The Most HOPELESS Battleship: HMS Captain

[@OceanlinerDesigns]

Hi friends! A huge source of inspiration for this video is the book 'Warrior to Vanguard' by Dr Oscar Parkes, whose exhaustive research crafted a fascinating narrative of British battleship design doctrine for the 19th and 20th centuries - highly recommended!

[@mustygash22]

Off the top of your head; have you any recommendations on book/websites/info on commerce raiders/auxiliary cruisers (German) of the first world war? I have been seeing some info but details of the particular ships are somewhat scarce and since some were converted out of cargo vessel designs it perhaps could be a video topic one day. Please do continue to branch out into warships, this video was very good.

[@MattVF]

Tis a very good book. A “must have” if you like British battleships.

[@MrNcgy]

Thanks, I appreciate the recommendation. I'm curious; what made you so interested in the whole subject?

[@GlamorousTitanic21]

I love it that you’ve branched out from just liners and now discuss just about anything that has happened on the seas. 😄

[@Strider91]

And above the Seas 🧐

[@marhawkman303]

the first vid of his I watched was the Kormoran one. Heh... that thing had passenger quarters, but it wasn't a cruise liner.

[@redheadsg1]

Well, just liners are very limited in content creation. Eventually he will run out of ship disasters too and he will need to find other sea like content.

[@thedangersofboredom]

Heck I’d love to see an episode on the floating dry dock at 8:34 That thing is pure Victorian madness!

[@bjoe385]

I can't wait for the Loch Ness Monster video.

[@mb2000]

I feel like naming a ship “Captain” could get confusing. “Hey, look it’s the Captain!” “What? I’m over here!” “No not you, Captain. I mean the Captain!” “But I’m the Captain…”

[@jiubboatman9352]

Catch 22 Major, Major, Major.

[@blackmusik109]

Look at me! I am the Captain now!

[@firstnamelastname6216]

Lol apparently there were more than a few substandard aspects.

[@giannidcenzo]

​😂@@jiubboatman9352

[@suhail3920]

"Of course you're the Captain, but you need to see the Captain!"

[@TWX1138]

I'm not really one to blame the Royal Navy's naval architect for washing his hands of the project. The officer who had the ideas behind HMS Captain went above the heads of those who knew what they were doing and basically took his arguments to the court-of-public-opinion. Plus at this point USS Monitor had been lost due to its own low freeboard in rough seas, so it wasn't like the phenomenon of low freeboard turret ships being lost in rough seas was unknown. The officer who steamrolled his way through the objections and secured his approval and funding from the top and that top individual bear the bulk of the blame, because if the naval architect that had resigned in protest had tried to object to issues along the way, he simply would have faced being overruled again and again, and worse, possibly forced to stamp his approval even when he did not approve. This sort of thing is common enough when engineering goes wrong that it should be recognized, but we consistently fail to learn from it.

[@RedXlV]

The monitor USS Miantonomoh (with a freeboard of a mere 31 inches) had just sailed to England the year before HMS Captain was laid down, and Coles had been given a tour of the ship. That probably gave him undue confidence in the ability of low-freeboard ships to sail the Atlantic. Though he (perhaps willfully) ignored the fact that Miantonomoh was mastless, and thus did not fatally combine that low freeboard with a high center of gravity, like Captain would do.

[@dexterlab4694]

likec Ocean Gate

[@barahng]

Ideas guys when they have control over a project:

[@exploatores]

@@dexterlab4694 that is one other case. where the constructor are so full of himself. that they don´t listen to pepole who know what they are doing and the end result is that the constructor dies.

[@MrNcgy]

Good point. It's always unfortunate when guys with fragile egos are in charge.

[@andrewwilliams7661]

I have never had any interest whatsoever in shipbuilding, sailing, oceanography, etc. And, yet, my friend Mike Brady always makes videos like this that are absolutely fascinating and incredibly well produced.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

HMS Warrior was so utterly indestructible that it's _still here_ _It's still afloat_

[@davidbriggs7365]

Not only that, but you can tour it as it was back in the day.

[@ladela7348]

And ironically it survived by being turned into a training ship in 1904 and then into an oil hulk off the coast of Wales in WWII - she was completely restored to her original condition in the 1980s!

[@choc113]

I've been on her. The impressions I got where creepy, cold and quiet.

[@NashmanNash]

@@choc113 Nah..that was just the impression of England in general

[@zamnodorszk7898]

It's an amazing ship to tour. I'd recommend it for anyone who's a fan of old ships.

