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- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:02:19Why early containerisation would require changes beyond the shipQ&A
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- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:08Low-observable shipping and suppressing the sensors that find itNotable Point
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:33:23Why fast liners make expensive armed merchant cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:34:28Peacetime roles for merchant shipgirlsQ&A
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...3:43:02Red Sea merchant protection and crossing interceptsNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:21:46Making sea lines of communication visible to the publicNotable Point
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers1:03:12The 1928 Merchant Marine Act widened the Navy's experience baseNotable Point
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:40Wartime shipping limits and the Bengal famine debateNotable Point
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)33:44A-150 construction competes with cruisers and fleet balanceNotable Point
- No Pearl Harbor: Japan Enters WWII without attacking America25:52Several incidents can bring America into the warChapter
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?1:47:02Submarine container ships and the commercial purpose of shippingNotable Point
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:03:41How early could a fast ocean liner reach 27 knots?Q&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:45Why fast ocean liners largely lost their marketQ&A
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:55:16Why the Navy could not empty a merchant crewChapter
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:57:13Merchant wages and false impressment alarmsNotable Point
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:09:02Embargo, blockade, and maritime quarantineQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:10:57From sacks and tramp steamers to mechanized bulk shippingQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:08:32Naval control does not solve merchant war-risk insuranceNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality28:08Some merchant captains exploited fear of the pressNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality32:45The merchant marine was the Navy's peacetime reserveChapter
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...44:05One nuclear merchant ship will not unlock widespread port accessQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:35:17Why RFA pay competes with an international labor marketNotable Point
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:46Cunard's overseas construction and wartime merchant supportNotable Point
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:55:50How an early Big Inch pipeline would reduce coastal tanker dependenceQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:22:52Why containerized Q-ships are hard to concealQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:50:37Civilian uses for StanFlex-style modulesQ&A
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- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...3:32:08Strategic sealift, prepositioning, and the risks of used shipsChapter
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...5:10:22British amphibious lift extended beyond dedicated warshipsNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:11:08Tankers may wait for paperwork as well as berth spaceQ&A
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)1:46:49Pacific interests and a return to naval diplomacyNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:29How the Royal Navy checked the East India Company at seaNotable Point
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:44:34Modern-sized Panama and Kiel canals before the warQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:39Why civilian nuclear shipping needs a shore-side industryNotable Point
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:46:51Port access and crew costs in nuclear merchant shippingNotable Point
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:21:16The best merchant ship for a nuclear-power demonstratorQ&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:32:35Why clipper speed did not make an ideal warshipNotable Point
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- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:14:43Auxiliaries and adaptable merchant ships support larger fleetsNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:16:29Radar-equipped merchant ships become potent raidersNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More13:10American neutral trade and Anglo-French maritime pressureNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More22:14Roosevelt's evidence shifts from impressment to confiscationNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More26:20Why taking a few topmen could cripple a merchant crewNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:33:06Longer-range merchant ships, oil, and payment in dollarsNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:04:06Warship trials must reproduce deliberate human threatsNotable Point
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?52:11Dockyard investment makes rapid refitting possibleNotable Point
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…33:02Capturing Taiwan intact increases the ground-force burdenChapter
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:34:31Missile containers, merchant-ship targeting, and concealmentQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:11Could dummy containers conceal a missile ship?Q&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:42:02More plausible hosts for containerized military systemsNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:54:12Venezuelan oil tankers after a change of governmentQ&A
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...1:07:38Royal Navy floatplanes extend global sea controlChapter
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics18:19Merchant self-defense still needs maintainers at seaNotable Point
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII15:16Shipyard investment offered Depression-era employmentNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...1:59:41Infrastructure capacity and the Bengal famine responseNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit2:10:05Convoys required escorts, funding, and political supportChapter
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates27:05A layered escort model for modern convoysQ&A
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- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)59:20Would merchant raiders return in a China-US war?Q&A
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- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust9:00:40The historical distinction between a wharf and a quayQ&A
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- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust3:06:55IMO remit, operating costs, and possible local port standardsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust9:56:25Distinguishing an anti-piracy escort from a privateerQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust11:09:09A later sailing warship in the early sixteenth centuryQ&A
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- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:44:44Rebuilding Britain's 1946-1960 logistics networkQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II8:54:50A family recollection of defending a merchant ship from a raiderNotable Point
- Key Books: Prof Andrew Lambert's "No More Napoleons!"18:36Privateer losses made trade defense a national commitmentNotable Point
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- What happens if Japan persues Synthetic Fuels from 1930 onwards?30:32Blockade lessons reshape Japanese planningNotable Point
