The Boats That Built Britain - The Matthew

The incredible story of the Matthew. In 1497, explorer John Cabot left Bristol on this little ship and 3,000 miles later landed in what we now know is North America. His discovery would change Britain and the world forever. Sailor and writer Tom Cunliffe sails the Matthew for himself and finds out just how this incredible little boat made a journey into the unknown and came back to tell the story.

[@annteve]

Absolutely glorious series. Well written and narrated.

[@CaptainJazz262]

Love this! also hilarious that you guys licensed the pirates of the Caribbean music for the show

[@AdmiraltyShipModels]

We're in Bristol and we like to see the Matthew sailing up and down the Bristol harbour. How interesting its story. Thanks for the series!

[@MegaMeerkat3000]

Another amazing video!!!

[@laperted56]

As pointed earlier, the Matthew is a carrack (nau in Portuguese). Besides having only lateen sails, the caravel also has a narrower beam, shallower draft and lower fo’c’s’le than the carrack. In fact, the Matthew is a small carrack. BTW, Caboto’s first name in Italian is Giovani not Juan.

[@jaquemate7254]

Giovanni Caboto was italian, from Genova. England could not have a settlement till more than one century later.

[@jimk8592]

6:32, all these books... All this knowledge and history facts...

[@makelikeatree1696]

I know the main shipwright that built the Matthew. His boat yard is just around the corner from where it is moored, and he does a lot of maintenance on it. It’s worth going to Bristol to see. Pop into Rolt’s Boatyard and say hi to Mark.

[@ms-lazuli7435]

It would be fun to come and take a ride on a frigate of 12-pdr... French 😜 You make good videos, I like it, thanks.

[@alexisleon23]

The Matthew looks like a copy of caravel. The Portuguese made it first. It had a crew of 17.

[@livingladolcevita7318]

what is the intro music?

[@BoatYardBuilds]

Elgar. 😊

[@livingladolcevita7318]

sorry to be a pain but could you be more specific

[@Max-ms7uo]

@@livingladolcevita7318 A celtic symphony by Sir Granville Bantock, 4th movement: Allegro con spirito

[@ferrokkkk7032]

So it’s the somehow also the fault of the ‘hardline’ Ottoman’s 😂😂

[@thearchibaldtuttle]

5 flat earther disliked the video

[@thomaswilkinson3241]

Archibald Tuttle lol, seems so.

[@eifionjones559]

lol

[@RealityIsTheNow]

Great vids. North America was discovered by Vikings though...which people really should be aware of by now.

[@graemesydney38]

North America was discovered by the American Natives...which people really should be aware of by now.

[@RealityIsTheNow]

@@graemesydney38 maybe you don't know what native means? People who immigrated from Asia across the land bridge were of course of Asian descent. But they themselves weren't natives of Asia. Actually nobody's really a native unless they're from africa. The rift valley specifically.

[@graemesydney38]

@@RealityIsTheNow Native = www.lexico.com/definition/native Native American = dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/native-american What I wrote was correct and accurate use of the English language. So obviously I know what I'm talking about. Do you know what you are talking about?

[@RealityIsTheNow]

@@graemesydney38 LOL your own links verified what I just said you idiot. You should have read it. According to your own link I'm a native. Though the first Nations types in the rest of Canada would probably disagree.

[@cambs0181]

And Columbus knew this, he was trying to go south because he was avoiding the North land. And he never found mainland America And he was never talked about in the US until Italian immigrants started to want to justify their presence. And Henry 8th never colonized America And the pilgrims left because there was too much religious tolerance and not persecution to them. And they never ate turkey at the first Thanksgiving, they ate eels. And the British army were never called Redcoats And Paul Rivera never galloped around screaming The British are coming! And 1776 wasn't about taxation, it was about the restrictions on expansion on land.

[@mboyer68]

There's a documentary filmed by a man in black and white on the last big sailing cargo ship that went back and forth from northern Europe to Chile every 90 days. His film is the only film of this kind of voyage on this kind of vessel. I'll try to find it...it's absolutely amazing! Narrated by the man who filmed it, who became a fairly famous captain after that chapter in his life. Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6XYhX6epryNqdE

[@poche660]

Pleasure to watch. They always end too soon.

