Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "HMS Glatton - Guide 288" video.

  1. Glatton was an appropriate name for a ship defined by her armament. The HMS Glatton of 1795 was commanded by the "Carronade Mad" Henry Trollope, with legendary results as she destroyed an entire French squadron. "HMS Glatton was a 56-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. Wells & Co. of Blackwell launched her on 29 November 1792 for the British East India Company (EIC) as the East Indiaman Glatton. The Royal Navy bought her in 1795 and converted her into a warship. Glatton was unusual in that for a time she was the only ship-of-the-line that the Royal Navy had armed exclusively with carronades. Glatton was originally armed with twenty-eight 68-pounder carronades on the lower deck and twenty-eight 42-pounder carronades on her upper deck. All were non-recoil, which is to say that they were fixed to the deck. Within a month 32-pounder carronades replaced the 42-pounders. Under Trollope, Glatton first served in the English Channel where she engaged a French squadron on 15 July 1796. The French squadron consisted of a 50-gun ship, five frigates (two of 36 guns and three of 28), a brig, and a cutter. Glatton drove the French vessels into Flushing, having lost only two men wounded, one of whom died later, and despite having at times been surrounded by the enemy and exchanging fire at less than 20 yards." Trollope received a knighthood
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  2. The British took ownership of the ships under the Right of Angary, which permits a belligerent to seize neutral property if reasonable compensation is offered "Angary (Lat. jus angariae; Fr. droit d'angarie; Ger. Angarie; from the Gr. ἀγγαρεία, angareia, "the office of an ἄγγαρος (courier or messenger)") is the name given to the right of a belligerent (most commonly, a government or other party in conflict) to seize and apply, for the purposes of war or to prevent the enemy from doing so, any kind of property on belligerent territory including what may belong to subjects or citizens of a neutral state. Article 53 of the Regulations respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, annexed to the Hague Convention of 1899 on the same subject, provides that railway plant, land telegraphs, telephones, steamers and other ships (other than such as are governed by maritime law), though belonging to companies or private persons, may be used for military operations but "must be restored at the conclusion of peace and indemnities paid for them." Article 54 adds that "the plant of railways coming from neutral states, whether the property of those states or of companies or private persons, shall be sent back to them as soon as possible." The articles seem to sanction the right of angary against neutral property and to limit it as against both belligerent and neutral property. It may be considered, however, that the right to use implies as wide a range of contingencies as the "necessity of war" can be made to cover "
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  3. Blame it on 1) Corruption in the yards 2) Corruption in the Supervisor of Shipbuilding at each yard, a RN officer supposedly ensuring the ships were built to the RN's standards
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  4.  @spamhonx56  Well, just to whet your appetite, she fought at Copenhagen and her skipper received a commendation from Nelson himself. Who was he? Captain William "Breadfruit" Bligh
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  5.  @HighlanderNorth1  When Glatton's sister ship, HMS Gordon's magazine was inspected it was found that instead of the specified 5 inches of cork insulation covered with 3/4 inch of wood, there was folded up newspapers under the wood. Sure sounds like corruption to me, by 1) The shipyard workers 2) The shipyard foremen and management, who were supposed to supervise the work and were legally bound to insure it was done as specified in the contract 3) The yard's Supervisor of Shipbuilding and his staff, who were supposed to represent the Admiralty and monitor the work. "A Court of Enquiry held immediately afterwards found that the explosion had occurred in the midships 6-inch magazine situated between the boiler and engine rooms. The cause was more difficult to establish, but the Court did note that the stokers were in the habit of piling the red-hot clinker and ashes from the boilers against the bulkhead directly adjoining the magazine to cool down before they were sent up the ash ejector. The magazine was well insulated with 5 inches (13 cm) of cork, covered by wood planking .75 inches (1.9 cm) thick and provided with special cooling equipment so it was not likely that the cordite had spontaneously combusted. The magazine of Glatton's sister ship Gorgon was emptied and examined. The red lead paint on the bulkhead was blistered beneath the lagging and tests at the National Physical Laboratory demonstrated that it had been subject to temperatures of at least 400 °F (204 °C). Recorded temperatures inside the magazine did not exceed 83 °F (28 °C) and a test of red-hot ashes was inconclusive as the temperature in the lagging only reached 70 °F (21 °C) with occasional hot spots of 150 °F (66 °C). Other tests did reveal that the cork could give off flammable fumes under high heat and pressurized air. While not entirely satisfied with this conclusion it found in April 1919 that "The slow combustion of the cork lagging of the 6-inch midship magazine of the Glatton led to the ignition of the magazine and then to the ignition of the cordite in it and so caused the explosion." As a precaution, Gorgon's lagging was stripped out and replaced with silicate wool, revealing the real cause. Part of the cork was missing and folded newspapers were found in the empty space which were left there by the dockyard workers during construction. Furthermore, a number of rivets were entirely missing which meant that 0.5 inches (12.7 mm) holes were present, which could have allowed the hot ashes to ignite the newspapers. The forced-draught pressure in the boiler room would have supplied air through the rivet holes, causing the cork to give off flammable gases, and eventually ignite the cordite charges.
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  6. One wonders if Mings didn't paint her silhouette on the bridge wings
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  7.  @HighlanderNorth1  What sort of idiot would think that paper is an adequate insulating material for a magazine? I'm sure the RN specified asbestos, rock wool or a similar material as the insulating material
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  8. Drach said she is under part of the Dover ferry terminal
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  9. "Within a month 32-pounder carronades replaced the 42-pounders." Note that the RN's first rates were authorized 42 pounder long guns, but in practice carried 32 pounders. as the smaller weapon was handier to use in battle. Why Glatton kept her 68 pounder carronades but changed to 32 pounders on the upper deck is a mystery. Maybe the RN just didn't like 42 pound anythings
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  10. If not a joke, you need glasses. It's the name of a town
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  11.  @williambrasky3891  Well, consider that Sir Henry's wife became Lady Trollope when he was knighted, which sounds like a second rate porn starlet
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