Channel 5 have a new doc about the Royal Navy and the trailer opens with โ€œthe Royal Navy has never been busierโ€โ€ฆnow friends I am not a historian, but could one put forward a suggestion of one of the World Wars for consideration

March 29, 2026 - 17:23 UTC

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Because there are less ships, more overcrowding.
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Don't worry ,
We're covered!
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Aye youโ€™d think the phone must have been ringing off the hook between 1914-1918 and 1939-1945?
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what ships are working going to be a lot busier as government going to sell off 3 that actually work to Uruguay
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Having only 8 boats allocated to 80 tasks will do that
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And they made the Battle of the Atlantic to be some big thing. Psh.
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We famously ran a global empire on infantry and messenger pigeons alone - oceans are wet and messy and we've never been fond of them.
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Battle of Trafalgar? Piece of piss.
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maybe someone should tell them about the evacuation of Crete...or the hunt for The Bismarck...The Night action off Cape Matapan...The Clash at the Falklands in WW1 oh and that little thing called...JUTLAND!
Mr.N Naval Historian as a lifelong hobby!
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Blockading the French was so easy back in the days of sail.
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Well, one of them, yes. The t'other not so much.
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Tbf, theyโ€™re probably still trying to locate and destroy evidence pertaining to the many crimes of that Andy Battenburg guy who flew a chopper or two during the Maggie Thatcher Falklands Farce!
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Any relation to the cake
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Yeah they were being lazy as hell at Trafalgar.
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HMS Victory : Hold my rum
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This is bait
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Not forgetting the days of Nelson.
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Or basically the period from 1750 to 1815? Lotta ships in that navy in that periodโ€ฆ
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Surprisingly little action during the first one but the second was a doozy.
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Nelson kept'em pretty damned busy too, off Trafalgar, 1805
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Napoleonic wars?
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Also, back when you had a much bigger empire. Defeating Napoleon. Spanish Armada. Both the Atlantic & Pacific coasts of northern North America. & the Caribbean. & India & other chunks of Asia. & Australia & New Zealand. Parts of Africa.
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Well thereโ€™s a case to be made that back then many hands (on decks, of many ships) made light work, whereas now we only have a dozen ships which need about six weeksโ€™ notice before being able to leave portโ€ฆ
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The Spanish armada has thoughts.
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Thatโ€™s what happens when you only have 6 sailors and a pedalo
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Maybe if they were busier it wouldn't have taken 6 years
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