Spanish Galleon 2 Day Voyage. A replica 16th Century Spanish Galleon.

[@miguelcebrianalvarez498]

Gracias Londres por ese buen recibimiento del galeón español y que disfrute la gente viendolo.🇪🇦🙋🇬🇧👍

[@jaxric8518]

The life of a sailor was the hardest in the past. Life expectancy was even shorter than that of a miner or a soldier. In the age of discovery and exploration, ships were literally floating tombs from which more than half of the crews were expected never to return. A unique breed of man. Thanks for sharing.

[@cholas00]

Si en esa expedición partieron 250 hombres en dos barcos, sólo volvieron 18 y una sola nave. Magallanes murió en la travesía y Juan Sebastián El Cano fue realmente quien hizo la primera vuelta al mundo

[@KingsleyGallagher]

Well done, brilliant ⛵️⛵️⛵️

[@explorepitlochry5292]

Thank you, I am so pleased you enjoyed it. I did too!

[@JuanaGarcíaherrera-g6h]

Impresionante galeón hecho en Punta Umbría, huy, Andalucía, España. Yo ❤ España

[@JamesRattray]

Yes it is very impressive. I also salute Spain for producing this galleon to remind us all of our history, by this I mean world human history and evolution with the advent of sea travel that Spain and Portugal played such a big part in its innovation. Here in the UK we do not have such a vessel to commemorate this period of from the 17th century

[@perrogorilagorilero6264]

Gracias por el recibimiento, Reino Unido es un bonito lugar donde llevarlo y saben valorarlo. El video muy bueno, se nota que sabes del mar.

[@nagjrcjasonbower]

Excellent!!!!

[@edcook9747]

Captivating! Loved the narration. The visuals made you imagine how it must have been and how difficult. This was an escape!

[@JamesRattray]

Brilliant, thank you. I really enjoyed creating that of my experience on board. It was special. I enjoy making videos of my experiences, a moment in time as I see it. Best wishes and thank you for commenting, you have made one old man very happy.

[@craigmcdonald2110]

Thank-you James really interested I hope you have a lovely time on board.

[@explorepitlochry5292]

I thoroughly enjoyed it, thank you. It was very special.

[@ThamesShips]

Excellent and interesting video. 👍

[@explorepitlochry5292]

Thank you, I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know. It was very special trip for me.

[@ThamesShips]

@@explorepitlochry5292 👍

[@zalacainbilbao]

Very nice video. Although it wasn't Magellan that circumnavigated the world, he died on the way, it was Juan Sebastian ElCano.

[@JamesRattray]

I agree, technically Magellan didn't make it round. I suppose he gets the credit as he put together the flotilla of ships. Not many of the crew made it back if I remember correctly and was it only one ship? It was very tough time, more dangerous in its way than space travel, at least most astronauts get back.

[@cangrejitamora]

Muy bonito e interesante reportaje, que retrotrae a otra época.

[@explorepitlochry5292]

Yes, travelling on the special ship was about going back in time. Thank you for commenting

[@Babushkaya]

Yo viajé en el Andalucía el pasado año desde Delfzijl, en los Países Bajos a Honfleur, ¡¡fue toda una experiencia!! Aunque no desplegaron velas porque no había suficiente viento. ¡Qué suerte haber podido desplegarlas! Es increíble el enorme trabajo de fuerza y coordinación que requiere cualquier maniobra. Preciosos acantilados de Dover.

[@JamesRattray]

Yes we were very lucky to see the sails being set, even more so that I learnt that not every passenger is able to experience this. Thank you for commenting and letting us know your experience.

[@aticusgreen]

Muy bueno el video. Gracias.

[@JamesRattray]

Gracias.

[@joebombero1]

Loved it! Watching from the Philippines!

[@JamesRattray]

Brilliant, it was lovely meeting the Philipino couple on the boat, they were great, relating their interest on the shared history. Thank you for commenting.

[@Sphinxgamingworld9942]

¡Viva las Filipinas 🇵🇭!

[@gladivsvii7120]

Thank you. Brilliant documentary.

[@explorepitlochry5292]

Thank you.

[@stevenr2463]

Amazing!

[@viquiben4919]

That was amazing. Thank you ❤

[@serinusgranainobolborhynch868]

Excellent narration!

[@JamesRattray]

Thank you.

[@IlonaHauch-fy7dr]

Toll zu sehen die spain galeon historical in London 👌☺️

[@darylwilliams7883]

This would be awesome.

[@boyddubard4197]

A friend of mine from home, el Puerto de Santa Maria, is one of this ship’s Skippers. His sister is married to a retired RAF Pilot who had been one of the Queen’s Pilots.The EEC is great, too bad you guys left.

