Britain's Biblical Storm, The Great Storm of 1703

[@thescarletpumpernel3305]

In that one night about 40 miles of sand dunes reaching 30 feet high in places were created on the Lincolnshire coast and can still be walked from Grimsby to Skegness to this day. Truly a once in a millennium event.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Wow, I wasn't awareof that. Thanks for sharing.

[@andylane247]

The dunes were there in 1960's when I used to go on holiday...

[@JoeRitchie-e5l]

Such a sad episode in British history told with great professionalism. The fact that the people recovered and the country went on to do great things is a testament to the perseverance of Britains people

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching & for your comment.

[@davidwhite4874]

I remember the storm of '87 well. Lying in bed feeling the house shake and listening to the roof tiles cascading on to the crazy paving and road below. Then up the next day and on to the roof to try and unroll the lead work and mallet it back into position on the dormer windows to stop the rain getting in. Walking on the South Downs and the hillsides looked like graveyards with the roots of the blown down trees all exposed and white with chalk and flint looking like grave stones, ancient woods destroyed or changed beyond recognition forever. Mental.

[@timhulland]

I remember 15/10/87 very well. I was working in Norwich and decided to travel back to Derby on the afternoon of the 15th, just before the storm hit. On Saturday the 17th I was married and 37 years later we are still together, now living in Australia. How one decision can change the course of your life.

[@davidwhite4874]

@ Ha! Yes. Congratulations!

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for your interesting feedback & for watching my video

[@BerylForrest]

I was working nights at royal mail, next morning rows of trees had been ripped off, trunks snapped about 10 foot above the ground

[@david-hf3dk]

I lived up Boxhill and was woken up in the early morning as I heard heard all the trees coming down around the house and looked out of my bedroom window and thought they had dropped the bomb and it was the blast from it but was tired so thought stuff it and went back to bed.

[@gilgamesh101]

I was in Cranbrook in 87, three stories up when the bough of a tree came through our window in the early hours and landed on my bed! The next morning the first line of trees along the side of the sports pitches looked like they had been decapitated at about 8ft above the ground, for several hundred metres. Just stumps left, really spooky sight. While the school as closed, a few of us spent the next couple of weeks clearing local roads of fallen trees, and generally chopping up everything in sight with the chainsaws we knew from home or had just been taught to use. Big thanks to the barman/landlord at the hotel bar up the hill for happily serving us 14-16 yr olds at the end of a hard days clear up!

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching my video & your interesting feedback.

[@grannyweatherwax9666]

I was in Cranbrook too, well Hartley!

[@AwesomeAngryBiker]

Mr show off 🙄🙄🙄

[@mkendallpk4321]

I came across your channel a while ago and found it so enlightening about British history. As an American I always want to hear the other side of a story and you do that very well. You have a natural talent to speak in a way that makes whatever subject you are talking about enjoyable. Thank you.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Grateful for your support. Thank you

[@StarWarsJay]

I was a teenager during the 1987 storm living in Norfolk. I was awoken by the sound of flying dustbins and trees going over. I have no idea why, but as I woke up I shouted “hurricane Annie”. My then girlfriend told me to shut up and go back to sleep. When we woke up, the massive tree in our garden had been blown over and hit the outhouse missing my bedroom by feet.

[@GaryWarren-gn8zg]

No way.. So was I

[@bigbasil1908]

I was a kid and I remember opening my jacket and leaning into the wind fully lol. I can't help but think that storm had something to do with the Chernobyl disaster the previous year.

[@StarWarsJay]

@ I never thought about that. I hope not 😱

[@StarWarsJay]

@GaryWarren-gn8zg living in Norfolk or a teenager or both 😂

[@lechatel]

I live in an early 17th century house. It is of oak framed construction and the chimney stack and hearth is in the middle of the house. At ceiling height are large pieces of stone...more than a yard long and very heavy. They are basically the weight that holds the house together.

