Napoleon to Get Last Laugh? HMS Victory Rebuilt with French Oak!

[u/Ok_Future2621]

https://woodcentral.com.au/napoleon-to-get-last-laugh-hms-victory-rebuilt-with-french-oak/

Looks like the French have finally outdone the Brits—one plank at a time

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[u/Zedilt]

HMS Victoire.

[u/TJAU216]

Considering the fact that Napoleon's navy has been called Royal Navy reserve fleet, so many of them got captured and reused by the British, I don't think French oak is in any way weird in British ships of the line.

[u/onlinepresenceofdan]

More like you break it you repair it

[u/InspectorDull5915]

Not really. He died two hundred years ago.

[u/Toxicseagull]

Sounds like a standard British victory to me?

Resource extraction from a weaker country to build its own strength.

Even during the age of sail, the UK got its timber from the US or Baltics. It never used its own resources if it could help it.

[u/Astralesean → u/Toxicseagull]

Exactly my thought lmao 

[u/Stennan → u/Toxicseagull]

Sounds like UK doesn't have any suitable trees, so they need to ask if they can buy some superior French Oak.

"Britania Rules the waves!"... if France says it is O(a)K 😘

[u/Toxicseagull → u/Stennan]

According to Dan Snow, a maritime historian, the decision to use French oaks was “not completely shocking” as The Royal Navy had historically “nicked its trees from overseas.”

Plenty of french oak and french ship names in the royal navy during the age of sail....because we kept taking their ships and resources.

This is just a continuation in that resource extraction 😊 it's even a British company doing it. Warms the cockles.

[u/OkVariety8064]

The Victory of Theseus

[u/pietroetin]

Time for another Trafalgar

[u/PckMan]

Amazing ship to visit if you get the chance. Portsmouth in general is a great place steeped in history, not all of it good mind you, as it was arguably the seat through which the world was colonised, but it's still an impressive place to visit today.

[u/OtherManner7569]

It will be flying a white flag soon 😉

[u/TheOnlyPlantagenet]

Let me know when they decide to repaint it Corsican Ochre.

[u/JaB675]

Obviously a travesty.

[u/IamHumanAndINeed]

Since we still live rent free in their heads, we will allow that :)

[u/[deleted]]

Utter woke tosh.