Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "USS Constitution - That Good or Just Lucky? (Special)" video.

  1. Let's consider the numbers we're talking about (ships that served 1812-1815) Constitution and her sisters 4 units Endymion Class 6 units Razee's 6 units Out of well over 100 light frigates (6th rates - 12 pounders), heavy frigates (5th rates - 18 pounders) and super frigates - pocket ships of the line" - (4th rates- 24 pounders) in the Royal Navy So the likelihood of them encountering each other was small. Norman Friedman has pointed out in several studies that building ships to "match" each other is generally folly as history shows they never end up sighting, let alone fighting, one another (Dunkerques vs Deutschlands) Which means that the odds were greatly in favor of the Constitution encountering an inferior British ship. That's not luck, that's a clear understanding of each nation's position and building the vessels to match And, it should be noted that since the British felt they had to build their own super frigates and create razees argues that the American ships were "that good"
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  2. Wait a second, the most famous razee of them all, HMS Indefatigable, was cut down and operational before the American vessels were even launched. So, I question if the original three were cut down in response to the Americans, although I'll buy the last three were replies to the American vessels. "Three 64-gun ships were cut down (razeed) in 1794 into 44-gun frigates. The most successful was HMS  which was commanded by Sir Edward Pellew.
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