Hello from inside a tiny boat.

0:00 My next stop on the road trip is a little bit personal.

0:03 I’ve parked up in Scarborough on the coast of the North Riding of Yorkshire.

0:06 It’s one of the Great British seaside resorts,

0:09 which I’ll give you more context on when we head to Bridlington soon.

0:12 Set back slightly from the North Bay of Scarborough is Peasholm Park.

0:16 Each summer, there’s the sort of things you’d

0:18 expect from a park in a seaside town:

0:19 a bandstand for concerts, pedalos and rowing boats for rent,

0:23 a little putting green… And then there’s the Naval Warfare.

0:27 (waves lapping, birds chirruping) 7am.

0:31 All quiet in Scarborough.

0:33 And welcome to Peasholm Park.

0:37 When I was on holiday as a kid, I used to come here sometimes,

0:40 and the Naval Warfare at Peasholm Park was always this slightly mythical thing.

0:45 The posters advertise a sea battle in miniature, including fireworks.

0:49 And while I didn’t have a camcorder back in 1996,

0:52 someone else did, and they let me use their footage, thank you, John.

0:54 So, this is roughly what I would have seen as a kid.

0:57 Scale-model ships sailing around the lake,

0:59 pyrotechnics going off… [announcer] She’s well and truly outnumbered.

1:03 Even model planes flying overhead on wires, apparently dropping bombs.

1:07 (explosion) (crowd gasping) (explosion) Oh dear.

1:13 (explosion) As you can see,

1:15 she’s taken two direct hits there, and she is ablaze.

1:19 And a big fireworks finale.

1:22 (fireworks hissing, fizzing) And the most astonishing part of it all:

1:31 those ships are not remote-controlled.

1:34 To explain how that’s worked for nearly a century, I met up with Noah,

1:37 one of the park staff, and I got to go behind the scenes into the boatyard.

1:41 I’m properly excited about this, I saw the Naval Warfare when I was a kid.

1:45 Like, this is lovely!

1:45 Three of those boats are on a winch system, pulled on cables from the boatyard.

1:49 All the others… -They’re all manned.

1:52 Even them ones.

1:53 -Yeah.

1:54 Which, I think we’ll be able to get you in one.

1:58 -Ooh, okay.

2:00 -To try.

2:02 Yeah, that is definitely something I’d like to try, thank you very much.

2:06 But also, I don’t want to get in the way.

2:08 -Yes.

2:08 -He says, carefully setting up the camera shot and trying to angle it.

2:12 Like, I don’t want to get in the way.

2:13 You’ve got a show to put on.

2:14 Five of the boats have a crew member on board, one person per boat, hidden,

2:19 lying down inside, piloting the ship and setting

2:21 off the pyrotechnics that are right next to them.

2:24 And while I wasn’t going to be part of the show,

2:26 obviously… I was gonna get to try piloting one.

2:30 1927 it started, so… Oh, you’re coming up to the centenary then?

2:33 Yes.

2:33 I mean, when it first started, all the boats were pedal powered.

2:37 -Oh, right.

2:39 -And then...

2:41 The only time it stopped was for the Second World War and for COVID.

2:44 Yeah.

2:45 When they came back to the boats after the Second World War,

2:48 they weren’t damaged from the war.

2:50 They just weren’t maintained.

2:51 -Yeah.

2:52 So, they decided to replace the fleet and that’s

2:54 when the motors came in that they decided to use.

2:58 And now they’re all run by at least four car batteries.

3:01 So, those two ships are pulled out on cables?

3:04 Yeah.

3:05 -Those are the ones with people in them.

3:07 -People in them, yeah.

3:09 And there’s a rowing boat to take stuff out there, yep.

3:11 There’s a rowing boat.

3:12 Which looks very odd at that scale.

3:15 Like, that’s just a really big rowing boat all of a sudden.

3:17 -Hi, I’m Tom.

3:18 -Nice to meet you.

3:18 I’m Brandon.

3:19 -Brandon, and Richard?

3:20 -Richard.

3:21 Nice to meet you.

3:22 Hello, hello.

3:22 The first job for the day is to set out the winch cables.

3:25 They’re pulled all the way in after each show, so,

3:27 the first thing to do is get them out onto a reel.

3:33 We’re starting to get the nice silvery bit of cable visible...

3:37 -Mm-hm.

