Re: England Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty


"Chris Rockcliffe" <chrisrockcliffe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Could we even build a ship like the Victory today even using the
> same materials if we could get them - do the skills any longer exist to
use
> timber structurally in the same way? Different world.

Yes.

There's a reproduction frigate tied up in Whitby harbour at the moment.
When 'Seafest' is on in Scarborough they have folk music concerts in the
ship. It's an entertaining way to get some of the atmosphere of the time
:-)

Victory still exists, as do the plans and the dockyard records of the
building.

The internal structure of Victory has been rebuilt twice in the last two
hundred years, and while the last rebuilding half a century ago wasn't done
terribly well it was certainly done.

Large wooden structures are complicated and expensive to build but people
have never stopped building them.

Despite lots of people saying different there are no 'lost arts', people
can still make most of this stuff.

The problem is that skilled labour is now much more expensive than it was
and people don't want to pay.

At the end of this month there's a 'Reenactors Market' in Coventry where
there will be people who'll make just about anything you want, for a price.

--
William Black

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.
--
William Black

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.


.

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