Episode list

Empire of the Seas

Heart of Oak

Thu, Jan 14, 2010
Dan Snow charts the role the Royal Navy played in Britain's development. How victory over the Armada transformed impoverished England into a powerful seafaring nation.
7.2 /10
The Golden Ocean
In a series on the Royal Navy's role in British history, Dan Snow shows how the country came out of military and economic disaster to achieve global supremacy.
7.2 /10
High Tide

Thu, Jan 28, 2010
Dan Snow presents a series on the Royal Navy's role in British history. Dan looks at the evolution of Nelson's navy and the national enterprise which supported it.
7.3 /10
Sea Change

Thu, Feb 04, 2010
Dan Snow looks at how the 19th-century Navy used gunboat diplomacy to push British interests further afield, before losing its naval supremacy after the First World War.
6.9 /10
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