By Jared Samuelson

Tom Sharpe joins the program to discuss his time as Captain of HMS Endurance, when the ship suffered catastrophic flooding and was nearly lost in Antarctic waters.

Tom is a freelance communications consultant specializing in managing reputations and capacity building for complex and often contested organizations. Prior to this he spent 27 years in the Royal Navy, 20 of which were at sea. He commanded four different warships, including a Type 23 Frigate and the Ice Patrol Vessel, HMS Endurance.

Download Sea Control 521 – Catastrophe in the Antarctic with Tom Sharpe (Part 1)

Links

1. “Mayday in Magellan; Leadership Lessons on Flooded HMS Endurance,” by Tom Sharpe, Wavell Room, December 16, 2018. 

2. “Sea Control 440 – The Wager with David Grann,” CIMSEC, June 29, 2023. 

Jared Samuelson is Co-Host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at [email protected].

This episode was edited and produced by Andrew Frame.

By Jared Samuelson

Dr. David Winkler joins the program to discuss the Pacific War diary of Lieutenant Commander Lloyd Mustin. David is a retired Navy commander who served as staff historian at the Naval Historical Foundation, taught at the US Naval Academy and Naval War College, and held the Charles Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History at the Smithsonian.

Download Sea Control 520 – Witness to Neptune’s Inferno with Dr. David Winkler

Links

1. Witness to Neptune’s Inferno: The Pacific War Diary of Lieutenant Commander Lloyd M. Mustin, USS Atlanta (CL 51), by David F. Winkler, Casemate, 2024.

Jared Samuelson is Co-Host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at [email protected].

This episode was edited and produced by Jim Jarvie.

By Jared Samuelson

Dr. Peter Bogason joins the program to discuss the evolutions of NATO’s force posture and command-and-control arrangements in the Baltic Approaches. Peter is Professor Emeritus at Roskilde University and Royal Danish Defence College, Denmark.

Download Sea Control 519 – NATO and the Baltic Approaches with Dr. Peter Bogason

Links

1.  “NATO and the Baltic Approaches, 1949-1989 – When Perception was Reality,” by Peter Bogason, Walter De Gruyter GmbH, 2023.

2. Peter Bogason professor profile.

Jared Samuelson is Co-Host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at [email protected].

This episode was edited and produced by Jonathan Selling.

By Jared Samuelson

CDR Ryan Mewett, PhD takes a short break from schooling Midshipmen to teach us about the Royal Navy’s role in Caribbean contraband trade. Ryan is a Permanent Military Professor at the U.S. Naval Academy specializing in the history of early modern Britain and the British Atlantic.

Download Sea Control 518 – The Royal Navy and Caribbean Contraband Trade with CDR Ryan Mewett, PhD

Links

1. “It is ticklish meddling with the navy”: The British navy and Caribbean contraband trade, c. 1713–1750, by Ryan Mewett, International Journal of Maritime History, December 10, 2023.

Jared Samuelson is Co-Host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at [email protected].

This episode was edited and produced by Johann Porisch.