[@PenelopePitstop0078]

Built like a proper house❣️

[@irenabevans3411]

Never forget the storm of 1987, window blown in splinters of glass embedded in the walls, furnishings piled up against the walls, bed upside down, roof ripped off & me cowering in the airing cupboard, the back windows sucked out bath ripped out, kitchen disappeared out the window, so much for Mr Fish's slightly breezy night, not believed the weather reports since, lived in Havant at the time, trees uprooted cars turned over & smashed into trees & walls now I trust myself , looking out the window looking at the sky & listening to the wind for the weather outlook,

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for sharing.

[@janeadams647]

That must have been terrifying.

[@kernowboy137]

HMS Association only survived a further four years before being wrecked off the Isles of Scilly with Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cloudesley Shovell, along with nearly 2,000 sailors in 1707, in another British maritime disaster. It was this disaster that prompted research by John Harrison into a mechanism that could accurately calculate Longitude.

[@DrivermanO]

Beat me to this observation!

[@TheHistoryChap]

You are absolutely correct. Maybe I should tell that story sometime, what do you think?

[@shawnaweesner3759]

@@TheHistoryChap. That would be neat!

[@bobrussell3602]

Sir Cloudesley Shovel. Whenever I can't find my shovel, I say 'has anyone seen my Sir Cloudesley ?'

[@andrewmcalister3462]

@@TheHistoryChapLongitude has been well covered already. But the disaster that lead to it would be a great story.

[@nathanappleby5342]

WOW! Such is the power of nature in our world. Never before had I heard of such destruction brought by a storm. Those who survived I have no doubt were scarred for the rest of their lives and the land and everything else damaged and destroyed took a considerable amount of time to recover. Thanks once again Chris for this great and tragic story from long ago.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for taking the time to comment, Nathan. I’m glad you enjoyed this particular story

[@kirstymacfarlane2117]

These wind speeds and even the gusts to 140mph are experienced in the North of Scotland now and again. But there's nothing left here to blow away 😁

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for your feedback.

[@karencarpenterarchiveplayl7267]

Fascinating. I'm from Deal, and although I was aware of the 1703 storm, I didn't know the impact it had on my town and the surrounding area.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Glad you found it interesting.

[@scottp9048]

Brilliantly told Chris ! I knew something of the storm but this has filled all the gaps , thank you.

[@TheHistoryChap]

My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@davetheotter7039]

Snug in my bed, between the flannel sheets, enjoying the story and thankful I was not there. Happy thanksgiving.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Happy Thanks giving to you too.

[@BMW7series251]

Excellent. Thanks, John.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@andrewsteele7663]

Chris, that was a cracking story, and what a terrible loss of life. With the agriculture being so badly affected, I wonder if there was a mini famine? Cheers

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed my video.

[@davegower6919]

A tragic story but fascinating. During the storm of 1987 I was courting my future wife on the Isle of Sheppey. Her father was a Ships Pilot. Whilst not on duty that night he did have a his radio with him and hearing the calls for assistance and maydays etc. They were dragging their anchors and being pushed towards the shore. I also remember watching caravans being blown over and rolled over the cliffs. A terrible night.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks so much for sharing your memories of the storm of 1987. I can only imagine how terrifying it was for the men on the ships back in 1703.

[@davidwhite4874]

@@davegower6919 Yes, there was a caravan site near me on the Sussex coast and I remember cycling past a few days later and seeing all the caravans rolled on top of each other , completely destroyed.

[@AwesomeAngryBiker]

Yeah yeah Mr bragger

[@davegower6919]

@@AwesomeAngryBiker ?

[@barry7608]

Well narrated, thanks.

[@TheHistoryChap]

My pleasure. Thanks for your kind comment.

[@jasonallen6081]

Something similar happened in the Bristol channel in 1607 . 2000 + people died from Devon to Gloucester. They say it was a storm surge but are not entirely sure. Some others think it was a tsunami but are not entirely sure. It's very odd for a tsunami or a powerful storm surge to be so localised and not show any other real evidence anywhere but in the Bristol channel. Interesting video.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Yes you are right. Thanks for sharing.