3:37 -...which is an indicator that bit’s never been in the water,

3:40 so, we’re getting to the end of the reel.

3:44 Those motors are probably 70 years old.

3:48 When any electrician looks at ’em,

3:50 they just think this is such old technology that we’ve got down here.

3:54 But it works.

3:55 But it works, yeah.

3:57 And you can fix it with regular parts and nothing special?

4:01 Pretty much so.

4:02 Just a bit of maintenance and just hope and pray.

4:05 Yeah, prayers.

4:06 That’s what we fix ’em with!

4:07 They take the cable reel out onto a rowing boat and pull it across the water.

4:17 Okay, uh, sorry, with apologies to Richard,

4:19 because he’s doing manual work over water

4:22 I couldn’t risk putting a microphone on him,

4:23 it might get knocked off, so, between the oars, the water,

4:27 and the ducks… (ducks quacking) …I’m gonna have to explain this one here.

4:36 They have three cables to lay out in a specific order, out from the boat shed,

4:40 round a pivot point on the shoreline, and then to each boat’s starting point.

4:44 We have a specific order that the cables come out in.

4:48 The British Pride is the one they’re bringing out now.

4:50 That will go to this pole that’s directly behind me.

4:54 And then it will go over towards the bridge.

4:57 This one’s the lowest one in the water, so, we have to put this out first,

5:00 ’cos you don’t want this to sit over the top of the other two.

5:03 Right, so the cables are at specific heights in the water?

5:06 They’re at different depths in the water, yeah, to prevent them from, you know,

5:09 you don’t want them rubbing on each other the whole time,

5:11 because over the course of, you know, let’s say 30 shows a year,

5:15 it’ll cause a lot of damage to them.

5:17 The reason they pivot the wires is so

5:19 they can have three boats moving in different directions,

5:22 all powered by the winches at the boat shed without any remote control needed.

5:26 Those boats actually only travel in a straight line,

5:28 forward and backward between their starting point and the pivot,

5:30 but with all the chaos going on and all the other boats,

5:33 the audience doesn’t spot that.

5:35 Noah here, who will be doing the special behind-the-scenes effects,

5:39 he has to operate the pulleys and do

5:42 all the switchboard for all the front effects,

5:43 and set the bombs off on the three boats.

5:46 We’ll talk about that switchboard in a moment.

5:48 First, at the other side of the lake,

5:50 they’ll just tie on the cable to the shore for now,

5:52 and only put it under tension just before the show when they move the boats out.

5:56 There’s going to tourists out there on pedalos until then.

5:58 Now, about that switchboard.

6:00 The switchboard, so...

6:03 we’ve got the submarine at the top.

6:05 You see everything’s labelled.

6:07 And we’ll put the effects on.

6:09 I mean, the amount of effects we have is pretty ridiculous.

6:12 And made in Yorkshire as well, which is nice.

6:14 Made in Yorkshire.

6:15 This is probably, 1930s maybe?

6:17 Yeah.

6:18 Everything here, really, I don’t know how well you can see it down there,

6:21 but they are the old engines that we’ve taken out of the boats.

6:24 Oh!

6:26 Since been replaced by mobility scooter engines.

6:29 That makes sense.

6:30 Mobility scooters and wheelchairs.

6:32 I remember working with Colin Furze, if you know, mad Lincolnshire inventor.

6:36 -Yes.

6:36 Years ago.

6:37 Anything where he was putting high-powered stuff in, mobility scooter motors,

6:41 wheelchair motors, depending on whether you needed more torque or more speed.

6:45 So, we’ve got switchboard here.

6:47 Yeah, so harbour and warship model are both out from… Yep.

6:51 All the stuff on the ground.

6:52 And there’s still no radio control for that, so as those boats move out,

6:56 they’re dragging a long waterproof firing cable behind them.

7:00 The tanker, that’s the British Pride,

7:03 which… I feel a bit sorry for the British Pride as you’ll see in the show.

7:06 That one really doesn’t do anything other than get blown up.

7:09 (laughter) And then the submarine as well, which is fairly straightforward.

7:14 So, let’s have a look at the other

7:16 end of those firing cables on the British Pride.

7:18 Across the deck you can see effects, wires.

7:21 -Oh.

7:21 Those are… -These are all spent.

7:23 They’re all gone, don’t worry about them.

7:25 -Yeah.

7:25 It’s not hooked up to any power.

