We’re in the Interbellum. While one half of the world was done with war, the other half was gearing up for a new one.
It’s 1918 and the convoy system has dashed any remaining hope of the German empire winning the war by U-boat.
It’s 1917 and the German high command has realized that they can’t go on like this. Great Britain must be brought to its knees before the United States will inevitably join the allies. And so the Kaiser bets all his money on the U-boat...
It’s 1915. With the Imperial Navy locked safely inside its harbours, the Germans decide to unleash their U-boats in the first bout of unrestricted submarine warfare. It does not go well.
German U-boats weren’t the first to fire, but when they did, they shocked the world.
This episode is dedicated to Ron Leers. Rest in peace, dad.
Without the Whitehead torpedo, submarines would probably have been but a blip in world history.
John P. Holland and Simon Lake were the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of submarines. They didn’t know it then, but they changed the world. This episode is about these two giants who improved submarines, ironed out all the wrinkles, solved problems...
We’re in 1870 to 1900: the breakthrough of electric engines, the first time a battleship is torpedoed by a submerged submersible and true submarine frenzy in France. With the efficacy of submarine attack now proven by the CSS Hunley, French...
Any arguments against the procurement of submersibles ended on February 17, 1864, when Confederate lieutenant Dixon and his crew of eight men in the submersible CSS H.L. Hunley sank the US warship USS Housatonic, outside of Charleston, South...
In this episode, cut into several parts for your convenience, we dive into what is the decisive period for submarine invention. During this period, from 1800 until 1914, inventors were able to learn from each other owing to the much easier...