This week’s episode looks at British Naval deployment pre First World War, was it up for the challenge and were the ships obsolete, tired and inferior to their German counterparts?

This is inspired by Brandon’ recent podcast over at the Command Post (which you can find here.), which is fantastic and you should totally go check out him and his work.

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The Battle of Britain was no picnic for either side with Bf 109 pilots suffering similar escapes and evasions over the skies of south east England in the same way as their RAF counterparts.

However, Feldewebel Evers, would cost a Colonel his command and send his daughter to prison.

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This week I look at the unprotected cruiser Geier and her role in the early stages of the First World War in the Indian Ocean. Can Kapitan Grasshoff evade the British and Japanese Navies? Can he get his men back to Germany or deal a blow to the Royal Navy?

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This week’s podcast is not Maritime based but looks at a little bit of Local history and the Swing Riots across rural South East England…

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In 1918 a US Navy collier disappeared without a trace in the Caribbean Sea but what caused this disappearance?

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This week, for D-Day, I am covering the loss of the ORP Dragon, the Polish Naval flagship off the beaches of Normandy.

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This week I look at the loss of HMS Affray, the last British submarine lost in an accident (or War) when she disappeared in 1951 with all hands.

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As a special editon here is the talk I gave at the CMPH conference on 16 May for the 110th Anniversary of the Battle of Jutland.

Happy Jutland day.

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This week’s episode is a bit of a strange one as I didn’t really have a plan.

I kind of monologue to myself about Bismarck, the differences between the naval armament programs of the Second and Third Reich and whether the Kriegsmarine was any good compared to the Japanese or Italian Navies…

Its kind of a long stream of consciousness…

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Also check out Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs here

And the Italian Naval channel here

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This week’s episode looks at the museum ship, HMS Cavalier, the last WW2 destroyer - her career, her battle honour and what she represents.

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