[@CaptainColdyron222]

Mike, I think you should do a video on the collision between HMS Camperdown and HMS Victoria. A young commander named John Jellicoe was one of the survivors.

[@hanzzel6086]

How unfortunate.

[@somethinglikethat2176]

​@@hanzzel6086 that you Beatty?

[@googlesucks6029]

Reed's level of I told you so is a level most people fantasise about when they're ignored.

[@Pigness7]

Thanks for covering lesser known wrecks, this stuff is so interesting.

[@27Metaldragon]

I doubt any cooperation would've served to save Captain. It sounds like a story we see often, much like Oceangate, where Coles had so much pressure and backing the Admiralty knew that the bad design was inevitable. So rather than lose their credibility by attaching themselves, they simply let it happen. The only thing that could sink this projects it seems; would have to be the ocean.

[@JD-ft5zq]

Couldn't agree more. I'd guess if the admiralty had cooperated as Mike suggests. The weight may have been closer to spec but only offered a few additional degrees of roll before catastrophe? Was that additional weight in upper plates, lower plates, uniform throughout, design changes? Unfortunately the video doesn't give anything to make a guess. But yeah Cole sounds a lot like Stockton

[@MostlyPennyCat]

A few degrees of roll for a fully rigged ocean going ship.... By design, ships with sails roll different amounts depending on what course you've set, hauling, reaching or running. Not to mention roll change while crossing the wind, tacking and jibing. Jibing especially must have been utterly terrifying on Captain 😨

[@SampoPaalanen]

I suspect that might be why the plans were marked "not objected to" instead of "approved", what Reed actually meant by "not objected to" was "I cannot approve these, but there's too much pressure for me to reject them so I'll mark them down as "not objected to" as I have no realistic means to object to the plans"

[@JD-ft5zq]

@@MostlyPennyCat No, I said a few additional degrees possibly. Mike already stated in the video 21 degrees would be catastrophic. Since 10-20 would be normal everyday sailing for ships of that time. 21 as a limit sounds insane, and 24 (I.E. a few additional) doesn't sound much better

[@Damorann]

@27Metaldragon I agree with you. When someone is trying to go over your head to approve something you simply cannot condone as an expert, the worst thing to do is actually cooperate to try and mitigate anything. If you do, the failure will be almost entirely on your hands and everyone will throw you under the bus. By standing aside and not vetting anything, you can say that you never came even close to approving anything, which leaves the ones who pressed the idea over your ruling to be the sole persons responsible. There's a very good reason we build entire groups of experts on technical subjects. Bypassing them is absolutely not acceptable and when that occurs, they should stay as far away from those projects as they can.

[@Dakiraun]

That last sentence summed up all the story SO well. Excellent video, as always.

[@AceStorch]

Yes - strong finish. Nice writing.

[@initdeit]

Alright I'll just jump to that then. Half an hour saved.

[@МихайлоСєльський]

Yeah, finding a way to still point fingers and put blame where none of it belongs, "well" and "excellent" indeed.

[@MultiEinsteinium]

The reason there was no cooperation given, is because this was precisely about the conflict between professional, qualified and experienced naval designers, who were definitely at times too conservative and clung to proven ideas, versus amateur civilian designers who would lobby enormous amounts of non-naval interest using patriotism, fear of the french and pointing to the perceived loss of supremacy to foist sometimes useless ideas on the navy. The navy basically made this happen to lance the boil of amateur inventor enthusiasts. Here was the living embodiment of giving someone enough rope to hang themselves. Plus, lets not forget that the navy cooperated with Coles on the Monarch, but because he didn't get all his way, he made their life hell. THERE was the cooperation between Coles' idealism and the navy's expertise you think should have happened. HMS Captain was the result of Coles insisting that his innovations should trump the navy's experience completely.

[@abnurtharn2927]

Drachinifel has a video about the search after HMS Captain.

[@SiobhanFalque]

Coll & Reed's story is what happens when a fantastical dreamer is prioritized over an experienced, practical, and intuitive architect.

[@windoverwaves6781]

To be fair to Cole, he was an actual designer and his turret design is very influential to all future turret design - best in the era and is the basis of pretty much all future designs. He just overestimated his competency in designing actual ships.

[@raquellofstedt9713]

If they could have worked together, Captain would have been a great innovation. Alas.

