How Ships Work YouTube Stats

@howshipswork1 · Science & Education · Updated Nov 10, 2026

How Ships Work channel overview

How Ships Work (@howshipswork1) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2026. It has 6.4K subscribers and 14K total views across 88 videos, an average of 158 views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.4K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.2K views. Over the last 12 months, How Ships Work published 15 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does How Ships Work make?

Returbe doesn't have enough recent views to estimate How Ships Work's monthly revenue. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.5 to $12, typically $6.5, 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 $6.5K.

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Upload schedule

How Ships Work publishes about 16.3 videos a month. Based on its last 15 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (33% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 9, 2026.

How Ships Work's best outlier videos

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

• What Happens When Pirates Break Into a Cargo Ship’s Citadel — Can the Crew Still Escape?3.3K views · Oct 27, 20262.7× typical views
• Captain vs. Crew: 10 Surprising Differences in Life on a Giant Cargo Ship2.5K views · Nov 1, 20262.1× typical views
• Inside a Cargo Ship’s Emergency Escape Trunk — The Hidden Way Out of a Burning Engine Room1.8K views · Oct 29, 20261.5× typical views
• 10 Defenses Cargo Ships Use to Keep Pirates Away From the Crew1.4K views · Oct 31, 20261.2× typical views
• Inside an Oil Rig’s Emergency Shelter — Where Workers Go When a Fire Breaks Out1.4K views · Oct 27, 20261.1× typical views
• What’s Inside an Oil Tanker’s Fireproof Lifeboat — And How Sailors Escape Through Burning Oil1K views · Oct 27, 20260.9× typical views
• 7 Strange Features Inside a Cargo Ship Captain’s Cabin — And What They Do929 views · Nov 7, 20260.8× typical views
• 10 Hidden Spaces on a Cargo Ship Sailors Can’t Just Walk Into814 views · Nov 5, 20260.7× typical views

Latest videos

3 of How Ships Work's last 15 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• 7 Tools Sailors Use to Navigate a Cargo Ship Through a Pitch-Black Ocean154 views · Nov 9, 2026
• 10 Strange Items Packed Into a Cargo Ship’s Lifeboat to Keep Sailors Alive214 views · Nov 9, 2026
• 7 Strange Features Inside a Cargo Ship Captain’s Cabin — And What They Do929 views · Nov 7, 20260.8× typical views
• 10 Hidden Spaces on a Cargo Ship Sailors Can’t Just Walk Into814 views · Nov 5, 20260.7× typical views
• 10 Cargo Ship Alarms You Never Want to Hear at 2 A.M.424 views · Nov 3, 20260.3× typical views
• Captain vs. Crew: 10 Surprising Differences in Life on a Giant Cargo Ship2.5K views · Nov 1, 20262.1× typical views
• 10 Defenses Cargo Ships Use to Keep Pirates Away From the Crew1.4K views · Oct 31, 20261.2× typical views
• 7 Cargo Ship Alarms That Can Wake the Entire Crew at 2 A.M.562 views · Oct 30, 20260.5× typical views
• Inside a Cargo Ship’s Emergency Escape Trunk — The Hidden Way Out of a Burning Engine Room1.8K views · Oct 29, 20261.5× typical views
• Inside an Oil Rig’s Emergency Shelter — Where Workers Go When a Fire Breaks Out1.4K views · Oct 27, 20261.1× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.3K videos from 670 channels in this niche. 12.7% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (54K subs, best video 271.5×), MemeBlaze HFY (1.4K subs, best video 47.5×), ClipazoPodcast (30K subs, best video 25×), The Scale Room (1.6K subs, best video 486.2×), Live Wild (1K subs, best video 72×), Female Psychology | Mia Khalifa (8.1K subs, best video 88×).

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Frequently asked questions

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