Black Frigate YouTube Stats

@black-frigate · Science & Education · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Black Frigate channel overview

Black Frigate (@black-frigate) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2026. It has 11K subscribers and 4.7M total views across 71 videos, an average of 66K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 50K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 31K views. Over the last 12 months, Black Frigate published 30 videos, and 4 of them (13%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Black Frigate make?

Returbe estimates Black Frigate's YouTube ad revenue at $966 – $3.3K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.75 to $6, typically $3.25, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $3.3K.

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Upload schedule

Black Frigate publishes about 20.6 videos a month. Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (50% of uploads), usually around 02:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Black Frigate's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Black Frigate's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• The Incredible Engineering of USS Constitution — Old Ironsides303K views · Oct 8, 20269.8× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of the USS Monitor201K views · Oct 8, 20266.5× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of the Torpedo181K views · Oct 10, 20265.8× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of the Whaling Ship115K views · Oct 17, 20263.7× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of the Clipper Ship78K views · Oct 8, 20262.5× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of the Dahlgren Gun — The Guns Inside the Monitor's Turret73K views · Oct 24, 20262.4× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of the Mississippi Steamboat62K views · Oct 26, 20262× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of the Steamship57K views · Oct 8, 20261.8× typical views

Latest videos

10 of Black Frigate's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How They Actually Raised Sunken Warships in the Age of Sail9.9K views · Nov 7, 20260.3× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of the Great Eastern — The Ship 40 Years Ahead of Its Time7.2K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of CSS Alabama — The Ship That Hunted the Union Navy10K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of HMS Erebus — The Ship That Disappeared With 129 Men6K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of the Destroyer36K views · Oct 31, 20261.2× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of the Naval Shell Gun19K views · Oct 30, 20260.6× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of the Sailor's Hammock — 14 Inches to Sleep on a Warship8K views · Oct 28, 20260.3× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of Ironclad Armor10K views · Oct 27, 20260.3× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of the Mississippi Steamboat62K views · Oct 26, 20262× typical views
• The Incredible Engineering of USS Philadelphia — The Frigate America Had to Burn6.8K views · Oct 24, 20260.2× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.2K videos from 466 channels in this niche. 12.5% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 13K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (52K subs, best video 377.1×), ClipazoPodcast (29K subs, best video 25.5×), The Scale Room (1.4K subs, best video 351.4×), Yorp (10K subs, best video 24.4×), Past the Blue (36K subs, best video 16.3×), The Why Side (48K subs, best video 189.4×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Black Frigate or YouTube.