7:27 Oh yeah, I’m still not gonna get close to a used firework, though.

7:30 But these, yeah, these in the show all fire at different points,

7:33 and you can see the… on these, the arms, they fold down.

7:37 -Yeah.

7:37 They’ll fold in the water, and sit just underneath,

7:40 so they’ll… big splash, look like near misses and… -Right.

7:44 It’s on a tilt as I mentioned earlier with the concrete barrel.

7:47 Remember that boat from the camcorder footage

7:49 that got hit and suddenly listed to the side?

7:52 This is how it’s done.

7:53 And it also involves pyrotechnics.

7:55 (clanking) -This here… -Oh!

8:01 -...there’s a massive concrete barrel.

8:02 -Big lump of concrete, right.

8:05 So, now the ship’s upright.

8:07 -Yep.

8:09 It’s literally like that until they blow.

8:14 That flies out.

8:15 Hopefully it rolls.

8:17 -Yep.

8:17 And all of a sudden the ship is listing in the water?

8:19 Listing in the water, yeah.

8:21 You might assume that something like this is

8:22 going to be run by enthusiastic volunteers, perhaps older retired folks.

8:26 But, no, these are park staff, council employees.

8:29 It’s part of the job of running Peasholm Park.

8:32 And they have to train up new people all the time.

8:34 At the start of the season, we’ll do a run through.

8:37 We’ll get everyone in boats, just get used to being in them,

8:39 ’cause it’s… there’s driving them and there’s being in it as well, you know.

8:42 If you stick someone in it and then they have a panic attack,

8:45 ’cos it’s like being in a coffin on water essentially.

8:50 Obviously we’re not going to force them in a boat.

8:52 No.

8:52 If you can’t do it, you can’t do it.

8:54 -Handle it, yeah.

8:55 And it’s not something everyone here is comfortable with doing.

8:59 No one’s ever forced to go in.

9:00 -No!

9:01 (laughter) It’s not something you can really say to someone.

9:06 All the boats you can sit up in, apart from the aircraft carrier,

9:09 the Ark Royal, the one in the far corner.

9:12 -Yeah.

9:12 That one, you can sit up...

9:13 -You can sit up.

9:14 You’re not lying completely prone?

9:17 Not lying completely flat apart from in Ark Royal, which, that is… -Oh.

9:21 Whoever has that boat, you know… I mean, in the show,

9:27 it’s probably the boat with the least amount of things to do,

9:30 but it is not an easy one to get to grips with.

9:33 Meanwhile, Brandon and Richard are getting the last cable out.

9:36 We’ve got all three of us.

9:38 In the event of one of us not being able to do a particular job,

9:41 we can all do each other’s jobs.

9:43 So, you’ll see, we can look after this, this, all

9:46 the bits that go off in the show.

9:48 Every time I think that someone’s been introduced as well,

9:52 they bring new ideas, fresh thoughts and questions get asked.

9:57 There’s certain things that are happening, but why do we do it this way?

10:02 There’s a well-known phrase down here which is,

10:05 “That’s just the way it’s always been”, you know...

10:07 (laughter) Which you know, a show that’s nearly 100 years old!

10:10 Yeah, so, we’ve changed a few things, hopefully for the better.

10:14 Job number two, get the rest of the boats out of the shed.

10:17 Which involved me putting on some waders.

10:20 It is still weird to be getting into water in clothing,

10:23 ’cos I’m convinced… Yeah, you still feel wet sometimes when you’re like...

10:26 -Yeah.

10:27 -...“Am I leaking?” But, sure, it’s just the cold.

10:29 This is...it’s uneven, isn’t it?

10:32 Untie the boat… Whoever did this knows their knots.

10:34 …and then bring it over to the side.

10:36 Let’s be honest, everyone watching this is going,

10:38 “Is he gonna fall in the water?” (laughter)

10:41 I did consider making that an enormous dramatic moment,

10:44 but no, I did not fall in the water.

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12:24 (laughs) Right, time to try driving.

12:26 While Noah and Richard rode out to pull the final cable across,

12:29 I got into a Peasholm Park Naval Warfare boat.

12:33 -There you go.

12:35 -Yep.

12:37 Well, that was… I made that more difficult than I needed to.

12:41 Alright, okay.

12:43 Sit down.

12:47 Legs out.

12:50 Okay.