- Fairey Barracuda: A Tale of Engine Metalurgy, Government Lethargy & Too Late Entropy52:07Industrial capacity is a long-lead military capabilityChapter
- Fairey Barracuda: A Tale of Engine Metalurgy, Government Lethargy & Too Late Entropy53:38Merchant construction can keep naval shipyards aliveNotable Point
- William the Conqueror's Fleet of 1066; What was it? Where did it come from? Where did it go?33:17Why William's invasion fleet disappearedChapter
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:57:12Why ammonia is a difficult fuel for shipsQ&A
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:08:45Why sail-assisted cargo ships remain difficultQ&A
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?5:52Coral Sea logistics and the fast-tanker shortageChapter
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut1:53:42Smaller wartime cargo ships with electric pod drivesQ&A
- Cultural Drivers of National Military Organisation/Structure - a quick guide...21:04How shipping routes carry global tradeNotable Point
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...4:32The skilled-labor bottleneck behind Liberty ship productionChapter
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...15:59Practical Liberty ship design accepts speed and welding tradeoffsChapter
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...18:21Liberty ships become the blood vessels of global warNotable Point
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...19:27American merchant shipbuilding becomes a national megaprojectNotable Point
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...39:24Liberty ship speed fits ordinary convoy deliveryChapter
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:45:33Why modern navies still train and equip boarding partiesQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:11Why the Swordfish sank so much Axis shippingQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:13:34Why Britain could not keep its wartime fleet in peacetimeQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:50:29Converting modern cruise ships into troop transportsQ&A
- Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...31:30Operation MB8 as a fleet logistics systemChapter
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft1:35:26Why a container ship suits support conversion betterQ&A
- Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...1:14:19German naval preparations outpace BritainChapter
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:19:10Containerized shipping in the world warsQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:42:32Why every lost steamship returning would paralyze world tradeQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:27:02Royal Navy logistics before pallets and containersQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:36:53Warship and merchant communications in the FalklandsQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:55:32Could Romulan warships double as cargo carriers?Q&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:48:14Liberty ships and their Victory ship successorsQ&A
- Admiral Duncan: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Tower of Power25:49Saint-Malo as the decisive amphibious contrastNotable Point
- Admiral Duncan: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Tower of Power41:06The Dundas connection and the Navy's merchant intelligence networkNotable Point
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:29Japan trades later Yamatos for convoy escortsQ&A
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- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?1:10:20A legacy pom-pom still downs a veteran Condor raiderNotable Point
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- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:09:34Earlier convoys and a more resilient imperial networkNotable Point
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:21:24Would earlier convoys guarantee Lusitania's survival?Notable Point
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:47What American merchant captures achieved in the War of 1812Q&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...35:27Why East India Company convoys were difficult frigate targetsQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...37:50Why escaping an American port did not evade the British blockadeQ&A
- Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?1:04:51Japan captured more islands than its logistics could fortifyNotable Point
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- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!1:33:28Protecting the East India convoy and sponsoring JervisChapter
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!1:58:58How prize money treated captured warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...continued5:10German commercial shipbuilding under naval treatiesQ&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...continued26:16Which ships were the most successful surface raiders?Q&A
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?25:31War emptied the Mediterranean of easy targetsChapter
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?38:02Leonardo da Vinci became the leading non-German Axis boatNotable Point
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?40:21Italian Atlantic results were broader than a few acesNotable Point
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer1:17:28Rodney's high-speed encounter with GneisenauChapter
- The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 19411:12:27Why the demonstration fleet avoids the great-circle routeQ&A
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- The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 19412:31:50Why the Doolittle Raid force attacked Japanese picket trawlersQ&A
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- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!3:52:41Richard I's Crusade fleet of cogsQ&A
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- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:09:59Could Britain and America revive merchant shipbuilding competition?Q&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:30:50Why reopening US shipyards requires more than demandQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:51:43Could an Odin-class coastal-defense ship become a freighter?Q&A
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- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?25:39Trade protection was an insurance argumentChapter
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?56:19A British loss table survived through American recordsNotable Point
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?57:38Early merchant losses had cumulative strategic costsNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...42:37Why a Panama Canal collision scenario failsQ&A
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'1:25:13Noble service rests on maritime investmentChapter
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:12:18Why a convoy commodore does not command the escortsNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...2:17:57Sail assistance and merchant-ship propulsion costsNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!12:14Why pipelines and land borders do not replace shippingNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea45:47Why empty return convoys still matteredNotable Point
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership4:10:45Why letters of marque could return only in a severe shipping shortageQ&A
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…2:05Convoy origins and mutual defense at seaChapter
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…9:40British trade data and the First World War convoy debateChapter
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…14:09Convoy plans must follow the ships already availableNotable Point
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…17:06Measure convoy success by cargo deliveredNotable Point
