Spanish Navy
Armed forcesWikipedia
54
MENTIONS
22
EPISODES
20
PODCASTS
Search complete. 54 mentions across 22 episodes found for "Spanish Navy".
Sep 24, 2026
Oliver LaneGUEST
... um, again, I think the, the technology of s- as such is, it's kind of in the mind.
Oliver LaneGUEST
What made the Royal Navy so incredibly good in the Napoleonic Wars against the French and the Spanish navies, because the, uh, the French particular- in particular were technologically advanced beyond the British.
Oliver LaneGUEST
They built bigger ships.
Oliver LaneGUEST
They built stronger ships.
DanielHOST
The competing nationalisms.
DanielHOST
The Comandantia Naval building belongs, of course, to the Spanish Navy.
DanielHOST
The building with the Basque flag turns out to be the headquarters of the PNV, the Basque Nationalist Party, which has been in power up here for most of Spain's young democracy.
DanielHOST
The current constitution was signed in 1978, and the PNV has run the Basque country for all but four of the years since then.
Ryan McGowanHOST
The letter also went on to casually hint that Sicily was actually a cover target.
Ryan McGowanHOST
There was another letter too from the Chief of Combined Operations, Lord Louis Mountbatten, the uncle of the late Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, who, funny enough, he was also around in the Mediterranean at this point on a ship, like actually in the Navy.
James KayHOST
Nice.
James KayHOST
Good on him, the man that
9 MINS LATER
Ryan McGowanHOST
After a few days, British intelligence was getting jittery.
Ryan McGowanHOST
They had no idea if the Germans had gotten hands-on with their documents, and they almost didn't.
Ryan McGowanHOST
Since the body was that of a naval officer, the documents were handed over to the Spanish Navy, who were actually quite friendly to the British, and they offered them back quite quickly, which wasn't the plan.
speaker_6UNKNOWN
No, no, no, we don't want them.
TriploiHOST
But isn't it a fascinating what-if scenario there? Nonetheless, their pirates will keep harassing the Spanish for years to come.
TriploiHOST
But as the Spanish navy starts to grow, they become less of a threat, especially around their home waters, and the Spanish are firmly in control of their ports, although it was a bit hairy there for a little bit.
TriploiHOST
While all of this is going around, so this is about the 1570s by this point, Spain has of course been very, very busy with all of this drama that they're dealing with between the Ottomans, as well as the general pirates that are all trying to intercept their ships everywhere from the Caribbean all the way to the Spanish ports.
TriploiHOST
But at the same time this is happening, the other soon-to-be European colonial powers have not been sitting around idly.
6 MINS LATER
TriploiHOST
and who knows might even still be around today everything in history completely changes depending on this moment in my opinion nonetheless that's not the way it goes and in 1588 the spanish are defeated in the english channel By the small plucky British Navy which just uses fire to burn as many of these Spanish ships as they can.
TriploiHOST
As well as the fact that they've got relatively long range artillery not just in their ships but also off the southern coast of Britain.
TriploiHOST
And between their combined firepower and the fact that a massive storm comes and wrecks a lot of the Spanish Navy.
TriploiHOST
The British survive this invasion attempt and the Spanish Navy is severely damaged.
TriploiHOST
There are cannons.
TriploiHOST
The British survived this invasion attempt and the Spanish Navy is severely damaged.
TriploiHOST
Now, Spain is still very powerful as a result of this, but it also goes into the cause and effect thing because when you have pirates up until this point, capturing a ship in 1655 and then put them into the more streamlined ocean-going ships, they can take it back to Europe, to the Persian border, which we talked about last episode, and they're known as the corsairs.
TriploiHOST
And it's by pure necessity by the fact that other people want to steal your ships because they're full of gold.
8 MINS LATER
TriploiHOST
And they've got enough to keep themselves busy, so they pretty much give up on the naval colonialism game at this point.
TriploiHOST
But isn't it a fascinating what-if scenario there? Nonetheless, their pirates will keep harassing the Spanish for years to come.
TriploiHOST
but as the spanish navy starts to grow they become less of a threat especially around their home borders and the spanish are firmly in control of their ports although it was a bit hairy there for a little bit the spanish maritime border of maneuvers his ships in a way that he's basically able to capture all of them all of the treasure ships and pete hayne surrounds this convoy and although the british east india company and the voc are very powerful entities The two biggest factors to know about the British East India Company, everything changes because the modern world is born as a result of all of this, all of this horror that's about to happen and these empires that are being made on the bones of so many indigenous people.
TriploiHOST
The history of so many countries is now going to change purely by which colonial entity comes and takes over your land and genocides your people and destroys your culture.
Richard VaughanHOST
Mm-hmm.
Javier Calderón BeltránGUEST
So I started to work with- for this company because my uncle, he used to be a naval-- a Spanish Navy sailor.
Richard VaughanHOST
Okay.
Javier Calderón BeltránGUEST
So he was, at that time, he was in-
Richard VaughanHOST
So he was a member of the Spanish Navy.
Javier Calderón BeltránGUEST
Right.
Richard VaughanHOST
All right.
Kat ThorneGUEST
So Novantia primarily are the Spanish nationalised shipbuilding company.
Kat ThorneGUEST
They build ships, sorry, for the Spanish Navy, but they also have operations in Australia and Saudi Arabia where they support their navies as well.
Kat ThorneGUEST
And in January 2025, they basically took over the four Harland and Wolfe shipyards and also are...
Kat ThorneGUEST
Small head office in London.
Dan TollerHOST
But in New York, a private organization called the Cuban Junta raises money to smuggle weapons, supplies, and even American volunteers into rebel-held areas.
Dan TollerHOST
Now, the Spanish Navy is patrolling the waters off Cuba, so to get past their patrols, the Cuban Junta is using old Confederate blockade runners, modern steamships that are built specifically for maximum speed.
Dan TollerHOST
These ships sail illegally under the American flag, in violation of U.S. neutrality laws, and their status under international law is dubious at best.
Dan TollerHOST
The Spanish, for their part, put the blockade runners in the same category as pirates.
Dan TollerHOST
Five years into the rebellion, in October of 1873, one of these blockade runners, the Virginius, is intercepted by a Spanish Navy vessel called the Tornado.
Dan TollerHOST
The Virginius is fast, but as it turns out, the Tornado is actually her sister ship, built for the Confederacy from the same blueprint in the same Scottish shipyard.
Dan TollerHOST
But the Tornado seems to be just a little bit faster than her sister, and when the Spanish capture the Virginius, they find over 500 rifles, 100 volunteer fighters, and a large quantity of food and medicine and other supplies.
56 MINS LATER
Dan TollerHOST
On the American side, the Navy's four remaining battleships are new and well-maintained, but many of the smaller ships are still old.
Sam WillisHOST
It protected more than a thousand jobs and ensured the continuation of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary's Fleet Solid Support Ship Programme.
Sam WillisHOST
We don't have time to go into it today, but it's important at least to know that although Novantia was created in 2005, it traces its roots back more than 300 years to the Royal shipyards established for the Spanish Navy.
Sam WillisHOST
As one of the young people beginning a career in modern shipbuilding, Jack offers a perspective on the skills, technology and opportunities that are shaping Britain's maritime industries today.
Sam WillisHOST
Finally, we meet Fiona Henderson, whose work is helping to develop North Devon as a centre for clean maritime innovation.
12 more episodes mention Spanish Navy.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.