12:52 -That is your throttle.

12:52 -That’s my throttle.

12:53 -Yeah.

12:54 So, if you let go, it’ll stop.

12:56 -Okay.

12:56 You’re gonna ease it on.

12:57 -So, I’m gonna be pulling…?

12:59 -No, no, no.

12:59 -No.

13:00 -Like a motorbike.

13:00 -Oh, like a motorbike.

13:01 Okay, yeah.

13:01 -Just twist it now.

13:02 You’ll get a feel for it.

13:03 -Oh, okay, yeah.

13:04 Gently.

13:05 -Forward and reverse selection there.

13:07 -Yep.

13:07 -Some of them are orientated incorrectly.

13:10 Okay, I’ll figure that out.

13:12 So, the motors go the same way, but because of the way that the prop is,

13:16 it depends which way it cuts the water.

13:18 -Oh, of course, yeah.

13:19 Alright.

13:19 -Do you understand that?

13:20 Yeah, that makes sense.

13:21 Yeah, if the prop’s on the other way, it’ll push the other way.

13:23 Don’t worry, you’ll soon figure it out.

13:25 Just switch that key.

13:26 -Ignition on.

13:27 Now, if you twist that throttle, you should feel… (engine revving) -Yep.

13:33 -Yeah?

13:33 Now, which…okay, so I’m going forward with that, I can feel it pushing that way.

13:37 -And then you’re steering with your feet.

13:39 -Steering with my feet?

13:40 Where?

13:40 Oh, okay, yeah, I see it.

13:42 -Yeah?

13:43 Okay, so, are we keeping the top up for now or…?

13:45 They’re very responsive, so, don’t worry about having to start turning,

13:48 you know, a mile before you want to make a corner.

13:52 The lid, you can pull down yourself, you should be able to grab the side...

13:56 -Alright.

13:56 -...and bring it down.

13:57 Just mind your head on these bits and don’t clip yourself.

14:00 -(laughs) Right.

14:00 I’m gonna push you out into the centre.

14:02 If you can go out.

14:02 -Yep.

14:03 -Bear left and just go very slowly.

14:05 -Very slowly.

14:05 -Just hang fire and I’ll come and… -Yeah.

14:07 I’m not gonna go… -And we’ll go from there.

14:09 Okay.

14:10 (laughter) -So, yeah, just slow and steady.

14:13 -Slow and steady.

14:14 -I’ll catch you up in just a moment.

14:16 -Okay.

14:16 I think the best way of explaining quite how big a deal this was for me,

14:19 and I think how big a deal it would be for many people

14:22 from this part of Yorkshire is that I sent a text to my friend,

14:25 Gary, Yorkshireman born and bred,

14:26 telling him that I’d done this, and the reply included

14:30 enough swearing that I’m not going to repeat it on camera.

14:33 Muggins here is having a joyride and, er...

14:36 they’re still hard at work getting the cables out.

14:38 I’m just getting in their way.

14:40 Oh, hello!

14:40 -Don’t be afraid to open it up.

14:42 -Really?

14:42 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

14:43 He says, “Don’t be afraid to open it up.” Alright.

14:46 (engine revving) That is…oh, my word.

14:51 That is full steam ahead.

14:52 (engine rumbling) I cannot believe they’re letting me do this.

14:56 Left hand down a bit.

14:58 (engine rumbling) And right hand down a bit.

15:01 And left hand down a bit.

15:04 (engine rumbling) (laughter) Don’t hit the seagull, don’t hit the bandstand...

15:11 ...don’t hit the seagull, don’t hit the bandstand.

15:13 Move out the way, seagull.

15:15 Move out...thank you.

15:16 (laughter) I’ve just got full throttle on this boat.

15:26 I’ve got full throttle on a Peasholm Park Naval Warfare boat!

15:30 If you didn’t grow up round here,

15:32 I know this might not mean much to you, but to me, this is incredible.

15:38 I turned the power down there, because I thought the ship was going to coast.

15:41 I’ve driven a canal boat and some other little boats

15:43 before and there’s always so much more inertia than you think,

15:46 you have to plan so far in advance.

15:47 But here… No, these were easy.

15:50 I went off the throttle far earlier than I needed to.

15:53 This is the sort of thing where you can just… Yeah!

15:57 I did have to, at least briefly, bring the lid down.

16:05 You know what?

