The Bilge Pumps

#Bilgepumps this week is different, for episode 104 and one of the owned by poodles... so it's Alex & Drach discussing all the latest events of the world's navies & maritime affairs, as once again the Bilgepumps crew bravely tries to examine them with the sheild of history, the spear of logic and the armour of a group of friends having a chat...

This was up to date as of information recieved by 20th of September 2022.

We would also very much like any comments, topic suggestions or ideas for artwork to be tweeted to us, the #Bilgepump crew (with #Bilgepumps), at Alex (@AC_NavalHistory), Drach (@Drachinifel), and Jamie (@Armouredcarrier). Or you can comment on our YouTube channels (listed down below).

#Bilgepumps this week is different, for episode 103 and again it's only those with poodles... so it's Alex & Jamie discussing all the latest events of the world's navies & maritime affairs, as once again the Bilgepumps crew bravely tries to examine them with the sheild of history, the spear of logic and the armour of a group of friends having a chat...

This was up to date as of information recieved by 7th of September 2022.

We would also very much like any comments, topic suggestions or ideas for artwork to be tweeted to us, the #Bilgepump crew (with #Bilgepumps), at Alex (@AC_NavalHistory), Drach (@Drachinifel), and Jamie (@Armouredcarrier). Or you can comment on our YouTube channels (listed down below).

#Bilgepumps this week is different, for episode 102 it's only those with poodles... so it's Alex & Jamie discussing all the latest events of the world's navies & maritime affairs, as once again the Bilgepumps crew bravely tries to examine them with the sheild of history, the spear of logic and the armour of a group of friends having a chat...

This was up to date as of information recieved by 31st of August 2022.

We would also very much like any comments, topic suggestions or ideas for artwork to be tweeted to us, the #Bilgepump crew (with #Bilgepumps), at Alex (@AC_NavalHistory), Drach (@Drachinifel), and Jamie (@Armouredcarrier). Or you can comment on our YouTube channels (listed down below).

#Bilgepumps this week is special, it's our hundredth and first episode, but we do not have a dalmation between us... so appologies, what we do have is a lot of discussion about logisitics, infrastructure and the realities of the world we are now finding ourselves heading to; with a smattering of drones, of ship design and feedback on a design someone bravely sent to us to review...

We would also very much like any comments, topic suggestions or ideas for artwork to be tweeted to us, the #Bilgepump crew (with #Bilgepumps), at Alex (@AC_NavalHistory), Drach (@Drachinifel), and Jamie (@Armouredcarrier). Or you can comment on our YouTube channels (listed down below).

#Bilgepumps this week is special, it's our hundredth episode and Sal Mercogliano has joined us, to do a this is your life version of bilgepumps, interviewing Alex, Jamie & Drach - hold on to you earphones, this goes deep and gets a surprising large dolup of naval history and current affairs mixed in with it.

We would also very much like any comments, topic suggestions or ideas for artwork to be tweeted to us, the #Bilgepump crew (with #Bilgepumps), at Alex (@AC_NavalHistory), Drach (@Drachinifel), and Jamie (@Armouredcarrier). Or you can comment on our YouTube channels (listed down below).

We've made it to Episode 99, The Disapearing of Alex! Jamie & Drach were vexxed by many, Many, MANY things this week... there's a lot of naval stuff to examine and discuss...

We would also very much like any comments, topic suggestions or ideas for artwork to be tweeted to us, the #Bilgepump crew (with #Bilgepumps), at Alex (@AC_NavalHistory), Drach (@Drachinifel), and Jamie (@Armouredcarrier). Or you can comment on our YouTube channels (listed down below).

We've made it to Episode 98, The Return of Jamie! Alex & Drach were vexxed by many, Many, MANY things this week... there's a lot of naval stuff to examine and discuss... but we started with a game

We would also very much like any comments, topic suggestions or ideas for artwork to be tweeted to us, the #Bilgepump crew (with #Bilgepumps), at Alex (@AC_NavalHistory), Drach (@Drachinifel), and Jamie (@Armouredcarrier). Or you can comment on our YouTube channels (listed down below).

We've made it to Episode 97, Jamie was busy... Alex & Drach were vexxed by restrictions of information, so this is a discussion of youtube alogrithm on military history, on traditional media sources and on current events in the world of naval affairs...

We would also very much like any comments, topic suggestions or ideas for artwork to be tweeted to us, the #Bilgepump crew (with #Bilgepumps), at Alex (@AC_NavalHistory), Drach (@Drachinifel), and Jamie (@Armouredcarrier). Or you can comment on our YouTube channels (listed down below).

We've made it to Episode 96 and we've decided to go historical this week to hunt for lessons, for this we are joined for a deep dive on Roman Britain and the Pirate King who ruled just before the period of the four Emperors with Dr Simon Elliot. So please sit back, relax, while with Jamie away, Alex & Drach get to chat a lot of Roman History and Roman Naval History with Simon.

We would also very much like any comments, topic suggestions or ideas for artwork to be tweeted to us, the #Bilgepump crew (with #Bilgepumps), at Alex (@AC_NavalHistory), Drach (@Drachinifel), and Jamie (@Armouredcarrier). Or you can comment on our YouTube channels (listed down below).

We've made it to Episode 95 and we've decided to go historical this week to hunt for lessons, for this we are joined for a deep dive on Singapore and the Malaya Campaign by the wonderful Lucrezia Brown. So please sit back, relax, with some very factual descriptions of some of the Campaign's events included, as Lucrezia, Alex, Drach and Jamie try to learn what can be learnt, from one of the most unexplored parts of the WWII historical pantheon.

We would also very much like any comments, topic suggestions or ideas for artwork to be tweeted to us, the #Bilgepump crew (with #Bilgepumps), at Alex (@AC_NavalHistory), Drach (@Drachinifel), and Jamie (@Armouredcarrier). Or you can comment on our YouTube channels (listed down below).