Maritime History with Chris Sams (live and unplugged)

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Harvey
 Mar 28, 2025
Very interesting Subject. Well researched and well presented if a little raw. but Sam is improving. slightly annoying when he laughs at his own jokes but it's forgiven for the excellent work overall.

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Maritime history is a multifaceted and fascinating subject which covers tales of heroism, war, disasters, trade and discovery. Naval Historian Chris Sams comes to you fortnightly to talk about an aspect of Maritime history recorded live and unplugged. This Podcast is part of Chris' Substack where he writes three times a week on the subject. https://substack.com/@jerijerod14?utm_source=user-menu

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Episode Date
Affray
Jun 03, 2026
The Spell of Trafalgar has been broken!
May 31, 2026
Thoughts on the Kriegsmarine
May 27, 2026
HMS Cavalier
May 20, 2026
Walter Schwieger and the sinking of Lusitania
May 13, 2026
The Bull of Scapa Flow
May 06, 2026
The Kriegsmarine's Carrier aircraft
Apr 29, 2026
What is a Naval blockade?
Apr 22, 2026
The Luftwaffe over Marden
Apr 15, 2026
An embarrassing defeat?
Apr 08, 2026
The Victoria Louise
Apr 01, 2026
Keeping the Straits Open
Mar 25, 2026
Bombing Rochester
Mar 18, 2026
The Sinking of the Dena
Mar 11, 2026
The Hormuz issue
Mar 04, 2026
Australia's first Naval sweep
Feb 25, 2026
The Arabic incident
Feb 18, 2026
On pirates and smugglers in Kent
Feb 11, 2026
The doomed U-570
Feb 04, 2026
Where is the British Navy?
Jan 28, 2026
What is a Pre-Dreadnought?
Jan 21, 2026
The Tegetthoff's weakness?
Jan 14, 2026
War Stories
Jan 07, 2026
The Formidable tragedy
Dec 31, 2025
The Caroline Affair of 1837
Dec 24, 2025
Skua down
Dec 17, 2025
Phillips' folly
Dec 10, 2025
Murder at the Dockyard
Dec 03, 2025
Defending Cowes
Nov 26, 2025
Adlertag
Nov 18, 2025
Three German ships enter the Channel
Nov 12, 2025
U-53's American raid
Nov 05, 2025
Haunted U-boats and Sea monsters
Oct 29, 2025
The Deutschland sails
Oct 22, 2025
Heading East
Oct 15, 2025
Deadman's Island and the hulks
Oct 08, 2025
The Wounded Knee Medals
Oct 01, 2025
Who is the greatest U-boat ace?
Sep 24, 2025
Defending Chatham
Sep 17, 2025
Were battleships a dead concept by World War Two?
Sep 10, 2025
Defending the Bay of Danzig
Sep 03, 2025
Three designs that changed everything
Aug 27, 2025
How the Royal Navy would beat Sealion
Aug 13, 2025
The death of Jugoslavia
Aug 06, 2025
Szent Istvan's only sortie
Jul 30, 2025
The Adriatic Jutland
Jul 23, 2025
An Austro-Hungarian mutiny
Jul 16, 2025
Samurai swords and German pirates
Jul 08, 2025
How the Austrians helped defeat the Martians
Jul 02, 2025
Commerce raiding in a Galaxy Far Far away
Jun 25, 2025
Rodney at the Saintes
Jun 18, 2025
Hood's defence of St Kitts
Jun 11, 2025
Jutland, a German victory?
Jun 04, 2025
The Channel Dash
May 28, 2025
Bismarck's final battle
May 21, 2025
On Naval ship classes and Star Wars
May 13, 2025
Troubridge's wise move
May 07, 2025
Do the lessons of 1914 still apply?
Apr 30, 2025
Action of Sluys
Apr 23, 2025
The problem with Lightoller...
Apr 15, 2025
Baby killers
Apr 09, 2025
Murder on the high seas
Apr 03, 2025
The Knight of the Dardanelles
Mar 26, 2025
Into the mouth of Hell
Mar 19, 2025
German Naval victory in the First World War?
Mar 12, 2025
Russian defeat
Mar 05, 2025
The Battle of Havana (1870)
Feb 26, 2025
German liners as warships
Feb 19, 2025
The Orzel incident
Feb 12, 2025
XE Craft in the Far East
Feb 05, 2025
The sinking of the Glorious
Jan 29, 2025
Could Germany have done more to protect the Pacific colonies during World War One?
Jan 22, 2025
A laughable affair - the English Armada of 1589
Jan 15, 2025
Titanic myths
Jan 08, 2025
A Naval First
Jan 01, 2025
Pre-Dreadnoughts at Jutland
Dec 18, 2024
The Battle of the Falklands
Dec 11, 2024
Coronel - The first defeat
Dec 04, 2024
U-boats or Warships?
Nov 27, 2024
The first turret warships and the loss of the Captain
Nov 20, 2024
The tale of SS Mount Temple
Nov 13, 2024
Attacking Martinique and Guadeloupe (1810)
Nov 06, 2024
Neuland - U-boats strike the Caribbean
Oct 30, 2024
Rodney's sacking of St Eustace 1781
Oct 23, 2024
The White Swan - the raiding career of SMS Emden
Oct 12, 2024
Bombing Akagi
Oct 09, 2024
The Battle of the Two Liners
Sep 25, 2024
Audacious defeat
Sep 11, 2024
The torpedo boat S.90's war service
Aug 28, 2024
When was the last time the Hood's guns fired?
Aug 14, 2024
Lost in the sands
Jul 31, 2024
Operation Wikinger
Jul 17, 2024
Ticking Time bomb
Jul 03, 2024
The tragedy of the Princess Alice disaster
Jun 26, 2024
The Kriegsmarine strike on D-Day
Jun 05, 2024
Bismarck's end
May 27, 2024
The Loss of HMS Glatton
May 22, 2024
Left to die
May 08, 2024