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The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast

The Society for Nautical Research and the Lloyds Register Foundation

The world"s No.1 podcast dedicated to all of maritime and naval history. With one foot in the present and one in the past we bring you the most exciting and interesting current maritime projects worldwide: including excavations of shipwrecks, the restoration of historic ships, sailing classic yachts and tall ships, unprecedented behind the scenes access to exhibitions, museums and archives worldwide, primary sources and accounts that bring the maritime past alive as never before. From the Society

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32:31

The Lusitania Disaster: Part 4 The Exhibition

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/05/08

Part 4 of our special min-series on the Lusitania disaster. Dr Sam Willis meets Lusitania historian Peter Kelly and together they explore some of their favourite items in the Lusitania exhibition at the Merseyside Maritime Museum. They discuss two different ships linked with the Lusitania story - the Falaba, a passenger ship of Liverpool's Elder Dempster line sunk by a German U-Boat off the southern coast of Ireland a matter of weeks before the Lusitania disaster; and the Carmania, a Cunard line

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28:50

The Lusitania Disaster: Part 3 The Ship and the Sinking

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/05/07

Part 3 of our mini-series on the Lusitania tragedy when, in May 1915 the Cunard passenger liner Lusitania was torpedoed 16 miles off the coast of Ireland, leading the deaths of over 1100 men, women and children. This episode looks at the general history of the ship, the reasons behind her construction, and the reasons behind her destruction. The episode puts the Lusitania sinking in the context of early twentieth century shipbuilding and of the First World War. To find out more Dr Sam Willis

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18:33

The Lusitania Disaster: Part 2 The Eyewitness Accounts

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/05/07

This is the second episode in our Lusitania Disaster Special in which we explore the sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-Boat in May 1915, which ended in the death of over 1900 people. In this episode we hear three fascinating eyewitness accounts: The 18 year-old lookout Leslie Morton describes how he lost his brother when the torpedo struck, scrambled for his life and ended up trawling the morgues in Queenstown for his brother's corpse; we hear from Grace French, a 24 year-old dressmaker from

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26:39

The Lusitania Disaster: Part 1 An Introduction to the...

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/05/07

This episode forms part of our mini series on the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 - that terrible event when the enormous Cunard passenger liner was sunk off the coast of Ireland by a German U-Boat killing 1193 people. To find out more Dr Sam Willis speaks with Anthony Richards from London's Imperial War Museum. Anthony is an expert on eyewitness testimony and on the sinking of the Lusitania. They discuss the exciting purchase at auction by the Imperial War Museum of numerous accounts of the

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35:09

Ultimate Ship Models 2: The Great Eastern

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/04/30

The second of a new mini-series on ship models. Dr Sam Willis explores the extraordinary model of the SS Great Eastern held in the collections of the National Maritime Museum in London. The Great Eastern, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was one of the most remarkable ships ever built.She was the largest ship ever built – by an enormous margin.measuring 692 feet(211m) and 17,274 tons gross she was almost twice as long as any ship that had ever been built.Her registered tonnage was six times more

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37:34

Robinson Crusoe / Alexander Selkirk

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/04/25

We explore the astonishing intertwined tales of both Robinson Crusoe and Alexander Selkirk, two men marooned on a desert island, one in fiction, one in real life.Robinson Crusoe was a novel published in 1719 by Daniel Defoe– that supposedly came from the pen of Crusoe himself – and told the story of how he was marooned and spent 28 years on a deserted island in the Caribbean. The book was enormously successful and is widely considered to be the beginning of realistic fiction as a genre – Crusoe’s

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42:30

Iconic Ships 15: Carpathia

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/04/18

Carpathia is the vessel that earned her historical fame by coming to the rescue of the stricken Titanic in April 1912. She is often glossed over in the history books but Carpathia herself was a remarkable ship with a fascinating history, and one that also ends in disaster with the vessel at the bottom of the Atlantic. Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger ship, launched in 1908. Her dramatic story is one of innovation, competition, immigration, courage, shipwreck and war. To find out

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32:06

Titanic's Anchors

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/04/15

In April 1912, the Titanic - the largest vessel in the world, and the largest man-made moving object that had by then been created - struck an iceberg, split in half and sank in the middle of the Atlantic, taking with her around 1500 souls. Her early demise meant that one of her most important pieces of safety equipment - her anchors - were never used as intended. In this fascinating episode Dr Sam Willis speaks with Clare Weston from the Black Country Living Museum about the fabrication of

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36:43

The Search for the Northwest Passage

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/04/11

In the Arctic there is a sea route which passes from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It passes up the west coast of Greenland into baffin bay before taking a sharp left turn through a maze of islands that lie off the northern coast of Canada. Once through these islands the route passes to the north of Alaska and then through the narrow straits between Russia and Alaska into the Bering Sea and from there to the Pacific. This 'Northwest Passage', the fabled northern route linking East with West, was not

