Comments by "Alex" (@Alex-cw3rz) on "Naval Engines - Rotate that shaft!" video.

  1. Great video as always, however you did make two errors, firstly Steam locomotives were around before Steam warships. Secondly the first Ocean going Steam powered warship was the 20 gun PS Rising Star built in 1822 for Thomas Cochrane when he was Admiral of the Brazilian navy, it was never used in action as the war was almost over, it had an interesting design of internal paddle wheels to protect them a bit more from cannon fire. The first Steam warship to participate in combat was the Karteria commissioned in 1826 and first saw combat in 1827 in which it was highly effective. This again involves Cohrane, he and another British naval officer Frank Abney Hastings, were employed by the Greek government in their independence movenment against the ottomans. They set out a plan to build 6 Steam warships and buy two old 74 gun ship of the lines and razee them to become heavy frigates, this plus the rest of the Greek fleet was seen as good enough to take on the ottoman navy. This was very ambitious and in the end only 1 steamship was delivered and they got two heavy Frigates built in the US rather than Razeeing a 74, but due to major corruption in the end the Greeks could only get 1 Frigate. The Steamship although only having 8 x 68 pounder guns proved to be brilliant, using the power plants Steam to create heated shot and a method developed by Hastings to stop any barrel explosions, meant that it was highly effective and destroyed quite a number of ships even when the Greek side was outnumbered in the battle.
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