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…19:49Why convoys disrupt just-in-time shippingChapter
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…48:02Could modern ports support wartime convoys?Notable Point
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?57:50Why nuclear merchant ships struggle economicallyQ&A
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- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 57:46Canal mining and the risk of a wider Black Sea shipping warNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 525:15The Red Sea exposes the problem of protecting globalized shippingChapter
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 538:23Oil endurance challenged Britain's coaling networkNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 541:14Crew costs weakened America's postwar merchant expansionNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 51:34:52China links shipyards, merchant shipping, naval growth, and overseas portsNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202448:09When convoys began and why technology has not made them obsoleteQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202454:21Why merchant crews, not hulls, become the wartime bottleneckNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20241:45:31How close unrestricted submarine warfare brought Britain to starvationQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20241:53:47Why Liberty ships were essential and an interwar merchant race could have changed the AtlanticQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20242:36:20Why American merchant-ship investment mattered before entry into the warQ&A
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- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...4:07:20Why surface raiders preferred lone merchant shipsQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...4:32:13Liberty ships adapted British precedent to American mass productionQ&A
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- Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...22:49Merchant-radio incompatibility during the Falklands WarNotable Point
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- Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates50:38Delft showed why fourth rates suited Dutch naval conditionsChapter
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting52:29The 1916 Battle of Dover Strait exposes a thinned patrolChapter
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:14:20A practical evacuation theory for the Mary CelesteQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:21:30German refugees strengthened Allied science and shipbuildingQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/44:08:25Were the game's German-controlled Liberty ships historical?Q&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/45:26:50Why a peer war creates an escort-numbers crisisQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/458:07Why Victorian Britain relied on liners for amphibious transportQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:15:50Why nuclear submarines cannot replace the surface fleetQ&A
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1082:52:31The most embarrassing way to expose Kido ButaiQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 74:43A British carrier force changes the Singapore counterattackQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:39:19Containerization needed an earlier start to change Lend-LeaseQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:42:28Tax breaks did not create a faster British merchant fleetQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song40:57Reopening 1908 ports after an Azur Lane attackQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.4:00:44Would missing canals favour nuclear-powered cargo ships?Q&A
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?7:41A missing Panama shifts trade away from the Pacific coastNotable Point
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?12:46World trade is a network of viable stopsChapter
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?18:23Small steamers feed the major trading hubsNotable Point
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?52:02Panama streamlines Pacific war logisticsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!33:02Empire, free navies, and merchant fleets in world warNotable Point
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin1:19:00A carrier capability needs an industrial ecosystemChapter
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!3:16:09Containerized shipping in the First World WarQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!3:38:18How fuel-free capital ships reshape Britain's war economyQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat1:20:40Why an interwar cash-for-scrap scheme would not transform cargo shipsQ&A
- Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier20:06Why Britain initially limited submarine targetsChapter
- Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?1:03:20Canal disruption versus attacking carriersNotable Point
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!54:58A survivorless Titanic disaster changes evidence and regulationQ&A
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 121:45Why continuous warship orders preserve industrial skillsNotable Point
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!24:31Signal flags for fleets and merchant convoysQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:39:21Warships carrying cargo in the age of sailQ&A
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests48:47The Chesapeake range tested air defense claims as well as bombsNotable Point
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice1:10:19Malta convoy success and its costNotable Point
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice1:13:38When a damaged merchant ship still counted as successQ&A
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice2:15:41Emptying Grand Harbour for the next convoyNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:49:38Mine losses depend on what remains at seaNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:41:20Edward Seymour instead of Fisher in 1914Notable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19383:05:15Why the RFA needed few dedicated colliersQ&A
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- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History29:01Shipping losses expose India's dependence on sea transportNotable Point
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History41:08A peaceful Pacific supports trade and supplies for North AfricaNotable Point
- What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!1:02:50Trade maps explain why Britain wants different carriersNotable Point
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- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...18:58A friendly Japan releases Indian Ocean shippingNotable Point
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- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier1:45:22Eight minutes from first descent to disasterChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism48:18Port gossip and silver protection create an intelligence networkChapter
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation34:34World War I Germany had the stronger base for naval innovationNotable Point
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:00:50Commerce war is measured against replacement capacityNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait48:52Japanese withdrawal exposes pilot, industrial, and convoy-defense shortagesChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait58:00Coastal shipping can relieve roads and move heavy freight efficientlyNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books27:10Why armed merchant ships carried carronadesQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:41:04Rubymar's loss and the case for earlier salvageQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered4:09:00Private ship funding and merchant ships hired for warQ&A