[@167curly]

Thank you for the account of the great storm of 1703. The hurricane of 1987 was called Emily, and we in Bermuda had felt her wrath a few days earlier. She destroyed six of the seven old oak trees in the town of Seven Oaks, Kent.

[@TheHistoryChap]

So I seem to recall.

[@StuartArm-bi2cj]

Thank you, Chris, well told as always. I was living in a basement flat in west London in 1987. I noticed a short power cut but otherwise nothing. Imagine our surprise stepping outside in the morning to discover Armageddon! I just finished a short history of Haslar Royal Naval Hospital in Gosport. Have you ever considered a few stories of significant but less well known British military establishments?

[@TheHistoryChap]

I love that idea about some of the British military establishments. Leave it with me...

[@richardyates7280]

I slept through it even though a large tree branch fell through a lean-to orangery on the other end of the bungalow I was living in.

[@anakatrien2463]

I have been through 7 hurricanes in my life, so this story brought me to tears. I do understand the hurt and the loss 😿

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for sharing.

[@johnedreslin]

Glad you made a full video of this event.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed my video.

[@connoroleary591]

The "Night of the Big Wind in Ireland and the north of England was similar. It happened in early January with huge snow falls, immediately followed by unusually high temperatures for January, that rapidly melted the snow. That was followed by hurricane winds that killed hundreds of people, sank great ships and destroyed thousands of houses. Today, people have the impression that our climate was steady and predictable and only started to change around the year 2002.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for taking the time to share.

[@dontnoable]

Climate Change is making these events way more frequent though.

[@PrometheanBlade]

Cool story, but literally no one has that impression.

[@ludwigderzanker9767]

Thank you Chris, for the today's story, I must confess I never heard of it. A bit more history of the chap from the island never hurt. Ludwig

[@TheHistoryChap]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@shanemossmoss]

Thanks Chris an amazing video.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@robinwhitebeam4386]

The 1987 storm was worrying as chimney stacks were being blown down. I drove to central London the day after and saw Hugh trees fallen against and through buildings, I drove zig zag fashion between fallen trees and garden walls. There was very little traffic , I could park anywhere and l left my car next to a large bookshop. Most of the railway lines were closed resulting in quiet streets. I was a Hospital surveyor at the time , a surreal visit to London.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for taking the time to share your memories.

[@paulannable3734]

Poor Hugh Trees. Was he ok?

[@ProfessorM-he9rl]

Thank you for this post, very informative.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed my video.

[@jeremypearson6852]

I left England for Florida in 1982, so I never experienced the 1987 storm. However, I’ve had to live with the threat of hurricanes ever since. The 1703 storm was a cat 3, which must have been terrifying for the time. At least with today’s technology we can see a storm approaching and make some kind of preparation.

[@chatteyj]

After this video was made we've just had another storm a week ago storm Darragh it was pretty bad

[@Kat-tr2ig]

I'm glad that where I live, in central Argentina, we have extremely mild weather. No hurricanes, no landslides, no earthquakes, no floods, no volcanos, no tornados, nothing. I feel for those who have had to live through such terrifying natural disasters, and RIP to all of the victims.

[@Rukas6116]

You have very beautiful women in Argentina as well

[@PenelopePitstop0078]

Sounds perfect, what area should I research?

[@paulus4222]

Weather might be nice but economy and politically a disaster.

[@DavidJohnson-yg8qm]

Any chance of moving there?

[@14Anon2]

I always find it amusing that Argentina has entire villages of the descendants of Welsh colonists - who still speak Welsh to this day.

[@denisehorner8448]

Great video! 😊

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thank you.

[@monicacall7532]

History should ALWAYS be presented in such a fascinating way. Bravo.👏

[@prarieborn6458]

Yes, I agree that history to have meaning, should be told as a true story Historical novels wrtiiten by an author , preferably a Real professionsal Historian or a gifted writer who consults original sources , are the best IMO. They bring history to life.

