Maritime History with Chris Sams (live and unplugged)

This week’s episode looks at the battle of Sluys in 1340 between the French Navy and King Edward III’s invasion force - I’m really not an expert but hopefully it is a good overview of a battle I’d ne…

This week’s podcast jumps on the Titanic bandwagon and looks at the career of Titanic’s Second Officer, Charles Lightoller and his actions on the night of the sinking as well accusations of war crime…

Today’s episode looks at the German raid on the English coastline in December 1914 and how it was a near miss for both fleets as well as the human tragedy.

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Today’s episode looks at War crimes and the U-boat arm of both the Kaiserliche-Marine and Kriegsmarine, whether unrestricted U-boat warfare is a war crime, those who carried out crimes and their puni…

Today episode picks up where last week’s left off and talks about the Central Power’s naval strategy for the Mediterranean, the dispatch of U-boats and the immediate impact of Otto Hersing’s arrival.

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Today episode is an overview of the Allied attempt to force the Dardanelles with warships alone on the 18th March 1915, its background, its undertaking and the outcomes.

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Today episode is my meditation on the chances of a German Naval victory in the First World War addressing Cruiser warfare, Zeppelins, U-boats, Dogger Bank, Jutland and bombardments.

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Today we’re heading out to the Tsushima Strait for the battle between the Russian Second Pacific fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy in an endgame battle in the Russo-Japanese War.

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I return this week to talk about the Battle of Havana between the gun boat Meteor and Aviso Bouvet during the Franco Prussian War.

This took a lot less time than I planned so I also throw in the stor…

This week’s podcast was somewhat adlibed by me late one evening giving a rough overview of the idea of the Kaiserliche-Marine using liners as Commerce raiders in 1914-15 including the Kaiser Wilhelm …

This week’s podcast tells the story of the Polish submarine Orzel and her escape from Poland and Estonia in the opening months of World War 2.

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This week’s podcast is the story of the XE-Craft submarines in the Pacific in 1945 and the VC winning attack on the cruiser Takao.

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This week’s podcast tells the story of the sinking of HMS Glorious during Operation Juno in June 1940 by the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

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This week’s podcast was completely unplanned and unscripted and answering a question I was tagged in on Twitter/X. This is my take on whether the Germans could have done more to protect their colonie…

This week’s podcast talks about the English answer to the Spanish Armada of 1588 which was the English Armada, a grand operation led by Drake that over the course of two months cost the crown about 1…

This week’s podcast is a spontaneous myth busting about the Titanic sinking. There are so many myths and conspiracy theories and I try to answer a few of them including;

She was sunk by a U-boat.

The …

This week’s podcast is on an epic first in Naval history for the first day of the first month of the New Year. HMS Pathfinder and her sinking.

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This week’s podcast answers a question that you’ve not thought of but really bothers me - Should the Pre-dreadnought squadron have been included in the German Order of Battle at Jutland?

Yes, but why?…

This week’s podcast tells the story of the Battle of The Falklands and follows on from last week’s on the Battle of Coronel.

Following the loss of Craddock’s Squadron the Royal Navy move to cut off v…

This week’s podcast tells the story of the Battle of Coronel. In October 1914 the Royal Navy’s American station was dealing with German commerce raiders attacking trade off the coasts of South Americ…