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Battle Of Jutland : The Boy Hero And The Shark
Admiral Beatty's Battle Cruisers continue to get pummelled by the Germans as they run to the north
Battle of Jutland: Attack of the Sea Cossacks
The British ship fleet had been pummelled during the Run to the South, and their trouble was only just beginning. They were not just fighting Hipper and his battle-cruisers, but the entire German…
Battle Of Jutland : There Is Something Wrong With Our Ships
The Battle of Jutland can be separated into three main sections. The first of these was the clash between the Battle Cruisers under Admiral Beatty and those under Admiral Hipper known as the Run to…
Battle Of Jutland : Battle Plans
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder said that: "no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force". However, no force can go into action without one, even…
Ruling the Airwaves : Naval Intelligence before the Battle of Jutland
The sea is a big place. Before you can fight an enemy at sea you first need to be able to find them. You also need to take them by surprise. Both of these relied on an information war being waged out…
Battle of Dogger Bank : Kingdom Come or 10 Days Leave
The Battle of Dogger Bank was the battle before the battle of Jutland when the Royal Navy turned a German trap into a trap for the Germans, who then learned a very very important lesson about…
Baby Killers : The Raid On Scarborough, Hartlepool And Whitby
At the start of WW1 German Navy was trying to lure part of the Royal Navy out so that they could wage a war of attrition at sea similar to the one happening in the fields of Flanders. They planned a…
Battle Of Heligoland Bight : The Royal Navy Goes On The Offensive
The British devised a plan to ambush German destroyers on their daily patrols. The Germans send out cruisers to thinking that it is just a raid by British destroyers, not understanding quite how much…
World War One: the first shots of the great war
In 1914 a former ferry set out on a secret mission with a deadly cargo, which would lead to the first British shots fired during the First World War. An annotated version of the script and all of the…
West Africa Squadron: Cudjo, The Last Man Kidnapped To America
As the Victorian period went on the net tightened around the Atlantic slave trade. Cudjo Lewis was on the last ship that managed to make the trip from Africa to America. This is his story.
West Africa Squadron : Seeing Stars
The United States banned the slave trade in the same year that Britain did. It Looking at why demonstrates the reason that the West African Squadron was so important. An annotated script and sources…
west African squadron : cuba libre
At one point Cuba was one of the largest markets for slaves, but this time the Royal Navy's West African Squadron couldn't strong arm them into abolition the way that they had with Brazil. This time…
West African Squadron : The Raid On Paranagua
In the 1850s Royal Navy raided into Brazilian ports in order to capture slave trading vessels. This was a blatant violation of international law daring the Brazilians to fight them. The Brazilians…
West African Squadron : Joseph Denman Lights Up The Gallinas
Joseph Denman was a naval officer and a passionate abolitionist. He hated the slave traders operating out of the Gallinas, but he had a solution: fire ... lots of fire. All the sources for this video…
Premier Kru : the west africans who fought the slave trade
The West African Squadron was tasked stopping the salve trade by with hunting down slavers and arresting them, but they were not going to stop without a fight. Britain managed to sign treaties with…
Robert Thorpe and the West Africa squadron: the beginning of the end of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Robert Thorpe an early judge at the admiralty court in Sierra Leone, where he set the rules of engagement for the West Africa Squadron as they went out to fight the Atlantic Slave Trade. All the…
Sea of Sand: the Royal Navy in the Sahara Desert during WW1
As Britain entered WW1 The Duke of Westminster was the richest man in the kingdom. He personally paid to raise a squadron of the Royal Naval Armoured Car Division. His squadron was sent to Egypt…
A Sea Of Grass : The Royal Navy On The Russian Steppe during WW1
After the western front became bogged down in the trenches there was not much that the Royal Naval Armoured Card Division could do there. Some ended up at Gallipoli. Some ended up in Africa, but a…
Mud and Blood : the Royal Navy at the Battle of the Somme during WW1
The Battle of the Somme was one of the deadliest battles in human history. This is the story of the sailors from the Royal Navy who fought to capture Beaucourt Hamel, and how their commanding officer…
Landships : How The Navy Invented The Tank
Before the First World War the Kaiser joked that he did not have to worry about Britain as they could not put wheels on a dreadnought. So the Admiralty decided to do just that, and this is how they…
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