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The British Royal Navy From 18 Century

The document discusses ships of the British Royal Navy in the 18th century. It describes how under Queen Elizabeth I, England became a powerful naval empire. By the 18th century, Britain had the largest empire in the world. Ships like Victory, Lord Nelson's flagship from the 1800s, were ornately decorated. They relied on sails for propulsion rather than steam engines. The document also discusses Lord Nelson, who lost an arm and eye in battle. Amputation was commonly used to treat injuries at sea. It describes Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar aboard Victory in 1805.

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The British Royal Navy From 18 Century

The document discusses ships of the British Royal Navy in the 18th century. It describes how under Queen Elizabeth I, England became a powerful naval empire. By the 18th century, Britain had the largest empire in the world. Ships like Victory, Lord Nelson's flagship from the 1800s, were ornately decorated. They relied on sails for propulsion rather than steam engines. The document also discusses Lord Nelson, who lost an arm and eye in battle. Amputation was commonly used to treat injuries at sea. It describes Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar aboard Victory in 1805.

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The British Royal Navy from 18th century.

A young Captain Horatio Nelson Painting by MotionAge Designs


During the last centuries the England and Great Britain they had a great grow in its Navy,
specially during the government of Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth I, she made of England
the most feared empire of the world, England and many British ships, they started to sail
around the world and own the seas, it was in the 16th and 17th century, in the 18th Britannia
was the biggest empire in the world, they had many colonies around the world, the own
United States of America it was a British Colonie, which it had your independence in 1776.

How were the ships from 18th century on the Royal Navy ?

At this time the Royal Navy enjoyed ships with a lot of ornaments, Victory the Lord Nelson’s
Flagship she’s a own example of this, Victory we are a lot of lucky, she’s still with us, she is 247
years old and she’s in a permanent dry dock in honor of the Lord Nelson, Admiral 1st Viscount
Lord Horatio Nelson, Lord Nelson was a great British man and also hero of the Great Britain.

Public domain image: H.M.S.VICTORY the oldest warship in the world.

How you can see, Victory she has many ornaments, it was a lot of common between the ships
from this time, remember 18th century there wasn’t steam engines like 20th century, these
ships their propulsion were their sails, Victory she was one of the most powerful ships of her
time, she’s a 1st rate ship, there would be many types of these ships, there would be Galleons,
2nd rates, and also of course frigates, one of these examples it’s the USS Constitution, she’s
also with us, but different of the Victory she can sail.

The technology and health care of the ships from 18th century and early years from 19th
century.

Some little curiosities about Lord Nelson and the health care of this time did you know ? About
the Lord Nelson's body, Lord Nelson he didn’t have one of his arms, the right arm, he also
didn't have one of his eyes, he lost these parts during battle, but about the arm, why did he
lost the arm ?

So Lord Nelson he was a man from 18th century and early years from 19th century when he
died in 1805 during the Battle of Trafalgar, when you lost some part of his body or you broke
your arm for an example at sea, the only way it was the amputation of the member, it was the
way to Lord Nelson.

Also when you died at sea at this time, the burial it was at sea, but not to Lord Nelson, when
he died in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, his body it was placed in a barrel of alcohol and took
again to old England where he was buried.

How I said, at this time if you lost some part of your body during the battle the only way it was
the amputation, sometimes always ask me about it, if the "wooden leg" was it real ? Yes it was
real, many sailors had these legs, as well as "hook hand" as I said if you lost some part of your
body at this time the amputation it would be the way and if you lost the leg for an example,
you'd win a beautiful and new wooden leg.

How did Lord Nelson die in the Battle of Trafalgar ?

The death of Lord Nelson on the decks of his flagship on October 21st, 1805 during the Battle
of Trafalgar when the British convoy decimated the Napoleon's convoy, a few minutes of the
end of the battle Lord Nelson was hit by a shot from a French sailor, Lord Nelson passed away
some hours after the end of the battle on his flagship the almighty H.M.S.VICTORY, his body it
was clean and placed on a barrel of rum, and taken to England again by his own ship the
H.M.S.VICTORY, where Lord Nelson was buried with the highest honor possible, his flagship
the H.M.S.VICTORY she's still with us, and she's the oldest ship in the world with 247 years old,
and also in England in London there's a Statue of him in the Trafalgar Square.

The nautical technology of the ships from this time.

At this time of course we didn’t have computers and other things to help us, and of course
we’d use the old and reliable compass and maps to help us to sail.
Something very curious about the speed of the ships, the ship’s speed it’s also known as
“knots” but why knots ? And not miles or kilometers ?

Why is a ship’s speed measured in knots ?

Ancient mariners used to gauge how fast their ship was moving by throwing a piece of wood or
other floatable object over the vessel’s bow then counting the amount of time that elapsed
before its stern passed the object. This method was known as a Dutchman’s log. By the late
16th century, sailors had begun using a chip log to measure speed. In this method, knots were
tied at uniform intervals in a length of rope and then one end of the rope, with a pie-slice-
shape piece of wood (or “chip”) attached to it, was tossed behind the ship. As the vessel
moved forward, the line of rope was allowed to roll out freely for a specific amount of time,
which was typically tabulated with an hourglass. Afterward, the number of knots that had gone
over the ship’s stern was counted and used in calculating the vessel’s speed. A knot came to
mean one nautical mile per hour. Therefore, a ship traveling at 15 knots could go 15 nautical
miles per hour.

For a number of years, there was disagreement among various nations about the exact
measurement of a nautical mile, which is based on the Earth’s circumference. In 1929, the
international nautical mile was standardized at 6,076 feet; it was adopted by the United States
in 1954. A nautical mile is different from a mile on land, which is based on walking distance.
The Romans first defined a land mile as 1,000 paces or pairs of steps; it was set at its current
measurement of 5,280 feet by Queen Elizabeth I in 1593.

The Baroque period it was with many ornaments, from the Palaces even the ships, and even
the uniforms of the Royal Navy.

During the Napoleonic wars Victory and Lord Nelson they had an important mission, protect
the England from Napoleon, Napoleon he had a historical impact in many nations, USA, Brazil,
Portugal, Spain and other nations, that’s why Napoleon it’s a lot of important to understand
the 19th and 20th centuries, Napoleon and the Napoleonic wars revolutionary the art of the
war with their ships and etc....

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