Chris Sams
@jerijerod14
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World War 1 & 2 Naval historian, also likes RAF bombers & Luftwaffe 1935-45. does @hack_history stuff. All my links
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So I've been thinking over the last few weeks as to what I want to write about in the coming years and I have a shortlist, I just need to come up with an order and whether people will actually buy them so I thought I'd share the short list and see what feedback I get.
Available from
@FonthillMedia
German raiders of the First World War & Flying into the Storm
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2400 year old possibly Greek vessel found a mile below the surface of the Black Sea is the oldest ship wreck yet discovered
#shipwreckMonday
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Ever wondered what a 16” shell would do to 26” thick armour plate on a battleship?
#GunneryIsFunnery
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The inside of a Bf 110 cockpit taken from the rear gunner’s seat
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The wreck of HMS Victoria the world’s only known vertical ship wreck. The weight of her forward turret and the propellers still spinning at full speed ploughed the bow deep into the sea bed leaving her standing
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Unpopular opinion but...
The Battle of Britain was lost and all plans for a marine invasion of the British mainland rendered pointless off the coast of Norway even before the fall of France...
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The wreck of Shackleton's ship Endurance which was lost on 21/11/1915 only to be found in March 2022 in the Weddell sea off Antarctica
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So as tomorrow is Bismarck launch day and I'm releasing tweets through the year on the career of Tirpitz in the 80th year since her sinking maybe I should talk about the idea behind the Bismarck class.
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West German Police stare down East German border police after a young woman ran across the line
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Battleship groups on Twitter seem to be obsessed with Bismarck, Yamato and Iowa class battleships but here are some handy stats on
#warspitewednesday
proving that Warspite is better…
#TheMoreYouKnow
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SMS Hindenburg (colourised) after the fleet’s scuttling in 1919
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One of HMS Hood's 5.5" guns which had been removed & put at the Ascension Island for defence. On 9th December 1941 the U-124 approached the island to shell ships in port & the cable station. The Hood's guns fired forcing the German submarine to crash dive & flee the scene
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The Swedish warship Mars also known as the “Dane hater” built in 1563. She caught fire and exploded during The first battle of Öland on 30-31 May 1564
#shipwreckmonday
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Painting of HMS Gloworm attempting to ram the heavy cruiser Hipper
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One of the great criticisms of the German Imperial Navy at Jutland is that they turned and "ran away" but is this an accurate description or an unfair view that has become part of historical lore by people without taking the time to understand the battle.
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Morning
It’s a German warship kind of a day so here is Tirpitz
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Zeppelin L-23 stopped the Norwegian vessel, Royal, on 23 April 1917, by dropping a bomb in her path. The vessel was inspected & found carrying contraband so a boarding party was landed & she was sailed to Cuxhaven. This is the only example of Zeppelins capturing a vessel alone
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So tomorrow is the 14th February which can mean only one thing…
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Royal Navy won the Battle of Britain (or made sea lion impossible) off the coasts of Norway between April-May 1940
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On 12/5/1917 U-103 sighted RMS Olympic in the English Channel delivering US troops to France. KptLt Claus Rücker ordered the aft torpedo tubes fired but she was spotted by Olympic.
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Images of the wreck (and artist’s impression of the sinking) of SMS Scharnhorst, von Spee’s flagship
#Falklands108
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Stolen from FB - the guns of HMS Invincible at the bottom of the North Sea
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Images from the deepest ship wreck (I believe) USS Johnston
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The ship design that changed everything in 1906 - HMS Dreadnought
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The RAFs best single engined light bomber of 1939-40, the Fairey Battle.
Before you comment just... re read the above twice... please
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The wreck of von Spee’s flagship, SMS Scharnhorst off the Falklands
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The USS Prinz Eugen (as she was in this picture) just before the atomic tests
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The wreck of one Franklin’s two vessels from the Northwest passage expedition - HMS Terror
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Two Bf 109 Es of Jg 26 Schlageter. The fore aircraft is Adolf Galland’s and the background air craft (white 12) could be Joachim Muncheberg’s
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The Gneisenau cut through the morning chill at sunrise, Nurnberg dutifully at her rear as she approached the
#Falklands109
, there was no expectation of resistence. As the Marines readied for action the gunnery officers noted a pall of smoke over Stanley. Was the coal afalme?
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One of the most famous images of a sinking warship, the dreadnought SMS Szent Istvan of the Austro-Hungarian Kriegsmarine following an Italian Torpedo boat attack.
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So what happened to the Zeppelin L-19 on the morning of the 2nd February 1916 and why did it cause such a stir of public opinion and almost lead to several Royal Navy officers to be be shot by the Germans?
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It’s not a get together with me if there isn’t an argument about Jutland at some point…
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the CSS H. L. Hunley which was lost in the sinking of USS Housatonic on 17th February 1864. She was later recovered from the silt of Charleston Harbour in 2000
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So I've been mulling over writing a long thread following the U-boat/unrestricted submarine warfare thread but after the below accusation I turned to my heaving book cases and...
