German Navy Enigma machine systems were different to the Army, making them tougher to crack. In this video, James Grime discusses the differences and what Alan Turing achieved in breaking the code.
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
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Packages seized by the Royal Navy from a Faroese cargo ship bound for Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars opened – previously hidden away in the National Archives
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Sinking the Blücher: How an outdated fort stopped the WWII Invasion of Norway
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A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
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US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in thirty minutes – and kept it a secret for fifty years
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Crippling Hitler's navy – the battle that knocked out 50% of the Kriegsmarine's destroyers in Norway
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa
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Warships of the Carthaginian Navy | Units of History
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Naval gladiator battles - What were they like?
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Mers el Kebir 1940 - Britain attacks her ally
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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Battle of Savo Island 1942: America's worst naval defeat
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Battle of Drøbak Sound, 1940 - "Either I will be decorated or court martialed. Fire!"
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Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters
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Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
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The hunt for the German battleship Tirpitz, '42-44
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Rum rations in the navy during the 18th century: Grog
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Sweden dodged a bullet by not building this nuclear submarine – the reactor had an insufficient amount of nuclear shielding
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When the USS John S. McCain crashed in the Pacific, the Navy blamed the destroyer’s crew for the loss of ten sailors. The truth is the Navy’s flawed technology set the McCain up for disaster
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered two wrecks believed to be 17th-century warships – one of which is likely to be the sister ship of the Vasa
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How did the US Navy win the Battle of Midway?
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Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge
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Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic
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In 1989, the Pepsi Company cut a deal with the USSR that left it with a fleet of Russian military ships, making PepsiCo temporarily the sixth-largest Navy in the world
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Long-lost shipwreck found off Victorian coast, seventy-seven years after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine in WWII
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Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy - An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald
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Mystery blast sank the USS San Diego in 1918. New report reveals what happened
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