Military/War Shipwrecks Episodes

The passenger and cargo ferry SS Caribou was sunk by U-69 on 14 Oct 1942, resulting in 136 killed.

Seven US Navy Destroyers are lost in the US Navy's worst peacetime disaster in its history.

The loss of HMS Hood and the sinking of Germany's powerful battleship.

The USCGC Tampa was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1918 and found over 100 years later.

Oliver Hazard Perry scores an unlikely victory over the British for control of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

The Doolittle Raid sparked massive retaliation against the Chinese people, with Unit 731 responsible for many atrocities.

The scattered parties of the USS Jeannette struggle to survive in the remote Siberian wilderness.

The USS Jeannette is one of the most tragic polar expeditions in maritime history.

Japanese Hell Ships were notoriously brutal POW transport ships of World War 2.

The USS Narcissus sank in 1866 during a storm at the mouth of Tampa Bay, Florida.

A daring naval manuever rescued the crew of HMS Rockingham on 27 September, 1944.

Violet Jessop survived three maritime disasters including the sinkings of Titanic and Britannic.

HMHS Britannic struck a German mine and sank on 21 November, 1916, during World War 1.

The Battle of Jutland was the only full scale WWI naval battle between the British Royal Navy and the German High Seas Fleet.

The Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk by a Soviet submarine on Jan 30, 1945, killing almost 10,000 people.

Scott Baxter was part of the search and rescue mission for the Marine Electric.

The H.L. Hunley sunk the USS Housatonic in 1864.

Three men were hanged for mutiny on board the USS Somers on December 1, 1842.

On the evening of January 28, 1980 the United States Coast Guard cutter Blackthorn was leaving Tampa Bay when it collided with the SS Capricorn, killing 23 Coast Guardsman.

On October 9, 1862, David Henry White was kidnapped at sea from the United States merchant ship Tonawanda by Captain Raphael Semmes of the CSS Alabama. The young man was from a free, black family of Lewes, Delaware, and was employed on the Tonawanda by the Cope Line as a passenger cook. Dr. Andrew Sillen, author of Kidnapped at Sea, discusses the story of David Henry White, his life while enslaved on the CSS Alabama, and the Lost Cause myth proliferated by the memoir of Semmes. Written, edited...

Ships of the Crusades Joining me for this episode is Dr. Nicholas Morton, Associate Professor with the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. Dr. Morton has written many books, including The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East. The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated by European Christians between the 11th and 13th centuries, aimed at reclaiming the Holy Land from Muslim control. These campaigns involved significant military ...

The Catastrophic Collision that Shattered a City: The Halifax Explosion of 1917.

History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster

Lord Thomas Cochrane: The Sea Wolf (Part 2)