Comments by "Alex" (@Alex-cw3rz) on "Drach's Top 5 Best Engineered Ships - Durability, Viability, Excellence" video.

  1. This made me so sad that SS Great Eastern was not preserved
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  2. 31:57 another great example is the revolutionary designs in the six frigates of the USA. One year later were already outclassed in most aspects by HMS Endymion. When Chessapeake and President were captured only around 2 decades after they were built, all the info about them was how outdated they were, excessive stern overhang, how surprisingly slow the vessels were and that's 2 decades after these revolutionary ships were launched although they did say they had strong hulls, even the rebuild of HMS President after the original had to be replaced was stated as being done as a propaganda tool rather than any testament to the design. Whereas HMS Victory's lines were being used to build a new class of 1st rate ships of the line almost half a century later. When the new HMS President was built they had only launched 2 of the nine Caledonia class. The class that was made from HMS Endymion, the ship that actually captured President, had it's lines taken to create the Severn class, due to it's great charactistics (being the fastest sailing ship in the Royal Navy) and they had all been broken up or sold before the Caledonia class had all been built. That is how impressive Victory was.
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