- Check Campaign 6: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign8:16Reducing transport losses in UADQ&A
- HMS Unicorn: Honestly Not An Aircraft Carrier - Key Ship Series 8, Ship 11:02:59Unicorn deters gunboats in the Taiwan StraitNotable Point
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:09:34A mobile phone explains why maritime trade mattersQ&A
- The Other 7th of December Harbour Attack: Operation Frankton, aka the Cockleshell Heroes2:39:56Why the attacked ships' origins remain uncertainQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:18:43British armed merchantmen used naval gun parties rather than a separate Armed GuardQ&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:03:00World War I exposed the need for purpose-built small escortsChapter
- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 71:08:22Seraph's first Mediterranean patrol and unresolved ramming claimNotable Point
- 'T' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's Ambush Predators - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 651:51HMS Turbulent's intensive fifteen-month warChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 250:12Escort carriers versus merchant-hull scarcityNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 257:34Procurement as a way to reduce merchant lossesNotable Point
- If not Pearl Harbour?1:57:39How could civilians leave the Far East?Q&A
- Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 327:06Bruiser from Salerno to merchant serviceNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Four Random Books 30 - Courage37:02Clearing San Carlos protects ships but disrupts the landing forceChapter
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?15:49Convoy opposition also came from commercial logisticsChapter
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?29:42Lütjens took two battleships out to attack tradeChapter
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?39:11HX convoy statistics challenge the popular Atlantic narrativeNotable Point
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?1:09:00The Sierra Leone convoy route linked trade protection and fleet responseNotable Point
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?56:40Surface raiders turned convoy protection into a two-threat problemChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?1:06:01HX convoy statistics reveal a durable Atlantic supply systemChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?1:55:52How much speed helped merchants against submarines?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:08:49The raiders shifted from protected convoys to dispersed shippingChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:09:51SL convoy figures show both resilience and the limits of the recordChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:33:39Captured tankers were fragile prizes in the AtlanticNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy1:06:16Battlecruisers as economic-warfare toolsChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update14:16A small navy cannot maximize every budgetChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...18:49Why submarine success cannot be read from sinkings aloneNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 101:44:56Defensive minefields still need routes for friendly commerceNotable Point
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:15:30Heavy fuel oil could make machinery almost self-destructiveQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:07:02Phalanx is a more practical containerized defenceQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:04:47Cargo ships will split between practical smaller hulls and larger giantsQ&A
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...14:19Narvik trade could make neutral aircrew internment porousNotable Point
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...43:51Could Britain buy merchant ships from neutral Sweden?Q&A
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...2:56:45How would a shorter war affect Britain?Q&A
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs39:18Torpedo scarcity made gun armament essentialNotable Point
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics2:08:09How long did Atlantic convoys actually take?Q&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics2:57:34Book watch point: convoys in the Napoleonic maritime systemChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 71:53:58Do not open a gap in a convoy screenChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 72:22:16Merchant ships can still carry a stingNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:04:12How one lost cargo can stall wartime productionNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:30:43Why supertankers support a fleet but do not become oneQ&A
- The Underpaid and Underappreciated Merchant Marine of WWII26:19A lost ship could be rebuilt; experienced crews could notChapter
- The Underpaid and Underappreciated Merchant Marine of WWII34:04Engine-room, deck, and catering work kept merchant ships movingChapter
- The Underpaid and Underappreciated Merchant Marine of WWII1:13:58The US Navy Armed Guard put military specialists aboard merchant shipsNotable Point
- The Underpaid and Underappreciated Merchant Marine of WWII1:34:00World War II was a logistics and attrition warChapter
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!50:48Corvettes as escorts for Ukraine’s merchant trafficQ&A
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 210:37HMS Black Swan rescues Empire Star survivorsNotable Point
- Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare27:09Using submarines to blockade BritainChapter
- Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare30:02The 1916 merchant-tonnage calculationChapter
- Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare34:53Why cruiser rules were judged insufficientNotable Point
- Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure13:33The 1651 Act and Dutch commercial powerChapter
- Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure16:27Merchant shipping as naval infrastructureNotable Point
- Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure19:44The First Anglo-Dutch War exposed two kinds of sea powerNotable Point
- Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure24:24The 1660 Act: ships, crews, and enumerated goodsChapter
- Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure48:24Baltic naval stores and maritime securityNotable Point
- Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure1:23:431849 repeal and the power of free tradeChapter
- Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure1:28:05The Jones Act and domestic maritime capacityNotable Point
- Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure1:30:03Flags of convenience and maritime dependenceNotable Point
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy1:39:36The difficult alternatives to bunker fuelQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy2:19:02Recovering global shipping history from private company recordsChapter
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail30:30Why Caribbean trade outweighed the Thirteen ColoniesNotable Point
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail11:49What loss statistics conceal about sea controlNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years1:13:59Dunkirk beyond the small-boats storyNotable Point
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!1:58:41Japanese planning did not expect a long shipping warQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far during #NavHistAus23! Perth Take 2!1:08:03How sailing packets and steam created the liner systemChapter
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?43:15Newfoundland prizes reveal the Atlantic campaignChapter
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?49:45Prizes traded time for intelligenceNotable Point
