The 10 Best The Mariner's Mirror Podcast Episodes
1) The Ocean and Us: Maritime Germany 1
A mini-series on the maritime history of Germany launches with a visit to the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, which has recently launched a stand-out new permanent exhibition 'Ship Realms - The...Show More
2) The Ship That Changed Shipbuilding: ss Fullagar
In 1920, in the Cammell, Laird & Co. shipyard in Birkenhead, a ship was built that would change the shipbuilding industry and shipyards forever. ss Fullagar was the world's first fully welded ocean-go...Show More
3) I Sank the Lusitania: The War Diary of Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger, May 1915, Commander, U-20, 1915
This episode continues our work bringing you some of the finest original historical material, written by the people who were actually there. Today we bring you the war diary of the U-boat commander&nb...Show More
4) How to Catch a Murderer At Sea: Dr Crippen and the SS Montrose
This episode links together one of the most important inventions in all of maritime technology with one of the most notorious murders in history. In 1910 Dr Hawly Crippen killed his wife Cora in their...Show More
5) Great Sea Fights: The Battle of the Nile, 1798
The Battle of the Nile of 1798 was one of the most important naval battles that has ever been fought. This episode presents an introduction explaining the context of the battle and is followed by a re...Show More
6) Predator of the Seas
This is the extraordinary history of a single ship - a Baltimore clipper.Once she was the Henriqueta, a slave ship; but subsequently she became the Black Joke, a hunter of slave ships.In her former li...Show More
7) Kidnapped at Sea
This episode presents an astonishing and tragic story from the American Civil War with great relevance to the present day.It’s the story of a black boy called David Henry White who comes from Delaware...Show More
8) Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners
This episode explores one of the world’s greatest historical collections relating to the golden age of ocean liner travel. To find out more Dr Sam Willis spoke with John Sayers, a man who has dedicate...Show More
9) Indian Figureheads From the Bombay Dockyard
Bombay, now Mumbai, was a major shipbuilding centre for the Royal Navy in the first half of the nineteenth century. The ships were magnificent, built from the famous Malabar teak and by the hands of a...Show More
10) European Ship Surveyors in China, 1869-1918
In this episode we explore the fascinating history of Europeans working in the complex maritime world of China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular we find out about shi...Show More