Let's talk Naval blockades, how they work, what are the pitfalls with ref to WW1
@jerijerod14
The Bosporus.
Easy-given Turkeys rage at Israel .
Read a book that isn't a colouring book.
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My Grandfather who had landed at Sicily & Salerno always became exasperated at
#Dday
celebrations each year so in memory of this -
British troops marching off the Solerno beach head
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The great cannon tree at Chatham Dockyard… this one is almost ripe and ready for removal from the ground.
#GunneryIsFunnery
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Continuing a theme of "Ships cooler than Bismarck"...
SMS Grosser Kurfurst which was the flagship of the Highseas fleet at Jutland
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So I've been asked about my opinion of the SMS Seeadler as a raider in the First World War and although its not one that falls into my particular niche (she wasn't in service in 14-15) I know a little about a little & can throw a thread together so...
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A sonar scan of the wreck of the Kriegsmarine light cruiser Karlsruhe sunk during the Norwegian invasion in 1940
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Naval engagements of the First World War that aren’t Jutland
Battle of Coronel 1/11/1914
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Just because I need this more than anyone here…
SMS Scharnhorst
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The Kriegsmarine submarine U-B which was laid down on 9th December 1936 in Chatham... wait, hang on... A Chatham built submarine that served in the Navy of the Third Reich? How is this is that possible?
(Before you reply - read the thread)
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Before I start on the Battle of the Falklands for
#Falklands109
I should set the scene a bit & talkabout the defence of the islands prior to the German arrival on the fateful morning.
The main defence was HMS Canopus (below) a Canopus class battleship that was 15 years old
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HMS Prince of Wales, despite being commissioned in January 1939 and relatively new she was lost to Japanese air attack on 10th December 1941 whilst under command of Captain Leach whilst Force Z was under Admiral Sir Tom Phillips
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So today is the anniversary of the sinking of SMS Emden in 1914 but why is it such a big deal?
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HMS Anson, originally was to be named Jellicoe. Anson was the only King George V not to fire her main armament in the Second World War
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HMS Warspite bombarding German positions on D-Day off the Normandy coast 6/6/1944
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Brewster Buffalo of 453 Squadron RAAF at Sembawang, Singapore
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So what's next for
#Falklands109
? Well von Spee decides to head away at full speed hoping to outrun the British vessels & lead them away from his detached supply ships. With Scharnhorst & Gneisenau leading followed by Nurnberg, Dresden and the older Leipzig to the rear
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Last year I was giving a talk and was talking about the German Navy in 1914 whilst tech issues were being overcome between my laptop & projector.
It finally works but instead of PowerPoint opening my laptop’s wall paper is displayed:
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The Austro-Hungarian Kriegsmarine dreadnought SMS Prinz Eugen
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HMS Revenge, lead ship of her class of battleships and served in two World Wars
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HMS Revenge off Egypt in 1941 (taken from HMT Orion).
By this stage the Revenge was in a bad way with condenser problems and a lot of rust but she would still continue to serve through her second World War.
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Watching “Sink the Bismarck” and preparing for another evening in
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So I've been dwelling on this and need a distraction from the head gremlins.
Yes, superfiring turrets was an important step however Dreadnought was the bigger deal & changed how Navies thought of Battleships and this is why...
I wonder... I get "the all-big guns." I even get turbines. But I always thought that the bigger deal was America's perfection of the superfiring turrets, which allowed all the guns to be positioned centerline and afforded the greatest fire power regardless of target relative
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The oldest intact ship wreck (as far as I know) ever discovered, a 2400 year old Greek merchant ship found in the Black Sea
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My Grandfathers were never to fussed about D-day, in fact at a certain level the amount of attention it gained irked them but then one was in Burma and the other had stormed beaches at Sicily & Salerno.
I know it’s isn’t a competition, just saying.
If any government in future is serious about the legacy of the WW2 generation, then a trip to the Normandy Beaches should be a mandated secondary school trip.
It's a reminder of what sacrifice really is.
We owe them that in perpetuity.
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Haven't met a single woman who has said to me "I love your enthusiasm for the German Navy in the First World War, your book collecting and Skyrim - we should mate"
There are much better hobbies to attract a partner & Count von Spee's squadron getting massacred is not one of them
Something a lot of men don't like to admit:
All of your hobbies and ambitions are to attract women.
Nature doesn't care how much personal fulfillment you get from them. Those things are cool, but they're a coincidental positive externality to the prime objective:
To keep the
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HMS Redoubtable (formerly the Royal Sovereign class pre-Dreadnought Revenge) firing on German positions in Belgium in 1915. She has flooded several of her anti torpedo blisters to give the ship a list so as to increase gun elevation/range
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On Easter Sunday 1942 a force 124 Japanese aircraft carried out a raid on Colombo Harbour in Ceylon catching the RAF & FAA on the ground as part of the Indian ocean raid.
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Its Friday... Always time for a good looking warship.
SMS Bayern
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