[@casey203]

This is the first time I’ve heard the term “Protestant Wind” used to describe the weather damning the Spanish Armada. It was a very hilarious visual. On a more series note, my heart goes still out to those who died. As a Floridian I can empathize with the power of hurricanes. They can be very serious.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment.

[@The27thPilot]

I completed my master's dissertation on the Great Heathen Army, so I have a deep passion for history. I must also express how much I enjoy your channel-it's truly a breath of fresh air. Thank you!

[@TheHistoryChap]

Oooh, the Great Heathen Army is on my hit list. If you'd like to share your knowledge please send me a message via my website: www.thehistorychap.com

[@shawnaweesner3759]

I bet that your dissertation was so interesting.

[@prarieborn6458]

@@TheHistoryChap What was the Great Heathen Army? iI have heard about the New Model Army in the English Civil War. Was it the Barbarisn Invasion of Britannia after the Roman legions left? I have reaad that historians have “de-bunked” that theory. Anyway, I really enjoyed this story about the great storm of 1703. Do Climatologists have any answers ? 300 + yrs later the world is having really wild weather disasters They blame it on greenhouse gasses from burning fossil fuels. However, the Churches say it is the wrath of God punishing the wickeness of mankind surpassing that of the time of Noah.

[@AwesomeAngryBiker]

Bragger

[@The27thPilot]

@@AwesomeAngryBiker Do you wear a lot of green ? Or is that to deep for you !

[@shawnaellcey6970]

You just popped up in my feed from across the pond! ( USA) I had never heard of this storm! Very interesting, thank you! ❤

[@waynestewart3232]

It's good to know that He still calms the waves.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Indeed

[@-xirx-]

0:56 The British people would never allow Michael Fish to forget this for the rest of his life in England!!

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

And yet he was correct. There wasn't a hurricane. It was a bomb cyclone, which caused hurricane strength winds. And there wasn't even a caller to the weather centre.

[@causewaykayak]

SPELLING!

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching my video

[@-xirx-]

@@causewaykayak woops! Thnx

[@causewaykayak]

@@-xirx- You weren't alone.

[@rickkearn7100]

How fortunate am I to discover this channel with its great content, quality, production and presentation I cannot tell you. So impressed. This story was riveting, due to the chap presenting the story. I subscribed. Cheers.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Many thanks for your support.

[@naturalroyalflush]

The people stepping forward as usual. The generosity of the man paying for everything.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching.

[@keithivey6175]

I very much enjoyed listing to the stories of the many who were affected by this storm. Will tune in again

[@KevinRudd-w8s]

I was aware of this storm, but this is both a fascinating and interesting account. Having been in a few storms at sea when I was in the merchant navy during the eighties and nineties, I can only imagine how terrifying it must have been for those sailors back then, especially those who managed to get on to the Goodwin's only to be left to their fate as the tide rose. That guy who tried to save them was a true hero.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching Kevin. I think the mayor of Deal had some grit.

[@bobrussell3602]

Absolutely brilliant. Glad I subscribed !

[@tonyharpur8383]

Brilliant account, Chris! Well done!

[@TheHistoryChap]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching.

[@jbyrd2516]

Going to include this event in the info on my family tree. While I won’t have specific details on how it impacted on my English and Welsh ancestors, it does give me an opportunity to look into the effect on specific locations where they lived. Thank you.

[@TheHistoryChap]

I wish you well with your research.

[@colinsmith7465]

Brilliant video again Chris. I've certainly something today about our history. Thanks.

[@simonnoble7589]

Thank you Chris for your hard work ... Narrated wonderfully

[@TheHistoryChap]

Very kind of you. Thanks.

[@dzzope]

1:00 Micheal Fish was not wrong in that a hurricane was not hitting Britain. Hurricanes are much smaller with stronger sustained winds and release about the same energy as an Atlantic storm but as it's in a smaller area it is usually more destructive. Hurricane force winds were part of that storm but that doesn't make it any more a hurricane than a tornado is.. If we had been hit by an actual Hurricane in 87, there would have been much much more damage and probably a whole lot more flooding

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for your feedback.