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:23:30Insurance bounties rewarded recaptured merchant shipsNotable Point
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:27:22A fifty-three-ship Dutch convoy scattersNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 323:09A secondary battery powerful enough for cruisers and commerceNotable Point
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation3:44:39Container modules could give merchant ships point defenceQ&A
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation4:01:53Modern naval radars do not always transmit at full powerQ&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)1:54:51Why tankers and ammunition ships matter mostNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus1:10:02Waterborne trade and the vulnerability of coastal shippingChapter
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus1:13:03Why merchant shipping creates demand for a navyChapter
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:07:03What distinguishes a naval tankerQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:35:08Baltic convoys and disguised British tradeChapter
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:37:03The enormous scale of Baltic convoy protectionNotable Point
- Nuclear Power: Not All About Rickover16:13Why nuclear merchant ships remain rareNotable Point
- Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/210:27Imperial trade restrictions and merchant shippingNotable Point
- Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/213:44Captured shipping and wartime transport capacityNotable Point
- Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/217:19British shipping replaces Spanish commercial powerNotable Point
- Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/250:03Brown builds a River Plate packet serviceChapter
- Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters2:48:41Fast liners and the cost of escortQ&A
- Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters2:56:15British capacity to build RMMV OceanicNotable Point
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword2:32:44Defeat and merchant interests drove Song naval expansionChapter
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century47:37Why German UC II minelayers mattered in the First World WarChapter
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century50:35UB III mass production and Germany's coastal pressure in 1917-18Chapter
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century52:15How coastal convoy geography and shipbuilding shaped the submarine contestNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:33:18The overlooked submarine war in the Indian OceanNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:39:31Pacific submarines: offensive defense depends on logisticsChapter
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:42:13One submarine's passage through three Axis naviesTranscript Excerpt
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)1:16:50Silence, surprise, or merchants willing to sellNotable Point
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)2:29:56William Brown’s merchant success and a biography full of puzzlesChapter
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)2:39:39Captain in merchant service, navigator in a warshipQ&A
- Bombardment of Ellwood32:03Why tankers also need escort shipsQ&A
- Bombardment of Ellwood44:30What I-17's 5.5-inch deck gun could doNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood1:39:34The Peter Iredale wreck beside Fort StevensNotable Point
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:08:10Asama Maru demonstrates the reach of British shipping intelligenceNotable Point
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:16:50Could Japan make Britain look like the aggressor?Q&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History2:16:54Putting Battle of the Atlantic shipping losses in scaleNotable Point
- Steam Engines: Part 2 Steeple to Turbines37:48Why Liberty ships used triple-expansion enginesNotable Point
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?28:02The liner fleet as a Channel landing optionNotable Point
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?2:21:30The troop convoy also destroys Germany's merchant fleetNotable Point
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:43:43An uncrewed warship is not automatically abandonedQ&A
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?14:29Surface raiders and submarine dilemmasNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?1:19:14Naval strategy as procurement strategyChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?1:21:10How raiders could remove shipping without sinking itNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...2:55:26Navigation lights in a blacked-out convoyQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:08:18French trade geography undermined the Deutschland raiding missionNotable Point
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)27:03Merchant shipping, royal escort duty, and Diadem's public purposeNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers1:26:40A raider could damage the global economy without sinking every merchant shipChapter
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 229:17A counterfactual intervention escalates far beyond VenezuelaNotable Point
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations39:16Modern cruise ships in a world-war convoy systemQ&A
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations1:41Why trade-protection carriers stalled before the warChapter
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations10:33Convoy survival is the measure of anti-submarine successNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations27:13Unicorn exposes the shipyard case for merchant conversionNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations33:28Reasonable assumptions hide the escort-carrier requirementChapter
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations36:10MAC ships bridge the gap to true escort carriersNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations44:20Winchester Castle shows the scale of a multi-role conversionNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations58:47PQ 18 shields Avenger inside its air-defence formationNotable Point
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations18:35Why the Board of Trade resisted merchant-carrier conversionsNotable Point
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations37:09Convoy defense is measured by arrivals, not U-boats sunkChapter
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations1:10:43How MAC ships preserved cargo capacityChapter
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations1:37:02Did an Arctic storm peel back a MAC ship's deck?Q&A
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?2:52:33Could safer shipping alter the Bengal famine?Notable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 350:59British submarines and Japan's inadequate escort fleetQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 33:04:42Why a 500-ship IJN escort program was unrealisticQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4222:05Oil-tanker diversion had already narrowed Japan's optionsNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:32:34Modular reactors and nuclear-powered shipsQ&A
- Tre Kronor Class: Because the Swedish had a lot of Bofors guns to use..22:17Göta Lejon, Chilean service, and the value of presenceChapter
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:06:16How 26-knot freighters would change Atlantic convoysQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:44:10Why modern submarines are costly commerce raidersQ&A
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19412:05The Free Norwegian Navy's practical wartime missionsChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War1:19:27Auxiliary cruisers carry the war to Puerto RicoChapter
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:05:49Estimating Oceanic's troopship capacityQ&A