[@dixiefallas7799]

Nice video. I watched her depart Whitby and drove to Scarborough to see her arrival there. Brilliant ship.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@JamesRattray]

Thank you. Yes indeed a very special ship.

[@andyrichmond1858]

Yea thanks buddy from Brisbane, Australia. Awesome and well shot. Shiver me timbers!!

[@WLDB]

Well done. Thanks.

[@JamesRattray]

Thank you, it was really enjoyable. I see it is now in the heart of London. I would have fancied doing that trip too, seeing the Thames and where the East Indiamen went.

[@JamesRattray]

I really enjoyed the trip as you saw in the video, I would have loved to travel up the Thames too the route of the old East Indiamen. I wonder if this is possible if another vessel/boat? I say this, as being out at sea had its own merits, where as up the Thames there is no sea experience or feel. If you fancy a trip, I suggest you keep a look out to see if it comes back next year. I have put a couple of links in text below the video, one to the organisation that runs the Galleon, the second to where you can book a passage. Thanks for commenting.

[@K2shadowfax]

Excellent stuff...thanks for sharing! Whilst watching, I could only imagine what life aboard would have been like during c.1600-1700+ especially on those trans-oceanic voyages. Would also be interested to learn more about your ancestor's adventures - from cabin boy to Captain of an East Indiaman! Here's 3 cheers and 1 cheer more, from very far away!

[@JamesRattray]

Thank you. His log book when he was Captain is in the British Library, one of my targets it to obtain a full copy of his log and to create a video together describing his voyage from London to India, he may have gone on to China, I will need to read the log and back to London. I look forward to doing this and I will certainly post it on You Tube. Thank you for making contact, from close by to far away best wishes.

[@andymcgeechan8318]

What a superbly made travelogue, with a great family connection to that age of sail. I did see the Andalucía in St Katherines dock but the ques where far too long for me, so finding this a few days later comes a real bonus, thank you James.

[@JamesRattray]

I am delighted you enjoyed it. It was very special trip, a trip I never imagined I could do. It was brilliant being able to record and share the experience too. Thank you for commenting.

[@martiniv8924]

Excellent video 👌🏻😎🇬🇧🇪🇸

[@JosemanuelDominguezpriet-ht4oc]

Buen galeon por los mares y oceanos .😮😮😮❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@cal9112]

Amazing Spa ush crew

[@bradwiebelhaus7065]

Great video.

[@JamesRattray]

Thank you.

[@cherylmillard2067]

Rope is unemployed cordage. In other words, when it is in a coil and has not been assigned a job, it is just a rope. On the other hand, when you prepare a rope for a specific task, it becomes employed and is a line. The line is labeled by the job it performs; for example, anchor line, dock line, fender line, etc Source: boating with dawsons

[@JamesRattray]

Very good, never thought of it that way. Thank you

[@talos1689]

En la expedición de Magallanes /Elcano partieron 250 y cinco naves,volvieron 18 y una nave que se rompía por todos lados....

[@explorepitlochry5292]

Yes, an incredible loss of life in those days. While we have a ship replicating these early ships, it is never the same as the time these incredible sailors sailed them. These early sailors are the ones who opened up the world we have today. We salute them.

[@flounder2283]

Sailors are renowned for being very clean and especilly neat and tidy. All waste went overboard and the the ship would have been kept (scrubbed) spotless daily, I don't think it would have been smelly and horrid.

[@JamesRattray]

It is an interesting point you make. These ships were small, especially compared to today. They carried huge numbers of people, what did I say 4.5m square of space per passenger. Some accounts I have read talk about the stench in the bilges. I know when I was at sea, the bilge water in the engine room was some of the foulest water, as everything just accumulated there. Thank you for commenting and highlighting this point. I hasten to add, I am no expert of course. All views welcome.

[@DavidDougan-vs5gm]

Great video thank you from an ex merchant seaman 22:31

[@francisco-pk5rt]

No es un galeón, es más pequeño, es una NAO, servia para cargar provisiones y transportarlas de un lugar a otro. Saludos

[@explorepitlochry5292]

These early ships were small, it certainly helps to get a better understanding of this time in our planet's history. Thank you for sharing this with us.

[@Clases_Arte]

Si es un galeón

[@Babushkaya]

No tienes ni idea. Es un galeón.

[@ihsxps5424]

Hola. Puedes decirme en qué fuente se catalogan naos ( nave) de timón manual de entre 500 y 2000t para Atlántico , Pacífico y navegación instrumental? Estoy interesado y no encuentro la fuente. Yo pensaba que el galeón procedía de la galera y no de las minúsculas naves ...gracias anticipadas.

[@ihsxps5424]

Increible descripción y narración.