[@davidwoods7720]

Thank you so much Chris

[@TheHistoryChap]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@POEMS466]

Awesome video! And in more ways than one. Thanks! "The greatest accomplishments of Man are as nothing before the awesome might of nature."

[@TheHistoryChap]

Great comment. Thanks for posting.

[@POEMS466]

@TheHistoryChap You're quite welcome. I've seen many of your videos and think you're doing a great job. Cheers!

[@zyxw2000]

Excellent video, well-researched.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@princeprocrastinate6485]

Excellent video, thank you for expanding my knowledge of my country's history, I had never heard of this before.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.

[@williamrobinson7435]

Beautifully crafted and presented, this is right up my street. A new subscriber writes. Nice one Mr History Man! 🌟👍

[@markbates2922]

Great Video, subscribed, The 1953 Floods that devastated the East coast seldom gets spoken about. I remember watching a documentary about it about 20 years ago, the stories fromthe people in the path of Flooding were absolutely heartbreaking.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for supporting me, very much appreciated. Have seen footage of the 1953 floods. Fascinating history.

[@1976PEZZA]

Fascinating and brilliantly told

[@TheHistoryChap]

Glad you enjoyed my video, thanks for watching.

[@FranciscoPreira]

Great info, did not know about that huge misfortune, thanks for sharing.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed my video.

[@zyxw2000]

Nobody was disgraced.

[@FranciscoPreira]

@@zyxw2000 my apologies it as been corrected.

[@hudl2464]

Hello Chris a great presentation of British history.

[@bullettube9863]

A force two hurricane in Florida is referred to as a thunderstorm compared to the force three, fours and fives the Southern coast of America have endured! But to a country that doesn't see such storms often, It must have been terrifying!

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching & for your feedback.

[@-xirx-]

England (and especially the fens of East Anglia) had another immense storm and flooding in 1947

[@PaulJohn01]

My home area, also The Great Drowning/St Marcellus Flood back in the 1300's was just as devastating.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching and the feedback

[@LoganTellsHistoryZW]

Wow thanks for the story Chris!

[@TheHistoryChap]

My pleasure Logan. Hope all is well with you?

[@chrisward7085]

I seem to remember reading that in 1703, gale force winds lasted about three weeks in addition to the 24 hours worth of hurricane force winds.The 1987 storm was more localised in its severe effects. I think Kent, Hampshire and Sussex were the worst affected, whereas the 1703 storm was severe across the whole of the Southern half of the country and Wales.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for commenting. I think I said that weather had been deteriorating for 2 weeks prior to the storm.

[@laurentgyslaine4714]

Merci pour la traduction.. l'histoire anglaise est si riche et intéressante ..

[@CafeeDomminite]

Wonderful video, the images of the ships during the storm were a great. I’ve been a fan of Defoe for sometime, in Robinson Crusoe, he mentions not too far into the book, a great storm (I am sure it was another storm if I’m remembering correctly), He’s in Yarmouth roads and he can see Winterton lights, and mentions Winterton Ness. This is the village i live and so holds a special place in my heart. I’m actually half way through The Storm, it’s a fascinating book. The eye witness accounts really give an idea of how terrifying this storm would have been

[@TheHistoryChap]

Very interesting. Thanks for contributing.

[@arthurkearney6193]

Thank you for sharing wonderful articulation of all those human stories.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@watchman2263]

Fascinating thank you. They were, or must have been so tough and hardy in those days, in the freezing wind and rain, no heating save for burning damp old wood, eating not great food and endless damp and cold weather and living in makeshift one room wooden houses with open sewers. Britain's climate is and was attrocious, driving emmigration to warmer lands, and just a few years before there had, i understand been a decade or so of continuously wet weather where crops failed completely for several years.

[@trinitytwo14992]

Well done, thank you for this video.

[@TheHistoryChap]

My pleasure! Thanks for watching.