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39:33

Madness At Sea - A History

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/04/05

Those of you who have spent any time at sea will know how the unique conditions of being afloat can fundamentally change the way that you think and how you experience the world. It will come as no surprise that there have been occasions in history when humans have been pushed to their absolute limits and their minds have cracked; when a firm grasp on reality has catastrophically failed in a sudden a violent shock, or when doubts and anxiety have crept in like water through a tiny hole the hull of

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38:19

Ultimate Ship Models 1: HMS Royal George

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/03/29

The first of a new mini-series on ship models. Dr Sam Willis explores the extraordinary model of HMS Royal George held in the collections of the National Maritime Museum in London. The Royal George is widely considered to be one of the finest eighteenth-century ship models ever made. It was made for the King in the 1770s, as a means of encouraging George III to take an interest in the Royal Navy and some of the finest artists in the kingdom worked on it, resulting in a model that not only showcased

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32:13

Iconic Ships 14: The San Juan, 1563

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/03/22

The San Juan was a basque whaling ship that sank in Labrador in 1565, and was rediscovered in 1978.In the autumn of 1565 several Basque whaling ships were anchored in a remote bay of Labrador, opposite the island of Newfoundland.It was the end of the whaling season, and hundreds of sailors were hurrying up to complete their ships’ cargo of oil barrels. Some were flensing the blubber off the dead whales, some working in the rendering ovens while others were taking the oil barrels on board. All that

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29:11

Great Sea Fights 9: The Egadi Islands 241 BC

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/03/10

The battle of the Egadi Islands - or the Aegates - is one of the most significant naval battles of the ancient world. On 10 March 241 BC the mighty naval powers of Rome and Carthage met off the coast of Sicily. The Carthaginian fleet was ambushed by the Romans in a well-planned and brilliantly executed trap leading to a decisive Roman victory. This was the battle that ended the mighty First Punic War which had dominated both Roman and Carthaginian history for two generations; it marked a turning

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34:49

The Vikings

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/03/08

One of the most fascinating periods in all of maritime history is the Viking Age. From around 700 CE and for the next 700 years, Vikings spread out from Scandinavia, reshaped Europe and influenced lands far beyond. It's a story of ingenious maritime engineering, astonishing navigation, fierce battles, culture clashes, trade, language and the rise and fall of a complex society. To find out more Dr Sam Willis spoke with Tore Ske,one of Norway’s most acclaimed historians. Tore has written several

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57:23

The East India Company

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/02/25

In this episode Dr Sam Willis and the multi winning historian William Dalrymple discuss the extraordinary story of the East India Company's dominance of India. It is still too easily assumed that the British conquered India through imperial conquest but the reality is even more shocking and relevant to the present day - because India was subdued not by a government, but by a private enterprise with global reach - a business, almost entirely unregulated, and controlled from a small office in London

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37:00

The Hunt for Shackleton's Endurance

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/02/17

In one of the most remarkable maritime history stories of recent years, a team of scientists and explorers are getting closer than ever before to finding the Endurance, the ship that Ernest Shackleton took on his 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition. An expedition is currently in the Weddell Sea, less than two miles from the last known position of the Endurance and have released an underwater vehicle to scan the sea bed. To find out more, Dr Sam Willis interviewed David Mearns, a professional

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43:06

The Battle of Guadalcanal, 1942

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/02/07

The naval battle of Guadalcanal was one of the most intense and dramatic naval battles of the war, and with with far-reaching strategic consequences. It is the winter of 1942, a year after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour which brought America into the war. Guadalcanal is the largest of the Solomons Islands, found to the north west of Australia.In the months after the attack on Pearl Harbourthe Japanese had been immensely successful; they had driven the Americans out of the Philippines, the

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33:10

How to Become a Naval Officer: Part 1 The U.S. Naval...

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/01/25

This week we are exploring the history of how to become a naval officer, with particular focus on the American experience and the foundation of the Naval War College in Rhode Island. Established in 1884 the U.S. Naval War College offered professional study for naval officers and now offers advanced courses of professional study for all services, U.S. government agencies and departments, and international navies.In our modern world media interest on naval power tends to be directed towards materiel

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46:19

The Titanic

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2022/01/17

Dr Sam Willis speaks with Don Lynch, a historian who has spoken to more survivors of the Titanic than anyone else alive and was the official historian for James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic. Sam and Don discuss a number of issues including the concept of ‘women and children first’ and how that actually worked in practice. They also discuss unresolved historical issues relating to the history of the Titanic. This episode is made to go alongside a remarkable new 3D model of the Titanic that has been

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27:40

The UK's Historic Ships and HMS Medusa

The Mariner"s Mirror Podcast ·

2021/12/20

Dr Sam Willis explores the fascinating history of the UK’s historic fleet – the historic vessels that survive in the UK. Many are afloat but there are also ships on slipways, in sheds, hidden in creeks, dismantled in boxes, forgotten on canals... To find out more Sam speaks with Hannah Cunliffe, Director of National Historic Ships UK. a government funded, independent organisation which gives objective advice to UK governments and local authorities, funding bodies, and the historic ships sector on

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