[@windoverwaves6781]

@@raquellofstedt9713 no? HMS Monarch was launch a year earlier, have pretty much the same turret layout, same guns, and managed to be more accurate and faster firing. Unlike the Captain, she also managed to not sink itself and enjoyed a long and fruitful career, broken up in 1905. The actual great innovation in those years, is the two-ship Devastation class. Much more sensible turret layout and the first ocean-going warship in the RN that don't carry sails

[@MoodusOperandi]

The Royal Maritime Museum here in Greenwich has a model of the Captain. Just looking at it boggles the mind... There's something offbeat about it.

[@babalonkie]

And for any visitors, HMS Warrior and HMS Victory can be found in Portsmouth for tourists 🙂

[@MoodusOperandi]

@baba This is where I went to uni! So many interesting maritime artifacts. 💙

[@EricCoop]

Our Friend Mike Brady!

[@keenansullivan2380]

Yay! An HMS Captain video! Please do the SS La Bourgogne disaster (Women and children first was NOT a thing during her sinking. 13% of passengers survived, while 48% of the crew survived) and as another comment suggested, the HMS Victoria due to a blunder in navigation. She sank so fast her propellers were still spinning as she went under (Photos were even taken. It's quite terrifying to see sailors clinging onto the stern as she goes under with the propellers still spinning) and she also has the dubious distinction of being one of only two known shipwrecks that are...vertical on the seafloor (The other being the Russian monitor, Rusalka, which ironically sank the same year: 1893).

[@blondbraid7986]

I'm not superstitious, but in case of the Rusalka, naming a boat after a water sprite who drowns people just feels like tempting fate.

[@keenansullivan2380]

@@blondbraid7986 All three of these cases were cursed by fate and disastrous blunders. Under her captain, the La Bourgogne had prior collisions because the ship was always going full speed (Including sinking a vessel in fog that was anchored waiting out the fog). Ironically, she herself would be sunk in foggy conditions after a collision with the Cromartyshire. The fog was so thick the crew of the Cromartyshire didn't know the La Bourgogne sank until lifeboats appeared within a viewable distance. No children and only only one woman survived. There was virtually no order as crew members seized available lifeboats (Only the starboard side was usable, the ship was listing too much to use port side life boats) and reportedly beat people with oars or stabbed them to prevent them from getting into the boats. The HMS Victoria was the pride of the Royal Navy, and while much better designed than the HMS Captain, she, too, was hampered by bureaucratic nonsense, egos,laziness, and baffling decisions in how she was handled. Of all situations for a naval ship to be lost in, it was a training exercise in calm conditions. A failure in signalling caused a collision with the Camperdown, where the Camperdown got do demonstrate the power of her ram bow in the worst possible way. The Rusalka was a blunder the moment she was tested for seal trials. Overweight, slower speed, and lower in the water than intended in her designs. She would have done okay perhaps in coastal patrols. What does one do with such a vessel? Make her sail out to sea in stormy conditions of course. She had an escort, but they lost sight of her...and kept going anyway (I guess it was the mindset of "Eh, I'm sure they'll be fine").

[@jeffnapoliello]

Thanks!

[@joãoAlberto-k9x]

Why not US$2.00?

[@therealbettyswollocks]

My friend and yours. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Mike Brady!

[@toddkurzbard]

From Oceanliner Designs!

[@foo219]

How often is it that not just the captain but also the designer goes down with the ship? You could make a series of that!

[@LinerDesigner]

Can you do a video of Olympics scrapping, it would be very interesting!

[@Archeantusable]

A another cozy Sunday, blessed with another video courtesy of our friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs

[@YrnehLrak]

This was a perfect vid for your channel! Please make more like this. Thoroughly enjoy the making of ships, their design process and the behind-the-scenes politics and the context of why and how the ship was built. Thank you, friends at OD. RIP to the sailors on the Captain.

[@jldisme]

I also love that you include the imperial system and the metric system.

[@Spitfiresammons]

If the team visited the wreck and see one of the gun turret in good condition it should be rise and be restored to a museum as a memorial to the crews of HMS Captain. Please do the tragedy story of HMS Victoria (1887).

[@Phaaschh]

Imagine that being told with one of Mike's full-on animations!

[@Predator42ID]

lets not.

[@Nietzsche.308]

Earliest I've ever been for an O.L.D video

[@mazeofmind3181]

You are totally amazing storyteller!

[@GaryWagers]

27:04 Earlier in this video, you described that the Admiralty had attempted to work with Coles to create a ship to his satisfaction, and the result, Monarch, only annoyed him and prompted his political backers and the public to pressure the Admiralty to let him make the ship he wanted. If the Admiralty had worked more closely with him in the construction of the Captain, correcting the ship's design flaws as it went, wouldn't the result have been the same again?