[@JamesRattray]

Thank you very much, for me it was a journey looking at the past. It was very special, so pleased Spain has a vessel such as this. I don't believe Britain is mature enough a nation to commemorate the past in this way.

[@GWAYGWAY1]

Have we in UK got any equivalent sailing ship replicas?

[@explorepitlochry5292]

No we don't. It's a great potty. We currently spend our time knocking anything the UK did in the past. It's distorting history to fit the modern rhetoric.

[@MrSychnant]

14.42 Teenagers always need to check their social media 🙂

[@explorepitlochry5292]

I left that in, as I talked about modern times and I thought the young lady looking at her phone reflected today. Thank you for commenting.

[@leandabee]

😅 yes, I noticed that 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@pixie706]

So how did they manage pre engines. Lots of engine less tugs. ??

[@JamesRattray]

If you are talking about coming along side the quay, from what I can gather there would have been men in rowing boats pulling these large sailing vessels upriver into ports and quays. Google tells me "In harbor, a sailing ship stood at anchor, unless it needed to be loaded or unloaded at a dock or pier, in which case it might be warped alongside or towed by a tug. Warping involved using a long rope (the warp) between the ship and a fixed point on the shore."

[@jesusruedasanchez8246]

Why galleon ... ? . That´s write "Galeón" .

[@JamesRattray]

It reflects my in ability with a key board not being able to put the accent points above the letters, also I think I am right, in the English media is is referred to as Galleon. "Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships developed in Spain and Portugal and first used as armed cargo carriers by Europeans from the 16th to 18th...." Is your spelling Spanish?

[@AlejandroVazquez-kl4sy]

In english they're called galleons and James is english hence he calls it galleon. London is London but we call it Londres.

[@robertharris7027]

Obviously the passage was mostly done under engine. A little sad, I would like to have watched a trip under sail.

[@JamesRattray]

I didn't know what to expect. The blurb I read said it could take a crew of forty. At the time, 16th century, these ships I believe would have had about 100 people to sail her over the three watches, presumably for ever trimming and setting sails. The crew when I travel was twenty, so certainly not enough people to sail it properly. We saw that Swedish sailing ship going the other way down the channel into the wind, also under power of its engines. So one has to presume these ships in this 21st century era all have motors to drive them. It also is a museum ship, so its prime purpose is to travel to different ports to show people 16th century sailing ship. At least that is my rational of it all. Having said that, it was still very very special, as the crew did put up two sails and dropped , and later, hoisted back up the main sail, as we came in to Gravesend. It was a real privilege sailing with her and spending 48 hours with this her marvelous crew. Thank you for commenting.

[@szaki]

Diesel engines on a 16th century sailing ship? Cheating! 😒😒

[@JamesRattray]

I would call it sensible, it certainly doesn't to be blown on a lee shore. A crew of twenty, when there would have been in the region of one hundred crew in the 16th century. It was a great experience never the less.

[@donbuethorn1618]

Water heater, cute girls, electric lights, GPS, good food , ??

[@JamesRattray]

What more can you ask for?

[@jamesmoore9511]

Let's not short the Vikings on being the first to North America - plus it had inhabitants already, as did Australia and Britain in the time of the Romans.

[@spymaine89]

false , sea trading happened 6000 years prior. 21st century research. ''educate yourself ''.........

[@JamesRattray]

Please give us more details, as to what you are referring to. It is always good to learn.

[@brianplato3318]

Double diesel engine powered boat ride, Minimal evidence of sailing. not much Similarity to 16th century seamanship. very disappointing.

[@donlawrence1428]

Dude, the Chinese circumnavigated the globe many times 200 years prior! Read the book 1422.

[@explorepitlochry5292]

Please tell us more.

[@JamesRattray]

Historians have rejected Menzies' theories and assertions claiming that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus and have categorised his work as pseudohistory. Rowan Gavin Paton Menzies (14 August 1937 - 12 April 2020) was a British submarine lieutenant-commander who authored books claiming that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus.

[@donlawrence1428]

@@JamesRattray Would these historians be university professors?

[@donlawrence1428]

@@explorepitlochry5292 Ming ( I forget which emperor) dispatched 800 junks to explore all the oceans. Remains were found in Bahamas, Rhode Island, San Francisco Bay, amongst many others all over the globe. The book is fascinating.

[@JamesRattray]

@@donlawrence1428 I don't care who they are. It is always about where is the evidence. Interesting these Chinese claims are made by a Brit or at least the info I could find on this. Why aren't the Chinese making the claim? Maybe they are and I haven't found the link. It would appear if they did circum navigate the world in 1422, they kept it a secret, certainly from the west and maybe their own people. As I say tell us more about the evidence for this claim please.