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Shipwrecks Britain's Sunken History
shipwrecks britain s sunken history
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TV shows
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3
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4.5 GB
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Sept. 25, 2021, 9:12 a.m.
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Ravenwilde
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Maritime historian Dr Sam Willis looks at how and why the shipwreck came to loom so large in British history. Home Waters to High Seas Shipwrecks are the nightmare we have forgotten - the price Britain paid for ruling the waves from an island surrounded by treacherous rocks. The result is a coastline that is home to the world's highest concentration of sunken ships. But shipwrecks also changed the course of British history, helped shape our national character and drove innovations in seafaring technology, as well as gripping our imagination. Dr Willis begins with the embarrassing story of the top-heavy Mary Rose, the freak wrecking of the Spanish Armada and the terrifying real-life disasters at sea that inspired two of the greatest of all castaway tales - Shakespeare's The Tempest and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. A World Turned Upside Down Mutiny, murder and mayhem on the high seas as Sam takes the story of shipwrecks into the Georgian age when Britain first began to rule the waves. But with maritime trade driving the whole enterprise, disasters at sea imperilled all this. As key colonies were established and new territories conquered, the great sailing ships became symbols of the power of the Georgian state - and the shipwreck was to be its Achilles' heel. By literally turning this world upside down, mutinous sailors, rebellious slaves and murderous wreckers threatened to undermine Britain's ambitions and jeopardise its imperial venture. Civilising the Sea The terrible toll taken by shipwrecks was such that in the winter of 1820 some 20,000 seaman lost their lives in the North Sea alone. Dr Willis tells the stirring story of how the Victorians were finally driven into action, finding various ingenious solutions - from rockets that could fire rescue lines aboard stricken vessels to lifejackets, lifeboats and the Plimsoll Line, which outlawed overloading. In Africa, he traces the legend of the Birkenhead Drill - the origin of 'women and children first'. Decorum even in disaster was the new Victorian way and it was conspicuously on hand to turn history's most iconic shipwreck - Titanic - into a tragic monument to British restraint
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BBC Shipwrecks Britains Sunken History 1of3 Home Waters to High Seas.mkv
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BBC Shipwrecks Britains Sunken History 2of3 A World Turned Upside Down.mkv
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BBC Shipwrecks Britains Sunken History 3of3 Civilising the Sea.mkv
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