[@Sarfanger]

Yeah I think only thing admiralty did wrong was to accept ship to service. Coles literally stepped over them and went to sea lord to get this ship build because admiralty and architect didn't want to build his original death trap as he wanted it.

[@OceanlinerDesigns]

I think the impetus would be on them to push again rather than just give up and wash their hands of the whole thing, especially since they would be accepting and operating the ship. Make no mistake, Coles and his supporters must wear the majority of the blame here - but I think it was up to the admiralty to push harder and state their case although I understand that can be difficult in the face of mounting political and popular pressure!

[@Belligerent_Herald]

This one has always been fascinating. Plenty of channels have covered that it happened, you’re the first I’ve seen explore why it happened. And as usual, ego and pride. Great stuff.

[@CaffeineGeek]

It does not feel like Captain Coles was looking to cooperate or be supervised in anyway. Chief Reed and Controller of the Navy seemed to have been stymied at every step with Coles using his influence to push his design. I have been in Reed's position and it stinks. Watching a disaster in the making without the ability to stop it is one of the most helpless feelings in the world. As with Reed, all I could do was started the design is sound in its current state with the preface I did not agree with the overall concept.

[@Gregm-l9r]

Looks like HMS Captain couldn't help but turn turtle eventually Mike .

[@DATAK2084]

Another great video! I wish documentaries were this good when I was growing up.

[@BHuang92]

The last time the Royal Navy ever let someone other than themselves build their warships!

[@davidbriggs7365]

No, they had plenty of help BUILDING ships during the two World Wars, and that also goes towards designing the ships.

[@zamnodorszk7898]

It should be noted that Coles' campaign against Reed even involved the media constantly putting pressure on the Admiralty. Numerous articles were published by newspapers calling the admiralty cowards and how they should respect the revered war veteran Coles. Those same newspapers instantly shut up about their role in the loss of Captain. Remember folks: Ship design should be left to experts, not public opinion.

[@MiscellanyTop]

Absolutely excellent. Thank you very much.

[@F-Man]

Hey! It’s our friend, Mike Brady, from Oceanliner Designs!

[@seeingeyegod]

With powers COMPARABLE to Drachinifel.

[@firstnamelastname6216]

Always good to see our friend!!

[@andreabetzala5416]

Woohoo!!

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[@845_Mk6]

Crazy to see f man here f man is a guy of taste coming to watch ocean liner designs two goats on yt and both have my notifications on !

[@MARGATEorcMAULER]

Great episode,many details of the squabble to get her built that I was unaware of! Thank You for your time and effort in sharing it with us.

[@delightfullyawkwardlife]

I have been sick for the last week, and our friend Mike Brady's documentaries have been a wonderful addition to the cold meds and hot tea.

[@karlbrundage7472]

Feel better. Make sure to take all of your vitamins, especially zinc and vitamins C and D. Also, don't pass up an opportunity to get sunlight, if its available where you are. Be well..................

[@RG-Models86]

Great job, Mike 👍.

[@nicholaspruitt9032]

Naming a ship “Captain” should be against nautical protocol. It’s like giving a kid his last name as his first name too.

[@robruss62]

Nelson's flagship at Cape St. Vincent bore the same name, when he charged out of formation and hurled Captain against seven Spanish ships, several of which had nearly twice Captains firepower. He smashed her into two and captured them. Think Captain was also at The Nile

[@LunarisSutarei]

SERGEANT MAJOR MAJOR, CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE NOW MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR

[@rosswhitehead3868]

Even more hopeless than the Vasa?

[@danielseelye6005]

Considering _Captain_ didn't roll in a stiff breeze within an hour of sailing out, I'd say the comparison is a bit harsh. 🙂

[@davidriadi7999]

​@@danielseelye6005 No, HMS Captain is much worse than Vasa. Vasa is a brand new type of vessel, a fully decked gunship with heavy cannons. Even if Vasa did not sink on her maiden voyage, somewhere sometime in that period somebody would do a Vasa. During the time of HMS Captain, however, ship designers are well aware of how weight distribution affect ship rolling. So they should have known better, yet they didn't and built HMS Captain anyway.

[@phineascampbell3103]

Did everyone decide to look like Abraham Lincoln, or did Abraham Lincoln look like everyone else?!

[@MrNcgy]

Great piece of history there. Well done, and thanks to you and your team.