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193911:19The missing logistics behind the Southern Resource AreaChapter
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books44:03Why modern cruise ships make poor wartime transportsQ&A
- Ruse de guerre24:17Surface raiders must outrun reports as well as shipsNotable Point
- Ruse de guerre25:42Ocean-liner speed exposes warship endurance limitsNotable Point
- Ruse de guerre39:19Postwar Flower-sloop voyages raise an intelligence questionNotable Point
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare32:22Pirate speed depended on careening and illicit supplyNotable Point
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare45:13Why Captain Hill escaped punishmentQ&A
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare1:10:50Pulo Aura's bluff risked merchant hulls and cargoNotable Point
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare1:15:45Dance did not plan a sacrificial last standQ&A
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less12:06Commerce warfare fills the gap after fleet attackChapter
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine37:33Mediterranean geography narrows the cruiser missionChapter
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions29:01How wartime merchant fleets reshape shipyard demandQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions32:29Queen Mary as the surviving interwar linerQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions1:46:07Why global war would rapidly disrupt merchant shippingQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:28:10Britain's limited commercial shipbuilding baseQ&A
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:09:18Henry Brownrigg and the mortal risk of convoy commandNotable Point
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:16:13What an ON convoy designation meantQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:17:10Ocean-class cargo ships and wartime logisticsChapter
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:34:29Ocean, Liberty, and Victory cargo-ship tradeoffsQ&A
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy25:55Why the Admiralty sold charts beyond the fleetQ&A
- Sieges of Malta: Patreon 51 (Long Patrol)50:04The Axis price of trying to neutralize MaltaNotable Point
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)18:38Canarias as Nationalist flagship in the Civil WarNotable Point
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)25:13From Príncipe Alfonso to Libertad and GaliciaNotable Point
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)27:16Threat and neutral custody remove two merchant shipsNotable Point
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)27:07Cargo liners, convoy losses, and the human cost of commerce warChapter
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)29:28Merchant-shipping loss and the limits of family memoryNotable Point
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)34:49Bathurst corvettes and hydrography as naval logisticsNotable Point
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)37:46A Far Eastern war changes Britain's building prioritiesNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:52:02Convoy merchant ships were protected targets, not baitQ&A
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol20:00Königsberg as a reconnaissance flagshipChapter
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World51:12Merchant escorts and escalation in the Black SeaQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World3:35:04A visual history of Thames shipping and the Port of LondonNotable Point
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment1:07:51Why wartime convoys assembled at Sierra LeoneQ&A
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:52:41Why warship losses and maritime disasters use different categoriesNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)0:24Narrative and technical approaches to shipbuilding historyNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)29:04Southampton's continuity as a merchant portChapter
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"2:38:50Why coal-fired merchant ships outlasted the naval transition to oilQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:50:44A surviving Titanic as a wartime troop transportQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)2:15:23Administrative delay could preserve ships before rearmamentQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)1:23:13Japan's merchant-fleet recall signaled imminent warQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)2:22:14Bengal's transport network magnified wartime famineNotable Point
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)2:32:11Force Z nearly reached vulnerable transportsQ&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov4:26:21Soviet naval diplomacy: deployments, logistics, and port accessChapter
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov4:45:45Who controls ships flying flags of convenience in war?Q&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions31:04Oil tankers as a foundation of modern naval logisticsChapter
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore35:19Early oil tankers adapted liquid-cargo practiceQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore1:55:21RFA loss totals depend on ship statusQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore3:28:51Merchant ships could stock secret bases without a special planQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol56:13Nelson's pursuit and Villeneuve's choicesChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:21:03Why claims of one hundred Royal Navy wrecks need checkingQ&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock: Long Patrol6:51Five admiralties in a divided Dutch naval systemChapter
- Battle of Kentish Knock: Long Patrol27:40Fleet composition and merchant-built warshipsChapter
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?1:48:25Mercantilism, industrial capacity, and Japan's convoy weaknessNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/436:06Fushimi, logistics, and the appeal of visible warshipsQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:32:50Merchant hulls can become a wartime transport reserveQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff13:49Counting the tonnage available to supply BritainChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff17:12Why knowing the shipping problem did not produce convoysNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff17:44Poor harvests made every grain voyage longerChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff20:53The assumptions behind Britain’s supply crisisNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff33:50The U-boat war in ships and livesNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (33): The World's Merchant Fleets 19390:23A reference guide to the world's merchant fleets in 1939Chapter
- A Book or Two to Review (33): The World's Merchant Fleets 19393:41Using ship specifications to compare company fleetsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (33): The World's Merchant Fleets 19397:24Limits on converting merchant ships into armed merchant cruisers and escort carriersNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (33): The World's Merchant Fleets 19398:00Tracing wartime merchant losses by nation and causeChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (33): The World's Merchant Fleets 193912:54Shipping-line lists as prompts for further researchNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (33): The World's Merchant Fleets 193915:10The recurring Maru suffix in Japanese merchant-ship namesNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (33): The World's Merchant Fleets 193915:57A long-term reference for merchant-shipping researchChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P8/14: Raffaele de Courten4:40From naval command to Lloyd TriestinoNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz26:45Commerce war and the limits of a convoy claimChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea5:08Non-intervention stretched a weakened Royal NavyChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea25:21How more escorts might have changed the Spanish crisisNotable Point
