Comments by "Alex" (@Alex-cw3rz) on "The Crimean Naval War at Sea - Battleships, Bombardments and the Black Sea" video.

  1. 8:38 Interesting fact although it may seem a bit crazy to ask Cochrane most famous for his actions during the Napoleonic war to plan an attack with a fleet increasingly reliant on steam power. He was actually very forward thinking when he was Admiral of the Brazilian navy he had constructed the first Ocean going Steam powered warships and the first cross the Atlantic, which was the 20 gun PS Rising Star commissioned in 1822. 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. Not content with that as Admiral of the Greek Navy, one of his ships was the first ever Steam warship to participate in combat which 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, while employed by the Greek navy set out a plan to build 6 Steam warships and razee two 74 gun ship of the line to form the core of the Greek fleet. This was at a time no other navy had 1 ocean going Steam warship. Let alone 6. In the end only 1 Steam warship arrived and instead of razeeing 2 74 gun ships of the line, they had their heavy frigates built in the USA. Due to the contacts in the USA spending most of the money on themselves the Greeks only received one Frigate.
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