I’m going to be honest - time is short this week so I’m throwing something short together but hopefully interesting.

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Maritime History with Chris Sams (live and unplugged) · Episode

My first book “Tides of Defiance” was published in May 2026. The book tells the story of those that attempted to escape from the German Occupied Channel Islands. If you want to find out…

Maritime History with Chris Sams (live and unplugged) · Episode

A while back I wrote an overview of the Gazelle and Bremen class cruisers of the German Navy and I thought, for balance, I should do one for the Royal Navy and settled on the Cressey class Armoured cr...

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In 1873, passengers of the Northfleet died after it was hit by a steamer off the coast of Dungeness.

The life and death of ORP Burza

Wedge Antilles – hero, warrior, star pilot. The only rebel to face two Death Stars and live to tell the tale. Wedge confronted death countless times, in battles large and small, where split-second...

The hard life of Mary Ann Williams

The defeat of von Spee and the bigger picture

Author guest post from Chris Sams. The Second World War is probably the most written about subject in history with new books coming out year

The Russian drone was destroyed by a Ukrainian Sargan 3000 unmanned boat, equipped with a 12.7-mm Protector remote weapons station, according to the Navy, marking a historic first battle between marin...

The life and death of ORP Burza

U-111’s career, action at Tarrafal bay and her date with Lady Shirley

The SS Prinzessin Victoria-Luise

The defeat of von Spee and the bigger picture

The First Schleswig War 1848-51

The liner SS Deutschland was a blue ribband winning liner of the Hamburg-Amerika Line and was commissioned in 1900.

Maritime History with Chris Sams (live and unplugged) · Episode

Could the Confederate Army defeat a contemporary European army?

When Gillingham was ablaze

The SMS Goeben