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper1:35:19Flags of convenience and merchant-crew standardsQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response25:49The Allies treated the Atlantic as a war they had to winNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books29:57The exchange rate of the Battle of the AtlanticQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books59:37African sailors and local troops in British naval serviceQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books3:57:30American unpreparedness and the U-boats' second happy timeNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books4:42:56A quarantine flag obstructs Birmingham's inquiry at TsingtaoNotable Point
- Napoleon's Invasion Scheme: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p3/716:00Converted East Indiamen after battlefleet attritionNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:59:46How merchant shipping answers modern piracyQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books1:35:19The tanker fleet behind a larger Pearl Harbor operationQ&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI45:58Why did British submarines sink less merchant tonnage?Q&A
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune12:29Convoy protection before prize chasingNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune14:01Privateers, letters of marque, and recaptureNotable Point
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword4:00:49The Admiralty's interwar studies of merchant shippingQ&A
- Some More Battle Cruisers18:22Hood survives wartime priorities and Admiralty pressureNotable Point
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?25:05Why C-5 airlift cannot replace Atlantic sealiftQ&A
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?1:15:49Convoys shrink the ocean NATO must defendNotable Point
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?1:44:45Are modern merchant ships worth scarce torpedoes?Q&A
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval18:19What a medieval English navy actually meantChapter
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval21:12Royal expeditions mobilized hundreds of merchant shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval22:08Requisition placed a heavy burden on merchant shipownersChapter
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval22:46High returns balanced the exceptional risk of medieval shippingNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval52:38English wool and French wine illustrate triangular tradeNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval3:15:43Coastal raiding turned the Channel into a war zoneNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy37:19Trade protection helped turn intelligence into a naval institutionNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy52:32Convoy strategy is a problem of usable throughputNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy58:44Personal merchant-sea history reveals strategic systemsChapter
- Bruships 44: Strategy1:03:10Polish destroyers alternated convoy escort and battleship screeningNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy1:43:25Scattered trade routes required more escorts than treaty policy suppliedNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers38:02Far Eastern escorts followed speed and cargoQ&A
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P3/5 Lend Lease from the British Perspective23:44Why British aid was not one-sidedChapter
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P3/5 Lend Lease from the British Perspective26:24How Britain sustained American forces overseasChapter
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P2/5 What was Lend Lease according to the USA2:19Supplying China exposes the limits of maritime accessNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P2/5 What was Lend Lease according to the USA20:14Shipping scarcity turns aid into strategic triageNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P2/5 What was Lend Lease according to the USA34:17Pacific routing saves British shipping for war-zone runsNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease44:54Cash-and-carry favored Britain through geographyNotable Point
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...51:48Why Norway's merchant fleet was a major Allied gainQ&A
- Four Random Books 28: Mavericks8:09Garibaldi's merchant captaincy was evidence of abilityNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 2, Abercrombie Class27:52Industrial capacity let Britain turn surplus guns into monitorsNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P1/7 Sir Patrick Duffy6:15NATO's economy and reinforcement plans depend on Atlantic shippingChapter
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment1:54:38Merchant losses reveal the opening maritime warChapter
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects34:26How Lloyd's shore stations routed ships before radioNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191634:04Why convoyed merchant ships carried limited armamentQ&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191635:28Was the Dutch convoy under-escorted?Q&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:20:39American neutral trade and Britain's need for sailorsNotable Point
- Guadeloupe 1810 (Part 2 of Live)59:40Sugar and cocoa turn sea control into economic powerNotable Point
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 34:53Depression economics shifts British counter-piracy policyChapter
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 333:21Why protection focused on clearly British shippingNotable Point
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East47:13Did merchant ships carry private security teams?Q&A
- Four Random Books 19: A Decade of Brasseys27:51Postwar naval industry in the 1949 annualNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 3: What Aircraft Carriers were for...20:16Far East reconnaissance amid flag and identity confusionNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 4: Result9:19Parliament proposes armed ocean liners as naval auxiliariesChapter
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:45:06How operating assumptions changed the steam-versus-diesel resultChapter
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War22:35Birmingham retrieves Vincent de Paul at TsingtaoChapter
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?36:37Why alliance capacity is not the same as naval presenceQ&A
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?38:05Britain's Far East problem was moving oil, not finding itQ&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:10:03Could Japan have fielded a stronger commerce-raiding force?Q&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:13:50Park and Fort ships as Canada's Liberty-ship equivalentsNotable Point
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:28:37Were fast liners effectively submarine-proof?Q&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint32:20Town-class cruisers as commerce destroyersNotable Point
- Four Random Books 14: Tricky Decisions7:58Greek evacuation convoy complexity and the Scottish Prince rescueChapter
- Patreon 12: “The Battle of Sluys: ...one of the Western World decisive battles"47:16Prize incentives drove the merchant companies forwardNotable Point
- Patreon 12: “The Battle of Sluys: ...one of the Western World decisive battles"1:46:56What separated a medieval cargo ship from a warship?Q&A
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books1:10:51Voyage Into Darkness: rebuilding after Earth's defeatChapter
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books1:12:37Destiny's slave-base raid: disguise, coercion and captureNotable Point
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 1 of 5: Introduction23:30Halvdan Koht and the limits of undefended neutralityNotable Point
