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 America when news broke that the Ostasiengeschwader was heading to Chile.

What followed was a disagreement of how to fight the battle between London and Stanley, searching for the enemy and tragedy.

This episode sets up next week’s on the Battle of the Falklands.

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This week’s podcast is my attempt to answer whether the German Navy of the Second World War would have been better off with a larger U-boat force rather than surface warships. It covers twenty years of Naval history and theory mixed with planning. Hopefully I answer the most argued observation of World War Two naval history.

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This week’s podcast is on a very Victorian research and development problem that led to disaster. The evolution of the Turret mounted warship dreamed up by Captain Cowper Coles which led to HMS Captain and the ensuing shipwreck.

Apologies if the sound is a bit off this week, not quite sure what went wrong!

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This week’s podcast is on the career of the SS Mount Temple from the Boer War to the Titanic sinking and on to her final encounter with the raider Mowe.

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This week’s podcast is on the British invasions of the French colonies of Martinique and Guadeloupe in 1809-10.

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This week’s podcast is on the openning first day of Operation Neuland, the U-boat offensive against oil and bauxite ore ships and facilites in the Caribbean in 1942 as well as the Allied response to the German raiders.

This is a podcast based on the essay on the subject I wrote for my substack and condenced.

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In February 1781 Admiral Rodney attacks the Dutch held island of St Eustace as part of the Fourth Anglo Dutch War.

However, rather than a successful snatch and grab what followed is an often overlooked episode of British history which included pillaging, racism and greed driven incompetence that helped cost the Crown the thirteen colonies.

This week I look at the raid and how it was carried out and ask questions of Rodney’s character and ability.

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From August 1914 the German light crusier Emden began a raiding career against Allied flagged shipping in the Indian Ocean and what followed is a campaign that sees 70,000 tons sunk and 30,000 nautical miles sailed.

This episode follows her career from the start of the war through to the aftermath of the battle of Penang on October 28th.

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In April 1942 the Japanese Navy carrier task force moves into the Indian Ocean with devestating effect. The only British force to engage the Carrier group was 11 Squadron’s Blenheim Mk IVs in a daring raid.

In this week’s podcast I explain why the Japanese were attacking the Indian Ocean, how the Blenheims came to attack and the outcome of the raid.

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One of the strangest encounters to occur in the War at Sea of 1914 was when the German liner, Cap Trafalgar, was engaged by the British liner, Carmania. Both vessels were serving as auxiliary warships and it was the first case of such a combat, but why were they off the coast of Brazil and what happened next?

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