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Maximilian Von Spee

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    1:09:54Mexican bases for von Spee, Goeben and BreslauNotable Point
  2. Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    23:58A personal ranking of German admiralsQ&A
  3. Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!
    13:32Cradock received cruisers unsuited to von SpeeChapter
  4. What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?
    1:09:08How distributed battlecruisers could constrain German wartime movementsNotable Point
  5. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    8:02:02Hipper and von Spee share a baseline but differ in initiativeQ&A
  6. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    1:57:26Could forward-based battlecruisers trap von Spee at Tsingtao?Notable Point
  7. Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?
    44:08Coronel confirmed the wrong British stereotypeNotable Point
  8. Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…
    39:44Clearing surface raiders exposed a submarine problemNotable Point
  9. The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 9
    38:28Henry Pelly and the rapid creation of a reliable crewChapter
  10. Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo
    1:15:19How reconstruction moved Kongō toward a fast battleshipChapter
  11. Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'
    56:08Two Tiger Cubs could reverse the Battle of CoronelChapter
  12. Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'
    1:22:48Dogger Bank could remove both German leaders and safety lessonsNotable Point
  13. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...
    3:22:23Hipper is the strongest Kaiserliche Marine carrier candidateQ&A
  14. Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?
    59:00A Mediterranean victory frees a battlecruiser for CoronelChapter
  15. Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!
    2:00:34Where von Spee might serve after an early recallQ&A
  16. Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:13:58What HMS Dreadnought might change at CoronelNotable Point
  17. Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote
    1:12:30A US Navy squadron to hunt von SpeeQ&A
  18. Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins
    2:05:06Von Spee's squadron and radio direction findingQ&A
  19. Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?
    51:45A stronger cruiser force before CoronelNotable Point
  20. Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built
    4:09:11What Germany gains if von Spee returns before the warQ&A
  21. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    2:12:49Giving Cradock the ships needed to face von SpeeQ&A
  22. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    58:07Why Coronel was a force-concentration failureQ&A
  23. Scharnhorst Class: The Quality of the Kaiserliche Marine - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 6
    1:50Balanced armored cruisers before SMS BlücherChapter
  24. Scharnhorst Class: The Quality of the Kaiserliche Marine - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 6
    32:34Could Spee's cruisers have served better elsewhere?Notable Point
  25. Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &11
    26:07Battlecruiser ambitions behind the conversionChapter
  26. Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...
    1:58:11Von Spee’s squadron cannot rescue the American Pacific positionNotable Point
  27. Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat
    25:34Von Spee's last tactical optionQ&A
  28. Battle of Coronel in Retrospect
    55:08Von Spee's seaborne escape problemChapter
  29. Battle of Coronel in Retrospect
    2:39:18Glasgow triggers the Coronel contact chainChapter
  30. Battle of Coronel in Retrospect
    3:24:29Did von Spee expect a vengeful British hunt?Q&A
  31. Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat
    3:53:02A successful Spee return would reshape German naval commandQ&A
  32. Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat
    4:02:49How Spee might slip home along NorwayNotable Point
  33. Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...
    36:45Port Stanley if von Spee arrived before SturdeeQ&A
  34. Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine
    0:55Admiral von Spee and a lost cruiser influenceNotable Point
  35. Battle of Coronel: A Collapse of Command & Control
    18:39Von Spee's diplomacy and squadron trainingNotable Point
  36. Battle of Coronel: A Collapse of Command & Control
    19:21What if Von Spee had returned to Germany?Q&A
  37. Battle of Coronel: A Collapse of Command & Control
    1:25:22Von Spee's victory makes retaliation inevitableNotable Point
  38. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)
    3:26:57If von Spee surrendered at the Falkland IslandsQ&A
  39. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)
    26:48If von Spee commanded the High Seas FleetQ&A
  40. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    53:00Von Spee's Falklands attack as a desperate coal gambleNotable Point
  41. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    1:00:17What if von Spee had brought his squadron home?Q&A
  42. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    1:08:25Should von Spee have driven the whole squadron into Port Stanley?Q&A
  43. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    1:14:32Why Germany could neither hold nor safely withdraw its overseas squadronQ&A
  44. Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 1915
    38:16Beatty and Hipper bring different command weaknessesChapter
  45. Bruships 26 - The Random Collection
    3:51:08Coronel and the Falklands as a naval filmQ&A
  46. The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard
    1:35:30How cruiser scarcity shaped CoronelQ&A
  47. Four Random Books 8: Churchill
    9:50Spee aborts the Port Stanley attackNotable Point
  48. WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol
    25:54The fragile strength of the East Asia SquadronChapter
  49. 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:47:31Von Spee's narrow options after CoronelQ&A
  50. Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:32:51Von Spee's light-cruiser commerce-raiding dilemmaQ&A
  51. Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:40:47What if Spee had taken his squadron into the Indian Ocean?Q&A