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The Boats That Built Britain (BBC)

History, Technology Documentary hosted by Tom Cunliffe, published by BBC in 2010 - English narration





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Sailor and writer Tom Cunliffe takes a voyage through the history of British seafaring and puts some of the vessels featured in the programme through their paces.


1) The Matthew
No ship has ever made a more important discovery than the Matthew. In 1497, explorer John Cabot left Bristol on this little boat and 3,000 miles later landed in what we now know is North America. His discovery would change Britain and the world forever.
Sailor and writer Tom Cunliffe sails the Matthew for himself and finds out just how this incredible little boat made a journey into the unknown and came back to tell the story.

2) The Pickle
HMS Pickle is the unsung hero of the British navy. In 1805 Britain had just won the most significant sea battle in history, Trafalgar. But how to get the message home to an expectant nation? Enter the Pickle, the smallest ship in the fleet, a little boat with a revolutionary new design that beat her bigger rivals back to Britain to deliver the news.
Sailor and writer Tom Cunliffe sets out in the Pickle and tells the story of a boat that, against all the odds, delivered the most important news in Britain's maritime history.

3) The Phoenix
The square rigger is arguably the most important vehicle in history. In the 19th century these boats transported finished goods and raw materials all over the world, transforming Britain from a second-rate European power into the richest and most powerful nation on earth.
Sailor and writer Tom Cunliffe sets out on the Phoenix, a plank-perfect square rigger, to discover just how these incredible boats changed Britain and the world forever.

4) The Reaper
The Reaper is the biggest sailing lugger ever to fish the seas. Seventy feet long and capable of pulling in ten tonnes of herring in a single haul, the Reaper was an awesome beast that fed Britain at a time when she needed it most.
Sailor and writer Tom Cunliffe sails her for himself and finds out just how this giant of the seas came about.

5) The Pilot Cutter
Many consider the Bristol Channel pilot cutter to be the finest sailing boat design ever. Fast, seaworthy and beautiful to behold, the pilot cutter is the perfect combination of form and function - a thoroughbred perfectly adapted to a life in one of the Britain's most treacherous stretches of water. Sailor and writer Tom Cunliffe explores the life of the pilots and sails a perfectly restored cutter to find out just what drove these men and their wonderful machines.

6) The LCVP
Looking more like a skip than a boat, the LCVP, or Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, won't win any prizes for beauty. Yet the craft did more to win World War Two than any other piece of machinery. There were once over 20,000 of these little boats, but only a handful remain. Sailor and writer Tom Cunliffe puts one of them through its paces and finds out how the boat was developed for one momentous day in 1944.

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Technical Specs
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1) HD Version
* Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4.1
* Video Bitrate: CRF 20 (~6011Kbps)
* Video Resolution: 1920x1080
* Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
* Frames Per Second: 25
* Audio Codec: AAC-LC
* Audio Bitrate: Q=0.5 VBR 48KHz (~160Kbps)
* Audio Channels: 2
* Run-Time: 29 mins
* Number Of Parts: 6
* Part Size: 1.27 GB (average)
* Source: HDTV (upscaled)
* Encoded by: JungleBoy

2) SD Version
* Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L3.1
* Video Bitrate: 1800 kbps
* Video Resolution: 832x468
* Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
* Frames Per Second: 25 FPS
* Audio Codec: AC3
* Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s CBR 48KHz
* Audio Streams: 2ch
* Audio Languages: English
* RunTime Per Part: 29mins
* Number Of Parts: 6
* Part Size: 400 MB
* Subtitles: English
* Source: PDTV
* Encoded by: JungleBoy



Links
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1) Further Information

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00scc5w

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