[@peterthompson888]

Thanks it makes that episode off the vicar of Dibley make sense and much funnier 🤣

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching my video.

[@PenelopePitstop0078]

I’d never heard about this storm, ty.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching & your comment.

[@PenelopePitstop0078]

@ I love all kinds of history❣️

[@mayday6916]

A very well made and interesting video! Extra points for speaking so clearly. 😊 I visited London with my mum during Christmas in 1987. We stayed at a bed and breakfast in Bayswater and took walks in Hyde Park. I love trees, and it was so sad to see so many that had stood in the park now lying on the ground. You could see that they were very old. I think many had already been removed by then, but there were still many huge tree trunks lying along Bayswater road and in the park. There were holes where the trees had been, and the park looked half empty. How interesting that one ship in 1703 was blown all the way to Sweden, where I live! It makes me wonder if that storm reached our country. Can't find any information about it. The worst storm/hurricane in recorded history in Sweden was Gudrun/Erwin in 2005. I read that it caused a lot of damage in the whole of northern Europe. In the south of Sweden it felled an estimated 75 million cubic meters of forest in one night!

[@Ray_of_Light62]

Great history telling. Thank you...

[@TheHistoryChap]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ante90]

Thank you very interesting and very enjoyable to watch and listen too as usual, very impressive the wide range of subjects covered by you but all with such fantastic detail 👏👏

[@TheHistoryChap]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@robbiezy]

6 million in 1703 would be worth over 450,000,000,000 today

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

@robbiezy I have just indexed that at the Bank of England Inflation calculator and it says goods and services which cost £6million in 1703, would cost £1, 225, 271, 404 .92p in 2024 - so about one and a quarter billion of today's pounds - which (even allowing that making such comparisons is particularly difficult and imprecise - as well as I'm sure no intention on your part to deceive) is 367 times less than the £450billion (so not far off half a trillion) figure you supply. Asides from the reassurance of the quality and reliability of my source, a small pause to do a "common sense check" would immediately inform you that your modern day equivalent figure is a wild overstatement, not one, but two entire orders of magnitude wide of the mark. Never mind nowhere near the mark, never mind another county, your number's on a different continent. As said, even if (like me) you had NO idea of how the 1703 numbers relate to today's, it really isn't that hard to assess a whole basket of similar storms which, not many years into the 20th century, became very well documented. He even advised how similar (at least in intensity, if not death toll) the Great Storm of 1987 was to the one in 1703 - and that that hurricane had caused about £7 billion in today's money - still several times more than £1.225 billion but at least in the same order of magnitude. Furthermore, the Americans - no strangers to a hurricane - graciously publish detailed reports on dozens of major storms. Perhaps most infamously, Katrina in 2005 which while it did in fact become a Category 5 hurricane briefly while still in the Gulf of Mexico on August 28th 2005 - with maximum sustained winds of up to 175mph - by the time it attained landfall, it was a Category 3 which, judged purely in meteorological terms, is nothing extraordinary although because of the storm surges it caused which overtopped the levees that were supposed to defend New Orleans, the damage was cataclysmic so despite technically being a fairly mid ranking hurricane, the particular features of it ended up making it the one which caused the greatest amount of damage - estimates vary from $75billion to $200billion but even if we take the upper limit, at today's exchange rates that's about £150 billion and at August 2005 exchange rates, it was nearer to £111 billion. Thus, the most expensive storm in US history (which is on an altogether higher plane than we are in terms of its experience of storms) is only a quarter of your given equivalent figure. Further still £450billion is about 1/7th of our current £3.34 trillion GDP and despite our current woes, we are still in the handful of richest countries in the world. Even COVID didn't consume £450billion. I do hope this helps as I find my most topics quite amenable to these sorts of "sense checks" which quickly identify the worst possible errors. After all, no one wants to be remembered like Archbishop James Usher who, in 1650, published probably his most famous work concerned with arriving at a date for creation which he concluded was "nightfall on the 23rd October 4004BC" So he actually transpired to be six orders of magnitude out, rather than your two - but he didn't have the Internet......