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War3:46:26The Norwegian merchant fleet's wartime valueQ&A
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2220:04Article 22: submarines and merchant-ship safetyChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2222:54Why older maritime wars preserved merchant hullsNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2225:25Why submarines struggled to obey prize rulesNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 1 of 5/Articles 1-725:22Why gun-armed submarines threatened commerceNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:11:40U-53's raid beside neutral American destroyersNotable Point
- Four Random Books 7: Dunkirk9:00Why the East Mole became an evacuation lifelineNotable Point
- PQ17: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P3/319:21Why Germany prioritised loaded eastbound shipsNotable Point
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/37:09Flower corvettes: slow but handy convoy escortsNotable Point
- Battle of Atlantic: An Introduction to The Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P1/33:30Shipping tonnage, rationing, and British resilienceChapter
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:44:04A blockade, not an invasion, as the likely war aimNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:56:57G3M air threat versus cruiser interdictionQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:03:12Amphibious ships do not create an armyQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:15:17One amphibious ship cannot move 60,000 troopsNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:39:49How long might blockade take to force surrender?Q&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 439:30A nominally neutral America as a Pacific supply baseNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 442:14American supply convoys create a German strategic dilemmaNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:51:16How container ports complicate wartime convoy logisticsQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P4 Introduction to Patreon Video 4...19:17Supplying a drive toward ShanghaiChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 432:42Moving fighters and bombers to SingaporeNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 443:22Blockade before invasionChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 450:00Prize-taking and the missing Axis pactNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 42:17A merchant sinking starts a Far Eastern crisisChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 413:09HMS Birmingham and proportional retaliationChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 426:02Seizing a liner and getting Birmingham homeNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 419:28The disputed status of SS St Vincent de PaulChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 431:25Uncertain cargo and missing diplomatic recordsNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 439:04Slow negotiations and an eight o'clock deadlineChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 443:27A six-person guard as a naval tripwireChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 453:51Flag jurisdiction and the admiralty-court remedyChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 457:35A daylight pursuit and limited torpedo attackChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A13:29Designing a hypothetical modern privateerQ&A
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest Part 2 of 228:11Far East submarines and the escort dilemmaChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:47:15Merchant ships ramming surfaced U-boatsQ&A
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)5:52The sea lanes that made the Indian Ocean strategicChapter
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)22:51Africa Shell and the limits of Madagascar's defenceNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)52:51Why losing a liner damaged global strategic liftNotable Point
- An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians21:31Testing Gorshkov's merchant-loss arithmeticNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You38:36Tsingtao turns local knowledge into crisis controlNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?52:52Commercial contracts as an escort reserveQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:21:32Modern shipping's convoy shockQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:43:59Italian unification and merchant shippingQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:49:20Why merchant ships use flags of convenienceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:02:27The Jones Act and American coastal shippingQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:00:55Private security in modern maritime danger zonesQ&A
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops27:42PQ 18 measures success by merchant arrivalsChapter
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 1 Corvettes...16:13Measuring Flower-class success by cargo deliveredNotable Point
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 1 of 314:40The SS Vincent de Paul prize dispute at TsingtaoChapter
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:20:03How holding Hawaii would stretch American logisticsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:12:17Liberty and Victory ships carried on into postwar commerceQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:21:56Could stronger advocacy have brought escort carriers sooner?Q&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?24:01Endurance for global convoy escortChapter
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full30:40Norwegian neutrality as a strategic dilemmaChapter
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full41:26How Norwegian inspections missed Altmark's prisonersNotable Point
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video42:58Trade routes explain worldwide cruiser deploymentChapter
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video19:19Every merchant attack gives a raider awayNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video1:20:27Sinking Doric Star exposes Graf Spee and consumes ammunitionChapter
- Day 3 of the Montevideo Diplomatic Battle, the 16th of December 1939 - A River Plate 80 Video1:00British surveillance tracks any move by Graf SpeeChapter
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video46:07The battle becomes a chase toward MontevideoChapter
- SS Streonhalh; the Last Victim of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video0:02Why SS Streonhalh was a valuable prizeChapter
- SS Tairoa - A River Plate 80 Video0:16Why refrigerated cargo ships mattered in 1939Chapter
- SS Tairoa - A River Plate 80 Video1:02Tairoa's Brisbane-to-London cargo routeNotable Point
- SS Doric Star - A River Plate 80 Video0:29Doric Star as a costly prize for Admiral Graf SpeeChapter
- Surface Raider Conundrum - A River Plate 80 Video7:17Graf Spee's sinkings against a total of 2,712 merchant shipsNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)5:08Merchant shipping, naval commands, and a mechanized armyNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)35:53HMS Birmingham's Tsingtao showdownNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)38:11HMS Liverpool and the Asama Maru interceptionNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)39:53Defending Singapore while cruisers attacked Japanese tradeNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)49:06Fleet-train ambitions versus merchant-shipping demandsNotable Point
- SS Africa Shell & Switch Back - A River Plate 80 Video4:19Prize-law paperwork documented Graf Spee's sinkingsNotable Point
- RN Commands in 1939 - A River Plate 80 Video1:26Why a European war became global at seaNotable Point
- Back Pocket Cruisers Presentation (Practice 2)17:42HMS Cossack's Altmark boarding freed captured merchant seamenChapter