16:07 The visibility’s not bad, is it?

16:11 “In that one”, he says.

16:13 Alright.

16:13 Next, the HMS Ark Royal.

16:16 I should mention, while I’m getting towed in, that for many years

16:18 the Peasholm Park show was based on an actual Second World War naval battle,

16:21 the Battle of the River Plate,

16:23 but these days it’s just British forces versus an unnamed enemy.

16:27 Which is why the British ships have names, they’re based on actual ships.

16:31 Like the Ark Royal, the aircraft carrier.

16:34 Here we go.

16:37 -There we go.

16:38 -Whaa!

16:39 Haha, haha...

16:40 That was certainly a noise I made.

16:41 Right.

16:41 So, sit...aiieeh!

16:43 Okay.

16:44 Don’t put your weight anywhere other than the centre, Tom.

16:48 Okay.

16:49 Lovely.

16:51 (clanking) Ooh!

16:52 Okay.

16:52 Yeah.

16:53 -You’re certainly in.

16:54 -Yeah, I’m definitely in.

16:55 -You are limited for space in this one...

16:57 -I am.

16:58 as you can see because you’ve got a handle that wants to poke you in the chest.

17:01 Yes.

17:02 -You’re currently sat very proud.

17:05 -Oh.

17:05 Right.

17:06 For right now, do you want to go out where you can see over the top?

17:10 No, let’s do it properly.

17:12 Let’s do it properly.

17:13 -With the lid on?

17:13 -Let’s do it.

17:14 -Yeah?

17:14 -Yeah.

17:15 -Okay.

17:15 ’Cos I’ve had the joyride, haven’t I?

17:17 I’ve had the bit where… -You’ve had the pleasant part, yeah.

17:20 -Yeah.

17:20 Right, okay.

17:21 So, my head has to be… -You’re scooted right down.

17:24 -Yep.

17:25 -I’m gonna slide this lid towards you.

17:27 -Yep.

17:28 -Oh, good grief.

17:29 -Do mind your head.

17:30 Yep.

17:31 Well, that’s… That’s an experience.

17:37 You said it was like a coffin earlier.

17:39 I can see why.

17:41 I don’t know if we can see you in there from this end.

17:43 (laughter) Right.

17:45 Ignition.

17:48 Little bit of power.

17:50 (engine rumbling) Yeah, give it a bit more.

17:57 (loud grinding and humming) That’s a noise.

18:01 Go this way to go forwards.

18:03 (rumbling) Okay, look, it could be worse, is all I’m saying.

18:09 Turning to the bandstand!

18:11 I couldn’t really see.

18:12 When you’re piloting the Ark Royal, one hand on the throttle,

18:15 one hand on the steering lever that wants to hit you in the face,

18:18 all you have are tiny portholes,

18:20 most of which you can’t see anything through from that angle, so,

18:24 you have to remember what you have seen and build

18:27 up a model of the environment in your head.

18:30 Presumably the drivers pick up this skill and know

18:32 the lake like the back of their hand,

18:34 but when you’re piloting an icon of Scarborough for the first time,

18:37 it’s a bit nerve-racking.

18:39 Also, you may spot that I had some company in the boat, a few moths.

18:44 I’d not noticed the moths, I was too busy trying not to crash,

18:47 but I will notice one of them very soon.

18:50 Oh, there are a lot of tourists watching me.

18:53 I mean, let’s be honest, all the people watching are hoping at some

18:56 level that I’m going to suddenly yell,

18:58 “Everybody down!” and ram the bandstand, but I think...I’m round safely.

19:03 -Now open her up a bit, take her in.

19:06 -Open it up and take her in.

19:07 -Yeah.

19:08 -Got it.

19:09 I steadily took the Ark Royal up to full throttle and, look,

19:13 I know it might not look like much from outside,

19:16 but when you’re lying with your head by the waterline for the first time,

19:19 it does feel unsafe at that speed.

19:22 Blimey, that’s fast!

19:24 This feels like joyriding.

19:26 This feels like I’m going far too fast.

19:29 Oh, blimey, there’s a pedalo coming in at speed.

19:31 Ah!

19:32 That’s fine.

19:33 That’s fine.

19:34 Hello...

19:35 Hello, tourists, as if I’m not a tourist.

19:38 I didn’t spot that pedalo.