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for the feedback.

[@tonymurray814]

450 billion? I don’t think so!!

[@mikerodent3164]

@@tonymurray814 Hahahaaaaaaaa. No, he meant 450 trillion, 450,000,000,000,000. Easy mistake to make.🙂🙂🙂🙃

[@tonymurray814]

@@mikerodent3164 Really? Wanna buy a bridge?

[@alanmoffat4454]

HISTORY ALWAYS HAS A STORY OF WHAT HAS BEEN AND THATS OUTSTANDING. 😮😊

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching y video.

[@juliebarks3195]

I've been to the Roger Sands many times as a child. We would sail with the incoming tide from Boston, through the sea gates, and into the wash. We would moor just off the sands and row over. My brother and I found part of a WW2 plane buried there. Same setup as the Goodwin Sands only accessible at low tide.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching my video & for your interesting feedback.

[@gwc656g]

Old' Ma nature has to show her dominance once in awhile. December 1944 saw several US ships sunk by the sea, not enemy action.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for sharing.

[@ek2910]

Cobra

[@davidpnewton]

No. He (Fish) was right and she (the viewer) was wrong. The 1987 storm was NOT a hurricane. It was a particularly nasty extratropical cyclone. Hurricanes are tropical systems.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching my video & your feedback.

[@becantonopoulos2604]

Cyclones and hurricanes are the same thing!

[@davidpnewton]

@becantonopoulos2604 careful with your terminology. You're conflating different meanings. Hurricanes and typhoons are indisputably the same phenomenon except in different parts of the world. There is no ambiguity. Cyclones? VERY different situation. When the term is used to mean tropical systems in the Indian Ocean basin then it is also referring to the same phenomenon as a hurricane. However there is a second, wider meaning of the term that is NOT necessarily referring to the same phenomenon. Cyclone's second meaning is low pressure systems in general. Hence anti-cyclone, the opposite of a cyclone. Hence extra-tropical cyclone, what the 1703 storm, the 1987 storm and in fact all storms the UK experiences are. Tropical cyclones and extratropical cyclones are phenomena with fundamentally different driving forces. Tropical cyclones simply cannot occur round the UK. Sea is too cold. Therefore calling the 1987 storm a "hurricane" exposes a fundamental ignorance of meteorology by the maker of that claim. It's the meteorological equivalent of calling a modern warship a "battleship" when no such vessels have been in naval service for over 30 years with the possible exception of HMS Victory which is still a commissioned warship and can legitimately be called a battleship of the line of battle (ship of the line in more common parlance).

[@christinae30]

I noticed the publishing date of your video!👌 The sailor/seaman that was flung from one ship to another, did he survive that?

[@TheHistoryChap]

Yes he did survive.

[@Moonpearl121]

I didn't know any of that - thank you!

[@yellads]

This is great. You should do vids on the Mini Ice Age (Maunder Minimum) when London froze and the Carrington Event.

[@TheHistoryChap]

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[@efnissien]

The was also the infamous 'Royal charter storm' of 25 Oct. 1859. And was named after one of the ships lost that day. The Royal Charter was returning from the Australian goldfields and heading to Liverpool, when she was caught in the storm and wrecked on the rocks of Moelfre, Anglesey, North Wales. Even though she was just metres from the shore over 450 passengers and crew died. Recently the largest gold nugget found in the UK or UK waters was recovered offshore, not far from the wreck and is believed to be part of the Royal Charter's cargo.

[@derrymullins-fp8pl]

Well done Charlie Peters and GBN. A brave prodcast. You deserve every accolade available for your presentation.I shall watch Mr. Peter's career with interest and support . D. Mullins

[@TheHistoryChap]

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[@stantheman4964]

Thank you that was very informative and entertaining, ill be back.

[@mopenshaw]

Americans, particularly Floridians, watching this think; Force 2? How quaint! Went through a force 2 typhoon in Taiwan just a few weeks ago myself. But, back then, England certainly didn't build to deal with such.

