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 der Grosse, Kronprinz Wilhelm, Prinz Eitel Friedrich and passing mentions of Cap Trafalgar and Berlin.

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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.

Original text with more detail can be found here.

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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.

If you would like to read the original write up do check it out here.

I should apologise for my attempt at a German accent when quoting Marschall.

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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 colonies from Allied attacks or

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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 15000 soldiers and… well I won’t spoil it here. This is a great story of poor planning, poor implementation and command.

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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 Olympic rather than a Titanic was sunk as an insurance scam.

In defence of Ismay.

Should they have rammed the Iceberg?

The curse of the Mummy.

SOS signals.

The Mystery ship theories

Officer suicide

Coal Bunker fires

The unsinkable myth.

This is by no means exhaustive or indepth dives into each.

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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?

I examine the Deutschland class battleship, its design, what their role in the German fleet was and ask the question as to whether they should or should not have been at Jutland in 1916.

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I hope you have a good Christmas and I will return in the New Year.

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 von Spee’s squadron and a larger, more powerful force is sent south to find and destroy the German Squadron.

On the 8th December the Germans come to them and what folows is the Battle of the Falkands.

This episode summerises the written format articles I’ve published on Substack over the last week or so for the 110th Falklands anniversary so if you are listening on another platform do go check them out on Substack https://substack.com/@jerijerod14?utm_source=user-menu

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