19:40 A few seconds’ difference and… well, they’d have stopped,

19:43 or they’d have taken evasive manoeuvres, I guess?

19:45 It’s not exactly dangerous.

19:47 Of course, when the battle’s happening, that wouldn’t be a problem.

19:48 There’s no public on the lake then, but it did alarm me a little.

19:52 I still had not noticed the moths.

19:54 I wasn’t looking inside the boat at all,

19:57 and then one of them decided to wake me up.

20:00 God, I cannot see the critical areas here, but no one’s shouting at me.

20:06 I feel like that was very close on the left.

20:09 Oh, my God, there’s a moth in here!

20:11 Argh!

20:11 (laughter) I don’t know if that was a moth or a butterfly!

20:16 (laughter) Didn’t expect to have that problem.

20:20 My voice went up two octaves.

20:22 That reaction would have been far more appropriate

20:25 for the firework I’d be helping set up soon, not for a moth, but never mind.

20:29 I parked up, was let out of the Ark Royal,

20:31 and then told that the Moth Incident could have been so much worse.

20:35 What do you mean, “they do that”?

20:38 (laughter) -The worst thing I’ve had is a frog.

20:40 -A frog?

20:41 A frog in the boat with ’em, yeah.

20:43 Never mind a butterfly.

20:44 Frogs, moths and butterflies, that’s the… It’s when you set the effects off

20:48 and they all just… obviously hear the effect and then

20:51 you have five or six of them just… smash

20:53 into the side of your face from all different directions.

20:56 The last job, then, was the final setup for the show.

20:58 The team rigged all the explosions and effects on the boats,

21:01 towed three of them out,

21:03 attached them to the winch cables and plugged in the wires for the detonators.

21:06 And, under very strict supervision, I was allowed to prep one firework:

21:11 the big boom that signals there’s half an hour until the show.

21:15 -Next job.

21:16 -Is this beauty.

21:18 -Oh right, yes.

21:20 -So, take that.

21:21 Okay.

21:22 -Whoohoohoo!

21:22 Okay!

21:23 This is gonna be our 2:30.

21:25 It acts as a bird scarer.

21:28 Also it’s a cue for our narrator, Jim...

21:32 -Right.

21:32 -...to start his lot.

21:33 So, I’ll go and show you where it goes.

21:35 Okay.

21:36 It’s fine, I’m just, you know, casually holding an explosive.

21:40 “75mm white crackling.” Right, so… in the tube first?

21:47 Whichever, however you’re comfortable.

21:49 I would pop it in the tube first.

21:50 -Alright, in the tube first.

21:52 Make sure your head’s not looking straight down when you connect it.

21:54 -Thank you.

21:55 (laughs) -That’s it.

21:57 I wasn’t worried about this until you said that.

21:59 Now, the thing is...

22:02 while I’m aware that everything is switched off… Oh,

22:06 it’s always in the back of your mind.

22:07 It’s always in the back of your mind, just this moment.

22:09 So, you can always move just out of the way.

22:11 There you go.

22:11 Just come over here, just in case.

22:13 And we’re fine.

22:14 Because of course we’re fine, but it’s just, you know.

22:17 Yeah, don’t worry.

22:18 We’re professional.

22:19 Yes.

22:19 Yeah, you are.

22:20 They let me flip the switch to fire the explosion too.

22:23 Now, they did mention that the firework was used as two things: first,

22:27 a cue for the show’s narrator to start his warm-up, and second, a bird scarer.

22:34 My apologies to the seagull that was tucked away under the dock.

22:37 Three, two, one...

22:41 (explosion) Then more of the park staff arrived to drive the boats.

22:47 Jim the narrator warmed up the crowd.

22:49 I said my thank yous and goodbyes,

22:50 and it was very quickly back over the bridge to see

22:52 if the show itself was like I remembered from the 90s.

22:56 -Can you see the warship, Peasholm?

22:58 (crowd cheering) Well, let’s give that warship a big boo,

23:01 Peasholm, come on, one, two, three!

23:03 (crowd booing) The warship!

23:07 (crackling, fizzing) (crowd cheering) (explosives fizzing,

23:17 crackling) The enemy guns have fallen silent!

23:23 (cheering) (explosives fizzing) Enemy HQ has been hit!

23:38 Next time, or right now on Nebula: a lot of sugar,

23:42 and a completely unnecessary joke involving 1990s Dutch happy hardcore music.