What Went on With Shipping: The World War One Edition | How did Shipping Defeat Germany in WWI?
Added 2026-01-27 14:48:31 +0000 UTC🚨Early Release🚨
In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — discusses shipping during the First World War with the hosts of the Not So Quiet on the Western Front Podcast, Dr. Spencer Jones and Dan Hill.
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Great episode! Don’t hear much about WWI. Sinking of the Lusitania was about all I knew about!!
BelfastBilly
2026-02-01 19:15:44 +0000 UTCThese are three worth-your-time histories with great maritime events/people reference details: 1) "To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-boat Commander," by Georg von Trapp -- Adriatic patrols in an obsolete German-supplied, single-compartment/gasoline sub; 2) "The Great Halifax Explosion," by John U. Bacon -- horrifying details building-up to how this tramp steamer, massively overloaded with incompatible munitions and hazmat, was rushed into the pipeline of re-supplying the 24/7 artillery fire over the trenches; 3) "The Listeners: U-boat Hunters During the Great War," by Roy R. Manston -- a treatise on sonar and anti-submarine warfare development. Just the off-hand, anecdotal commentary, and footnotes alone make this one a priceless reference for both naval and maritime life for the average seaman then.
DANA A. NICHOLS
2026-01-27 21:26:11 +0000 UTCFabulously interesting, Sal (and guests). Not only do I now realize how little I knew about the First World War, there’s now the fact staring me in the face: I don’t know much about anything. What a superb episode. You three are international treasures. Thank-you from Vancouver Island.
Larry Manuel
2026-01-27 20:24:26 +0000 UTCGreat video! A bit of family history: while my paternal grandfather was chasing after Pancho Villa with Pershing, my extended maternal side of the family was helping Pancho Villa. My paternal grandfather was discharged from the US Army after the war ended.
Steven Palmer
2026-01-27 19:48:28 +0000 UTCFascinating, galloping synopsis -- from three great history guides into this pivotal period! Very well hosted, Sal, and commendable in the manner in which each of you three gents shared this hour of compressed history. Aviation and air logistics was more my career and study area, yet naval and maritime history now shares most of my reading -- fascination with all of the vast lists of nuts & bolts, and crews, who made it all happen. As I was scrambling to take notes for future reading, as you three rattled-off anecdotes of events, a few peripheral notes of that period's history occurred to me -- moments and people who figured significantly in that brutal, hellish shakedown of worldwide shipping in-general, and a lot of war-focused conduct in particular.
DANA A. NICHOLS
2026-01-27 19:42:16 +0000 UTCGreat mini lesson on WW1. Personally live The Guns of August" by Tuchman and how it sets up Revolt in the Desert and as Dr. Spencer mentioned the redraw of the Middle East map.
Chris Van Decar
2026-01-27 18:48:22 +0000 UTCThis video will drop on Friday on YouTube. I used my snow day to edit it as we filmed it back in December.
Sal Mercogliano
2026-01-27 15:13:00 +0000 UTC