[@TheHistoryChap]

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[@14Anon2]

Congratulations.

[@QALibrary]

Yet another great video - not sure how you do it Chris - do we know if this year was an El Niño or even a La Niña?

[@TheHistoryChap]

Interesting question, to which I don't know the answer.

[@associatedblacksheepandmisfits]

Good question indeed , I got caught in the North Sea in 87 , took us 4 days of hove to ,heard several mayday calls on vhf , lost half my deck cargo😮 cheers Mr fish 🎏 , wonder what nino that was now...😊

[@QALibrary]

@@TheHistoryChap I try and look it up or phone a few friends - the library community is full of specialists and closely knit

[@charlesxix]

There was a programme on Channel 5 last night about the great wave of 1607.

[@TheHistoryChap]

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[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Merci.

[@develyntwocentshenderson5739]

my mom lived through the great hurricane of 1938 in great neck on long island. 15 years old and the big brave adults made this 15 year old go out to shut the garage doors in these raging winds only to have them rip the doors out of her hands.. .. . some of the stories she remembered from that.. a man who had bought a barometer a day or so before and returned it to the store because he thought it was defective; the pressure was so low. a man running from the ocean waves carrying his child. the waves took his child away and he never saw him again.

[@nicholastracy7494]

Excellent account!

[@TheHistoryChap]

Many thanks.

[@navelriver]

I had read the stories of the Great Storm telling of the strange and frightening sound of the wind. What did the wind of the 1987 storm sound like? Perhaps it was even worse if the wind speeds were higher! Can anyone comment on the '87 wind? Such terrible and destructive storms that caused so much suffering but makes for fascinating reading.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Probably even more scary in 1703 seeing as they had never heard sound effects on TV, film etc. It would have been a novelty.

[@ThyCorylus]

The sailors serving on the Queen's ships would've spoke of those 24 hours for the rest of their lives. The account of those seaman on the Goodwin sands was harrowing. My dear old mum still tells me the story of how I slept through as a five month old! There was a fallen tree of huge girth and great age that test on her side in the park down the road that we used to play on. It lay there for decades before the council cleared it.

[@NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek]

An Epic Telling of an Epic Disaster!!!

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it.

[@David-hq4lq]

These are great history vids ! Was it this storm that cut Winchelsea off from the coast ?

[@TheHistoryChap]

Glad you liked it. Not sure about the answer to your question. Think it might have been earlier but I stand to be corrected.

[@ginaryan1627]

We here in Jersey endured a terrible storm in November last year (2023), with wind speeds up to 90mph. People were saying that it was worse than 1987. I'm convinced that if this had been 100 years ago, many would have died.

[@TheHistoryChap]

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[@DaveAinsworth-y8h]

Queen Anne is last Queen of England and Scotland when both countries where not united, Queen Anne is first Queen of UK.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Technically the united kingdowm of Scotland and England was called Great Britain. Became UK in 1801 when GB unified with Ireland (at the time).

[@DaveAinsworth-y8h]

In Deal used to have The Royal Marine School of Music while the barracks was in Walmer, both towns have Henry VIII Castles. The Walmer Castle is where the 1st Duke of Wellington was dead in it.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Thanks for sharing and adding to the story.

[@dannimac777]

Was this storm damage worse that that of 1607? I war reminded when seeing pamphlet illustrations of the 1607 flood included in this excellent article.

[@TheHistoryChap]

Yes, more widespread and certainly losses of life were greater (as well as those Royal Navy ships)

[@davidcarr7436]

Yikes! London was probably still recovering from the great fire only 41 years previously.

[@TheHistoryChap]

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[@davidcarr7436]

@TheHistoryChap always a pleasure to listen,, Chris.

[@ianbell5611]

Very good.

[@TheHistoryChap]

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[@R08Tam]

Fascinating stuff

[@vladvostok1723]

THXXXX CHAPEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TheHistoryChap]

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[@antonyberry1632]

1987 storm was up north aswell

[@TheHistoryChap]

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