[@spitfire1962]

Ah I was just thinking I haven’t seen a video from you today. What timing.

[@ronjones1077]

Thank you for these history lesson’s!

[@Ironclockwork]

The ocean and human hubris makes for a spectacularly horrifying combination, as always.

[@VoreAxalon]

Fantastic piece of history I knew nothing about- God bless you and Godspeed your efforts.

[@alexbenis4726]

I knew about this ship but not all the details, great research. Think this is one of your best videos yet, thanks!

[@gordonm.9280]

Thanks Mike!

[@reneeparker7475]

I hope someone does go down to the Captain and documents the wreck with photos. There is a lot to say about good teamwork.

[@terrysmith7751]

These episodes are consistently well-researched and entertaining.

[@kingdomrains]

Doomed by Design is an awesome name for a video series

[@Squeep1]

I second this

[@johnjephcote7636]

Before the Captain sailed, John Trevithick, Second Lieutenant, had cut a parchment page from an Ethiopian manuscript and given it to a friend, a sailor on HMS Malibu. It was in Coptic but Trevithick had been on attachment to Lord Napier's 1858 expedition, helping to chart a course through the Hormuz Straits at the entrance to the Persian Gulf. In boxes of plunder were dozens of manuscipts. The page in question was attractine, written in well-spaced, looping Ethiopian script in black ink and red crosses at the points of punctuation. One column had a painting of a group, a man and five women placing a body in a tomb. The pretty page made a decent present. The rest of the MS was sent to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. One of the group, unlike the others, is a white man in priest's robes, kneeling, praying with hands oustretched in forgiveness. It is Pilate at the tomb of Jesus seeking repentance. The page, sewn into a sailor's vest with nametape was recovered and has been translated, being a prayer from Pilate in short Coptic sentences pleading for forgiveness (as if a man gasping for air). A remarkable survival along with the few souls who found the small boat, cutting its canvas cover, that had been inside a larger one washed off the deck.

[@free_at_last8141]

Practicality aside, I love the multi-tiered multi-turret design using hardwood and black iron. What a beauty.

[@oldman975]

As a resident of the Hamtop Roads area,I very much appreciate that Mr. Brady gets the name of the confederate ship,CSS Virginia correct. An Australian can get it but almost no residents of the area can,they still refer to the Virginia as the Merrimack. Thank you sir!

[@angrytigermpc]

Speaking as an American, I think that must be an extremely regional thing... I learned about the battle of Hampton Roads as being the Monitor vs the Virginia, and the fact that the Virginia used to be a ship named the Merrimack is just a trivia factoid taught as a sort of footnote. Never heard of anyone knowing it as the Merrimack first/primarily

[@Saunterisland]

I've never heard of this vessel before. Thanks for posting

[@owengillett8871]

Incredible work Mike and the team!

[@Zarastro54]

Even a layman can see how dubious the Captain’s design was. It’s like if someone took a US Monitor and slapped a full extra hull and rigging on top of it. It is somewhat darkly humorous to think that the admiral, upon inspecting the Captain probably realized what a death trap it was and would rather have taken his chances in a little ship’s boat in those rough seas. Which turned out to be correct TWICE!

[@epeets11]

A fascinating story for sure. I feel bad for the men that went down with the ship, having little choice to be assigned to Captain, and likely having little idea of the dangerous design problems.

[@julieputney4317]

Thank you, friend Mike. I had not heard of the HMS Captain before

[@jldisme]

Great content, and you are an impeccable dresser. Faultless style!

[@daniel-leejones8396]

Superb Mike!

[@jorgemoro5476]

Always amazing content!!!!

[@davidleonard6593]

Almost all blame should fall on Coles. In that era a British commissioned naval officer was an experienced seaman. As such he should have recognized the serious inherent flaws in the design he advocated as much as Reed did.

[@LeeGoddard89]

I live a few minutes walk from the SS Great Britain which is kept in Bristol as a museum ship, its really interesting to visit and walk around the ship. It’s kept in dry dock with the hull protected from the weather so you can wonder around that too. There’s also a maritime museum joined to it which is as interesting as the ship itself. Definitely worth a visit if you’re in the area!

[@johnmarkey4862]

Well made

[@journeymancellist9247]

Love the music, btw…very well chosen!

[@MGower4465]

There are designs that looked good on paper but suffered in execution. The Captain didn't even look good in paper. You could call it a bad idea with good intentions

[@calvinwright5040]

So cool to have a in depth video about the captain!

[@bob_kerman]

"captain, the captain has sunk!!"

