Ship History

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    • Brief Histories
    • By: David Davies
    • Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • This introduction to the years of the Napoleonic Wars tells the story of one of the keys to that great conflict, the ship of the line - the deadly battleships that played such a vital role in the battles....

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    • Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
    • By: Charles Spencer
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 245 ratings
    • The sinking of the White Ship on the 25th November 1120 is one of the greatest disasters that England has ever suffered. Its repercussions would change English and European history for ever....

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    • How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
    • By: Fintan O'Toole
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • Between 1995 and 2007, the Republic of Ireland was the worldwide model of successful adaptation to economic globalisation. There were two big problems....

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    • The Greatest Escape Story of Australian Colonial History
    • By: Adam Courtenay
    • Narrated by: John Eastman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller....

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    • The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance
    • By: Mensun Bound
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong, Mensun Bound
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of how the world’s most famous shipwreck was found, told by the man leading the search....

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    • By: Michael Palin
    • Narrated by: Michael Palin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,935 ratings
    • In his major new work, Michael Palin - former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globe-trotter - brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus....

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    • 900 Years of Making History
    • By: Philippa Gregory
    • Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Tania Rodrigues, Nneka Okoye, James Goode, Joe Jameson, Philippa Gregory
    • Length: 27 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • Normal Women is a radical retelling of our nation’s story – not of the rise and fall of kings and the occasional queen – but of social and cultural change, powered by the determination, persistence and effectiveness of women – from 1066 to modern times....

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    • The Incredible Story of the Men and Women Who Brought Britain’s Biggest Warship to Life
    • By: Chris Terrill
    • Narrated by: Adam James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 20-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • Hear the enthralling story of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's largest ever warship....

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    • Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World
    • By: Linda Colley
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Starting not with the United States but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives....

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    • The Raising of the Submarine S-51
    • By: Edward Ellsberg
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • On September 25, 1925, the S-51 tragically sank to the ocean floor, and Edward Ellsberg was the man whose courage and determination brought it back....

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    • A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels
    • By: Tom Nancollas
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the hull of a modest fishing vessel, the propeller of an ocean liner and an anchor made of stone....

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    • By: David Gibbins
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • A rich and exciting narrative, this is not just the story of ships and the people who sailed on them, the cargo and treasure they carried and their tragic fate. This is also the story of the spread of people, religion and ideas around the world....

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    • History's Mysteries
    • By: Anita Nahta Amin
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 15 mins
    • Release date: 26-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • In 1872, the Mary Celeste merchant ship set sail from New York, bound for Italy. About a month later, it was spotted adrift in the ocean. The crew had vanished.

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    • By: Karl Spindler
    • Narrated by: John Husson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Mystery of the Casement Ship recounts one of the most extraordinary and explosive episodes of the Irish Easter Rising.

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    • By: Michael Veitch
    • Narrated by: Michael Veitch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board....

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    • The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of of Her Survivors
    • By: James D. Hornfischer
    • Narrated by: Mark Cashman
    • Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 19-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Renowned as FDR's favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor....

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    • Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
    • By: Robert Kurson
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister....

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    • The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis
    • By: William Geroux
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy to head further north into the ice field of the North Pole, seeking safety from Nazi bombers and U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes, growlers, and giant bergs....

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    • By: Katherine Bradley
    • Narrated by: Beth Eyre
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In Oceania, whoever you are, Big Brother is always watching you and trust is a luxury that no one has. Julia is the seemingly perfect example of what women in Oceania should be: dutiful, useful, subservient, meek. But Julia hides a secret....

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