Maritime History with Chris Sams (live and unplugged)

A quick run through of the fortifications that were built around Chatham dockyard to protect the Naval facilities with the main focus being on the Victorian fortifications including Grain Tower, Fort…

This week I ask myself the question as to whether the Battleship, as a concept, was dead by the start of the Second World War as has been argued elsewhere and if so, what has made it obsolete?

Two thi…

In September 1939 the small Polish Navy was tasked with defending their shores against the German navy but how well did they do and how long did they hold out?

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This week’s episode looks at three ship designs that changed everything we knew or thought we knew about ship designs in the 19th Century.

From armour to speed and underwater!

There is one slight soun…

This week, on the 85th anniversary of Adlertag I put forward the idea that had Operation Sealion been launched then the Royal Navy would have swept it aside with ease and that the Norway Campaign had…

This week’s episode is the final part of my Austro-Hungarian Kriegsmarine at the end of the First World War and the fate of the flagship of the State of Slovenes Croats and Serbian navy

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This week’s episode we stay in the First World War and with the Austro-Hungarian Kriegsmarine for their last sortie of 1918…

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This week’s episode continues with the First World War and the Austro-Hungarian Kriegsmarine with their attempt to decimate the Allied barrage at Otranto in May 1917.

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This week’s episode returns to the First World War and the Cattaro mutiny of the Austro-Hungarian Kriegsmarine sailors who are tired of the war and their conditions…

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This week’s episode returns to the Second World War and the tale of how one German Naval officer was honoured with a samurai sword from a grateful Japan….

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This week’s episode I head back to the pivotal battle of Lissa in the Italian War of Independence in which Austria will inspire ship design for the next thirty years and a ship that would be the basi…

This week I turn to some of my favourite Star Wars books and my favourite Imperial Admiral from Kevin J. Anderson’s Jedi Academy trilogy and compare her campaign against the New Republic to the campa…

This week’s episode I follow on from the last episode on the Battle of St Kitts in 1782 with Admiral Rodney’s attack on the Comte de Grasse’s invasion fleet.

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This week’s episode I go back to the American War of Independence to complain about the lack of Naval history in comparrison to the land battles and how Britain is fighting a larger global war.

The F…

This week’s episode I ask and answer the question of who won the battle of Jutland and answer with my thoughts and arguments as to why it is a score draw I chose Jutland due to the passing anniversar…

This week’s episode recounts the story of Operation Cereberus, the move of the battleships Scharnhorst & Gneisenau and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen up the English Channel in February 1942.

The British tr…

This week’s episode looks at the final battle of the Bismarck and answers the question - who sank the battleship?

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This week’s episode is a rough overview of the different classes of warship available at the start of the First World War and their different roles within the fleet…

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This week’s episode is a rough overview of the escape of the Goeben (and Breslau) in 1914, why Churchill made it worse and why Admiral Ernest Troubridge made the right decission (though possibly for …

In this week’s podcast I try to answer the self imposed question of whether any lessons that were learnt during the First World War’s Naval war that are still relevant today.

The three main areas are …