[@SolarWebsite]

So, the Captain went down on the Captain? I see...

[@beadowarrior]

Excellent writting, videography and story-telling. Truly top notch stuff.

[@patrickdunster1083]

But…if HMS Captain had been corrected and made seaworthy, a different ship and a different crew would’ve made the ultimate sacrifice. This wreck was unfortunate but hopefully lessons were learned worldwide that saved many lives.

[@Tyrunner0097]

I remember hearing about HMS Captain. Reading the story now proves that "the more things change, the more they stay the same". Someone without the expert knowledge on shipbuilding, nonetheless is able to use loopholes to get his design built, as ill-advised as it was, and and the ship predictably meets disaster. We continue to listen more to people that are not experienced yet highly influential over actual experts, and will continue to, unfortunately.

[@TheSaneHatter]

The mournful phrase, “O Captain! My Captain!” keeps running through my kind: it takes on an odd new meaning in the context of this tragedy.

[@danielkarmy4893]

Ah, our friend Mike Brady - and a mention for my friend HMS Warrior! I see her often, sat, as she is, merrily afloat just across the harbour from my town. I don't think it's any exaggeration to say that, should the call come and the need arise, she'd be quite capable of looking after herself even today! The less-heralded younger sister - it was ever thus - but a remarkable, redoubtable ship. The same, I fear, I will not in half an hour's time be able to say of HMS Captain...

[@PaulThatcher-iu5in]

Fascinating - could we please have an episode on how ship designers and builders actually estimate and measure weight, freeborad, centre of gravity, and other parameters?

[@leftpastsaturn67]

And what rank are you good sir? Captain. And your vessel? Captain. No, your ship. Captain. Never mind.

[@bodan1196]

"My Captain, my Captain. The Captain has sunk."

[@theminingassassin16]

I was wondering when you'd get around to this one.

[@barrydysert2974]

Sorry Mike, but You massively missed the upper end of cannon shot size in the age of sail. 32 pounders were not uncommon and even 64 pounders could be found. Tisk tisk !:-)

[@sheogorath7655]

"Doomed by Design" should be the name of a series by our friend Mike Brady!

[@MikeHunt-fo3ow]

ya gotta sneak up to enemy ships and empty bags of termites and wait a few weeks lol

[@gundog39]

Once again our commander Rear Admiral Mike Brady grace us with his presence. 🙂

[@TealCheetah]

I don't remember hearing about this ship until now, wow

[@cherylcarter4046]

Does this make us the Brady bunch? 😊

[@R.M.S_Titanic1912]

Another great video as always, also no im not trying to be the first to comment im just here to express my liking on this channel.

[@mustygash22]

Splendid video as always.

[@victoriantimes4522]

Love your content man

[@kineuhansen8629]

evry time i see something about ironclads like hms warrior wich is still around today i wish we had a total war empire scale rts game about from the early days of iron clads to late iron clads

[@mfrsr]

hearing an Australian accent pronounce "iron" like this is seriously screwing with my OCD. thanks very much, Mike 😂

[@JDSleeper]

In a colossal battle of egos 472 men lost their lives.

[@bradydacloud]

At least she’s trying!

[@HunterCihal]

I love the military ships content so much

[@TXGRunner]

You haven't worked in government, have you? Based solely on your video, Cooperation yielded HMS Monarch. Cole then went over everyone's heads to non-technical civilian politicians to get his way. I am not sure why you think, after receiving a blank check, Cole would suddenly start listening to the very people he thought ruined his concept earlier? Faced with the reality of political pressure, the Admiralty and architect took the only option available to them: taking no responsibility. ...and even that didn't shield them from blame. Thanks for another great video.

[@davidjones332]

Cowper Coles even carried his criticisms of Reed's policies into the national newspapers using his influential friends, forcing Reed to defend himself in public. As usual stupid and ignorant newspaper proprietors with no understanding of the issues at stake were happy to stoke the controversy, either due to prejudice or just to sell newspapers. 150 years later nothing has changed there.

[@vaughanjones5933]

This was excellent. Thank you.

[@kevinbarry71]

A small example of what happens when you allow a populist to control something important

[@jamedmurphy4468]

As opposed to the "Adults" and "Experts"....your Trump Derangement Syndrome betrays you....

[@lyedavide]

Thanks for another interesting episode!

[@ozziemederos]

Awesome video Mike well done 👏 ❤

[@matthewgood1873]

Your videos are my number 1 favorite. Man

[@roselightinstorms727]

Wow that's so sad