Ship History

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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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    • From Forecastle to Quarter-Deck
    • By: John D. Whidden
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 19-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Orphaned at five, nothing held Whidden back from embarking on sea life seven years later. Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days records a series of real events from his childhood impressions of rough and ready seamen to his thrilling and brutal experiences of war....

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    • Stories of Courage, Strength, and Learning from One of the First Women to Serve on US Warships
    • By: Joanna Sprtel Walters
    • Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A naval officer's memoir about finding one's voice....

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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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    • 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 243 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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    • 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 169 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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    • 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 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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    • An Industrial History of U.S. Naval Shipbuilding 1922-1945
    • By: Thomas Heinrich
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-21
    • Language: English
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    • Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the US naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War II, when American shipyards produced the world's largest fleet that helped defeat the Axis powers in all corners of the globe....

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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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    • 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 8 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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    • Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex (Original News Stories of Whale Attacks & Cannibals)
    • By: Owen Chase, Thomas Nickerson
    • Narrated by: Paul J. McSorley
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 23-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The modern listener is given a seat in the whale boat of Owen Chase as he and his fellow crew and their captain make way in three boats after the wreckage of the Whaleship Essex....

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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 6 ratings
    • The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller....

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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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    • 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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    • The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster
    • By: Richard F. Newcomb
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Sailing across the Pacific, the battle-scarred heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis had just delivered a secret cargo that would trigger the end of World War II. Heading westward, she was sunk by a Japanese submarine. In 12 minutes, some 300 men went down with her....

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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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    • The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
    • By: Greg King, Penny Wilson
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner....

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