Documentaries of interest to MSW Members - moved by moderator

[Kevin]

This thread is for shortcuts to programmes of interest

 

Please drop a shortcut to a programme and the title of the programme to which it refers

 

 

The first one is The Ghosts of the Mary Rose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCmuMQLBoog

 

Battle Stations - H.M.S. Victory

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRXgMcyWcFU

Edited November 19, 2014 by Kevin

[qwerty2008]

I came across the Battle Stations - H.M.S. Victory documentary onYouTube abought a week ago and really enjoyed it.

 

[edmay]

Hello Kevin from Somerset, Many thanks for the movies,helps to put reseach in perspective,very enjoyable and interesting,Edwin ex Liverpool.

[Kevin]

A Herculean Task Scapa Flow Reel 1924

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/a-herculean-task-scapa-flow-reel

Edited April 28, 2013 by Kevin

[Kevin]

The Great Pirate Ships : Documentary³

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-bx18td1QA

[Kevin]

For anyone interested

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22461359

 

[DSiemens]

I'll put this up for all the SIB builders out there. 

 

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I was afraid that wouldn't work.  Here's a link.  

 

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/steady_as_she_goes#

Edited May 15, 2013 by DSiemens

[BareHook]

Has anyone seen Kon Tiki, the original or remake? Don't have a link, but pretty interesting story, the book is worth reading as well.

 

Ken

[Anja]

Hello Ken,

 

I haven't seen the film or read the book. But it sure must have been an impressive and dangerous journey.

 

This is the link to the official movie trailer. Lenght of the video is 2:15.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=uwBoFAUBEJg&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DuwBoFAUBEJg

 

This is the link to 'The Tangaroa Expedition' (The Kon-Tiki Expedition) 2012 documentary. Lenght of the bideo is 52:29.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=29waAjmbO2w&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D29waAjmbO2w

 

This is a link to 'Kon-Tiki 1947'. It has English commentary, but a Russian commentator speaks through it. Lenght of the video is 58:13.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=JGBHIFsn2K8&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJGBHIFsn2K8

 

And last a link which brings you to the Kon-Tiki museum in Oslo, Norway. http://www.kon-tiki.no/

 

Enjoy!

 

Anja

[BareHook]

One intersting point, "various experts" (can't recall specific) were trying to convince them to use dried balsa logs instead of freshly cut wet wood for increased bouyancy and cable instead of natural fiber lashings. If they had done so, the raft would have torn its self apart and possibly sunk. The natural moisure of the uncured balsa acted as a repellent to sea water absorbing into the wood and the lashings buried themselves into the wood where they were protected from the elements.

 

Ken

[Kevin]

reposted 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-22447700

 

 

and 

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-21745553

 

 

Reunion at Loch Ewe for Arctic Convoys veterans Edited May 16, 2013 by Kevin

[figuerres]

One intersting point, "various experts" (can't recall specific) were trying to convince them to use dried balsa logs instead of freshly cut wet wood for increased bouyancy and cable instead of natural fiber lashings. If they had done so, the raft would have torn its self apart and possibly sunk. The natural moisure of the uncured balsa acted as a repellent to sea water absorbing into the wood and the lashings buried themselves into the wood where they were protected from the elements.

 

Ken

 

knowing how soft balsa is I picture a metal cable as acting like a saw with the flexing at sea ...

[John Paul Jones]

If it be tall ships ye are wanting to see, ye come to the right place, Argh!  This is the documentary, Into The Deep: America, Whaling and the World. A haunting, epic adventure of the SS ESSEX, Lost at sea in the 1820's during a Whale Expedition in the Pacific, and its multi-year journey to return home.  This is the story that Herman Melville based Moby Dick "The Whale" on.

 

 

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Edited June 8, 2013 by John Paul Jones

[st george]

Great thread Kevin, thanks for starting it.

[Kevin]

How to Build A Nuclear Submarine (Full)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=_ODDjsK0BOg&feature=endscreen

[Timmo]

If it be tall ships ye are wanting to see, ye come to the right place, Argh!  This is the documentary, Into The Deep: America, Whaling and the World. A haunting, epic adventure of the SS ESSEX, Lost at sea in the 1820's during a Whale Expedition in the Pacific, and its multi-year journey to return home.  This is the story that Herman Melville based Moby Dick "The Whale" on.

 

 

 <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BFkL98QXjqc?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Off the topic with a book recommendation but I'd highly recommend 'in the heart of the sea' by Nathaniel Philbrick. It's a very thorough but readable account of the Essex's Demi's and survivors' subsequent struggle with each other and the elements at sea. Gripping stuff.

[Kevin]

The Sinking Of An Aircraft Carrier

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk2iFskb124

[Kevin]

just watched this

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04lss20/swallowed-by-the-sea-ancient-egypts-greatest-lost-city

 

Swallowed by the Sea: Ancient Egypt's Greatest Lost City

Documentary following a team of maritime archaeologists as they uncover the remarkable lost city of Heracleion, consumed by the sea and forgotten for over two thousand years.