there’s a guy out there doing a history of pre-dreadnought battleships?! I’ve never subscribed so fast I don’t think, this is right up my street.

The Canopu s class were also very fast for their day and IIRC they had some Krupp's armour on their main belt which allowed it to be thin but still roughly equivalent to the main belt on the Majestics.

Very nice overview. Thank you!

They were a very elegant looking and simple design, lovely vid about these beautiful ladies.

The Majestics and the preceeding Royal Sovereigns really broke the mold for RN BB construction as before it had been largely one or two off types of ships with only the older Admiral class being ones built in large numbers, but the Majestics were really the ones that, as you said, set the tone for RN naval design.

Great video! Amazing history of HMS Canopus

fantastic as alway. keep up the great work

These videos and the ones regarding the Majestics are great! Keep up the good work

Looking forward to this. Please feel free to use your models to point out features on the ships that are not shown very well on the few pictures available.

Very interesting class history, i didnt know they were built to counter the Fuji class battleships.

Thankyou😮 ..... Superb work again sir

I don't know anything about this class of battleship. I like that your going a little deeper in to the pre dreadnoughts. Most navel history goes Warrior to Majestic to dreadnought skipping everything in-between

Are you going to do the Flower Class?

Very nice vid!! Keep it up buddy!

A majestic recovery from Covid it would appear ... Great Work ✅

Looking forward to the Oceanic videos! Thank you for making these!

It took decades to get larger than The Great Eastern, and another decade and change still to bring back some safety features from her too boot.

Oceanic of 1899 was such a beautiful ship !

New video drop, woowho! Hope you're feeling better.

Interesting video but I noticed a bit of a gaff. When you're talking about the power rating of he engines at 1:20 you say they had a rating of 33 horsepower. Little low isn't it?😁

your pretty much doing what I wanted to do a few years ago with regular uploads and all lol, your content is super high quality and you speak pretty well, keep on going man.

Amazing photos. It's incredible what the inside of the ships looked like.

I believe this ship is mentioned as “the old Majestic” by a dining room steward in the 1958 film “A Night to Remember.” Thank you for these videos!

I really appreciate your models - they do a good job of demonstrating the relative size of the ships. I’d enjoy seeing a “behind the scenes” view of how you make these.

The great technological leaps of the 19th century are amazing. I am sure that these ships carried more than a few passengers born in the final years of the 18th century who had seen in their childhood wooden sailing ships which were (superficially at least) little different to those built a century or more before.

I appreciate your approach - and your coverage of both liners and warships. Keep up the good work!

Keep up the videos man.

Keep the good work up man review some other pre dreadnoughts

Sand will help preserve her in situ for years to come. I'm glad she's protected in that regard.

First also your deserve way more subscribers

Lost me at 'the HMS Mars'...

Nice presentation. Your choice of the 1812 Overture as background music is delightful.

Very fine presentation, my friend. :) You hit the nail on head, speaking as a Western ship nerd, generally our fascination with shipswrecks usually starts under British hegemony.

Brilliant

For HMS don't pre fix with "the " dude, it's saying 'the her majesty's ship' which is a bit odd, nice little guide though

Never "the HMS Jupiter" but rather " the Jupiter" or "HMS Jupiter".Keep up the good work. 😊

😊 fascinating ... interesting waterline models too😊. Waiting on the HMS Canopus

It's incridible how numerous the Majestic class is! And the fact many more pre-dreadnoughts followed them.