This week’s #podcast is out;
What is a blockade? What are the types of blockade? Why did it work against Germany in #ww1 and how it might affect the Strait of #Hormusz?
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Off the back of this, I decided to collate some of my all-time favourite propaganda prints from the early 20th century, with a bit of historical context for each.
All Allied, of course, because frankly fascism can go do one.
As it is #Titanic week…
Who was the Titanic’s third officer, the one who is rarely mentioned? This is the story of Mr Pitman.
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#history
I haven’t (yet) though it is on my list! I’m off to Liverpool in May and hoping to have time to see their U-boat
This week’s podcast is out!
How did the Battle of Britain impact one small rural village in Kent?
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#history #ww2 #Luftwaffe
You’d think so but…
Or a Bf 109
4 years anniversary of the sinking of the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, the cruiser Moskva
The SS 'La Touraine'
The Titanic replies to 'La Touraine' thanking her for her information. The Titanic gives her position and said that they had had fair weather. #titanic
On 16 May I’ll be talking about the German naval experience at Jutland during the CPMH War at Sea Conference 2026
I was really surprised to be asked and I’m blown away to be in such a line up
Really looking forward to speaking & it is open to the public.
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So this week’s feature concludes the story of Peter Zschech’s time on U-505 through the multiple sabotages, combat fatigue and eventual death
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#history #uboat #navalhistory #ww2
#otd 1940, FAA Skua dive bombers sink the light cruiser Konigsberg in Bergen harbour
#history #ww2 #navalhistory
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Royal Navy destroyer HMS Hardy, lost at Narvik on 10 April 1940. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. Description: a starboard side profile view of a destroyer under way in the open sea.
10 Apr 1940 // Destroyer HMS Hardy was heavily damaged fighting to her last torpedo and shell against German destroyers off Narvik, and capsized after being beached. 32 men died. Captain B A W Warburton-Lee was awarded a posthumous VC. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
Royal Navy destroyer HMS Hunter, lost at Narvik on 10 April 1940. Imperial War Museum image: FL 10190. Description: a three-quarter view from off the starboard bow of a destroyer in coastal waters with wooded hills visible in the background.
10 Apr 1940 // Destroyer HMS Hunter, already damaged during combat with German destroyers, was accidentally struck from behind by HMS Hotspur off Narvik, and capsized and sank. 107 of her crew were lost, a further 5 later died of wounds. (Imperial War Museum FL 10190) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
This week’s free to read is the lightship LV 21 in pictures and a bit about a near career ending collision.
#history
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Hardly embarrassing defeats in the grand scheme of things, however the episode focuses on the Commerce raiding campaigns rather than the fresh water campaigns
This week’s podcast asks the question - did the Royal Navy experience an embarrassing defeat in the War of 1812?
Nope
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#history #navalhistory #podcast
Unknown U-boat crewman from my collection.
#ww2 #uboat #navalhistory #history
Part two is now written and scheduled… that was a tough 5000 words!
That’s what I put in the original post on Instagram but the Bluesky limit meant things had to be cut
Happy Easter! A trip back into the archives of my PhD research for today’s article, looking at how a WW1 soldier might experience and relate to the Easter story, with help from the YMCA.
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ORP Btyskawica and ORP Grom in Copenhagen 1938
I put that in the original Instagram post but had to trim it a bit for Bluesky 😉
This week’s feature is part one of an examination of one U-boat Captain and his command style negatively impacted the crew and almost led to disaster.
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#ww2 #history #navalhistory #uboat
USS England (DE-635) Sank six Japanese submarines in May 1944, winning a Presidential Unit Citation.
Used with spectacular success by the USS England in the Pacific, sinking six Japanese submarines between May 13-May 27, 1944. On the last attack, four other destroyer escorts made Hedgehog attacks on a sub before the group commander signalled "Oh, hell. Go ahead England." She sank the sub.
The “Hedgehog” was an anti U-boat weapon developed by the Royal Navy through 1941 and employed from 1942 onwards.
The weapon fires24 spigot mortar shells over the front of the destroyer to target what was, usually, a blind spot for depth charges.
#history #ww2 #navalhistory
This week’s free to read is on the Battle of #Auschwitz & #Birkenau in 1866 between a Prussian led force and an Austrian garrison.
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#history
This week’s podcast is the story of the German cruiser, Victoria-Louise, her origins and career.
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#history #navalhistory
No but I do work at the birthplace of the Victory… also we had that issue with the Dutch in ‘67
The war of 1812 stuff fits into my commerce raider stuff, naval blockades, fleets in being, naval logistics all fit into the German stuff 🤷🏼♂️
The Wicher class destroyers ORP Wicher and Burza of the Polish Navy in Helsinki in August 1934.
Wicher would be lost in the German invasion of Poland whereas Burza escaped and served with the Royal Navy.
#ww2 #polishnavy #navalhistory
