Kublai Khans Lost Fleet

[EdWingfield]

In August 1281 Khubilai Khan, the Mongol Emperor, launched a 4,400-strong armada to conquer Japan. However, the fleet simply disappeared, its fate unknown. This documentary traces one man's quest to find the lost fleet. Through underwater exploration and forensic analysis he solves the riddle that has remained unanswered for 700 years: how did the largest naval force the world would see until D-Day vanish overnight?

tonight 20.00 ch 5

 

[Kilter]

Sounds fascinating...only problem is that we can't get Ch5! Damn!

 

[chrisc]

Me neither ,we require a full report tomorrow.

 

[Searush]

Oh, B*gger, and I thought I had got away with that little navigation slip 500 years ago!

 

[Parsonsheath]

If your grasp of dating is that bad I think we can blame it all on your navigation skills!

 

[Gordonmc]

Kamikaze?

 

[Mirelle]

Yes, exactly. The "Divine Wind" that scattered the Mongol fleet was the original Kamikaze.

cf the Protestant Wind in British History!

 

[capt_courageous]

Maybe they were prototype Bavarias. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif Or Sunsail out team building.

 

[reginaldon]

Sounds fascinating...only problem is that we can't get Ch5! Damn!
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I thought it was only East Kent that couldn't get Ch 5 on terrestial TV

 

[thalassa]

I can see the troll coming... they relied on traditional navigation techniques...their GPS was down....the batteries from the backup G'ar-M'in were flat.... They left their sextants at home...
Couldn't update their charts in time with the elaborate Kangxi script...

 

[bilbobaggins]

Wrong anchors.....

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[Norman_E]

I presume his ships went "down to a sunless sea".

(With apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

 

[ianabc]

1421 The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies

Ships 500 feet long,

"Printing was unknown in Europe, hundreds of printed novels could be bought from Beijing market stalls" 30 years before Gutenberg

"Some of he internal compartments could also be partially flooded to act as tanks for the trained sea otters used for fishing"

"Twenty-six thousand guests were entertained in Bejing where they ate a ten course banquet served on dishes of the finest porcelain; a mere six hundred guests attended Henry's nuptials and they were served stockfish (salted cod) on rounds of stale bread that acted as plates. Catherine de Valois wore neither knickers nor stockings at her wedding. Zhi Di's favourite concubine was clad in the finest silks ...."

A great read.

 

[Slow_boat]

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I thought it was only East Kent that couldn't get Ch 5 on terrestial TV

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No, I can't get Ch 5 either, or broadband. And that's in North Buckinghamshire. A set top box would be pointless.

 

[Sea Devil]

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1421 The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies


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I agree - one of the best books I have read in ages - it now lives in the boat - no greater honour... AND they discovered America - and Columbus used their charts for his voyage AND they navigated by the stars AND they did it without gps AND they left messages... brilliant book - really interesting and puts the achievements of European explorers into a more interesting context..

Michael

 

[thalassa]

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Wrong anchors.....

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Junk anchors !

 

[bilbobaggins]

Re: Kublai Khans Lost Fleet and ROCNA

Don't start!

The loss of the whole Great Emperor's Grand Fleet was due entirely to the ZeroeHeroe river fishermen of Ha' Mh Bhul knowing not how to manage their chartered leaky craft in foreign seas and strange weathers.

I'm rooting out a copy of a survey carried out jointly by 'Plactical Bo' Hohner' and 'Xiang Hi Times' of 1750 which shows clearly that the Republic Of China New Anchor - 'ROCNA' - designed and made in the people's drop-forges for centuries before the western devil white-eyes discovered trees, is far superior to anything ever made in the west....

....and I'll post it on here as soon as I find it under all the Chrissie prezzie wrapping paper....


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[thalassa]

Re: Kublai Khans Lost Fleet and ROCNA

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The loss of the whole Great Emperor's Grand Fleet was due entirely to the ZeroeHeroe river fishermen of Ha' Mh Bhul knowing not how to manage their chartered leaky craft in foreign seas and strange weathers.

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Nah!.... The wind died, distances were to great. They had to fire up the Old Iron Sail, and for the running of these they had to little fluid on board, since the Great Price Hike by KuBlairKhan. Centuries would pass, until the advent of Communism. Then they had proper Red diesel.