[@red55chief]

Discovered the Americas? Ever heard of the Vikings?

[@kevinmoss4392]

really enjoying these programmes, how did I miss them first time around.

[@chiefkikyerass7188]

The Vikings discovered Nova Scotia ( North America) 200 yrs before Britain did..,try again

[@simonblandford6474]

As a weekday volunteer guide on the Matthew it was wonderful to see this well structured summary of her role in early British maritime history. I will be recommending this lovely documentary to visitors and school parties visiting us. Thank you Tom!

[@guineapigzed]

Starts at 1:10

[@fonhollohan2908]

There is also a replica of the Matthew in Bonavista, which is in Bonavista Bay Newfoundland, which by the way is where John Cabot discovered North America. I was actually born in Bonavista and was raised in a small fishing community called Summerville, in Bonavista Bay as well.

[@mikewalrus4763]

The "Matthew" was not a Caravella (neither Redonda ~ square rigged, not Lateena ~ lateen sails only) she was in fact a Carrack, sometimes know as a Nao (which basically means ship). columbus took two caravellas ~ the Pinta and the Nina (the painted one and the child) and the carrack Santa Maria (Saint Mary) as his flagship because she were bigger!

[@leilawilcox4191]

soooooooooo cool

[@servicarrider]

Do not disturb...learning in progress.

[@bobeden5027]

She looks like the Duyfken, hey?

[@gowdsake7103]

Crowded in ? less than 20 on a 70 foot boat, guess you were never on a Navy ship then !

[@eifionjones559]

I think that there are few navy ships around these days made of wood , powered by sail and carrying their food live on the hoof. You are obviously no seaman

[@mikewalrus4763]

@@eifionjones559 I doubt if you have been, not a naval seaman anyway - Until a short tme ago minesweepers where built of wood (wood don't trip magnetic mines, steel or iron does) as for powered by sail? Some are, maybe not in the Royal Navy these days but in other navies! As for size, yep there have been Naval ships that were crewed by that many - remeber what a naval ship is designed to do . . . . . you need replacement sailors just in case you lose a few!

[@eifionjones559]

@@mikewalrus4763 Chief engineer merchant navy including time on deep sea salvage tugs and in my younger days RNR officer. So please don't come the old salt with me

[@nonegone7170]

@@mikewalrus4763 Comparing a wooden minesweeper to an age of sail ship requires some incredible mental gymnastics.

[@Nookumwoogy]

"John Cabot" sounds British... you mean the Italian Giovanni Caboto. How does it feel to be perpetuating the myth of British exceptionalism?

[@PaulBKal]

Did you not watch the video. 8:40 Cabot’s history is told. He was Venetian. But it was the British who funded his journey and formed his crew and provided his crew and he left from Britain. He was ‘British’ in the same way another ‘Italian’ Christopher Columbus was Spanish.

[@Nookumwoogy]

@@PaulBKal Your 'history' is false again. Christopher Columbus, or should I say, Cristoffa Corombo, wasn't Spanish, he was from Genoa (now Italty).

[@PillSharks]

PaulBKal he probably also left from the village of Pill in Somerset, there’s no way the river could have been navigated on one tide from Bristol so it was common practice to do it over the course of a few tides, the last safe place would have been Hung Road in Pill where they would have no doubt came ashore and enjoyed a drink and the local girls before heading off! Cabots Pilot was also a Pill man called James Ray and up until a few decades ago we still had a bristol Pilot who was a direct descendant of James Ray, just like me!! The replica of the Matthew was also helped to be built by a few Pill men in the 90s, when it did it’s voyage to Canada many Pill people went because of the history, I stayed at home and had parties in my parents house and that’s how I met the wife, so whenever we see the Matthew I always tell my boys without that little ship, you wouldn’t be born!!

[@garyhewitt489]

"British exceptionalism". I like the sound of that, thank you, I will take that from you and exploit it for my profit. So much better than "The extraordinary British" which sounds rather bombastic. Exceptionalism sounds so much more acceptable, a very good description for an extraordinary nation which has created the modern world with its inventiveness, energy, and protestant work ethic.

[@Nookumwoogy]

@@garyhewitt489 150-years of recession since it was unable to exploit the resources and people from other countries.