Beyond the Breakers: Recent Episodes
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Beyond The Breakers is a podcast about shipwrecks, loss, and lessons learned from maritime disasters.
Here we conclude the series on the Port Chicago disaster and mutiny.
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Sources:
https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1944/port-chicago/port-chicago-lessons-learned.html
Allen, Robert L. “The Port Chicago Disaster and Its Aftermath.” The Black Scholar, vol. 13, no. 2 / 3, Spring 1982, pp. 2 - 29.
Guttridge, Leonard F. Mutiny: A History of Naval Insurrection. Berkley, 1992.
Olwell, Russell. “The Mare Island Mutiny: Pressure to Desegregate the U.S. Armed Forces.” OAH Magazine of History, vol. 15, no. 2, Winter 2001, pp. 64 - 70.
Reddick, L.D. “The Negro in the United States Navy During World War II.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 32, no. 2, Apr 1947, pp. 201 - 219.
Wollenberg, Charles. “Black vs. Navy Blue: The Mare Island Mutiny Court Martial.” California History, vol. 58, no. 1, Spring 1979, pp. 62 - 75.
https://portchicagoalliance.org/history.html - Port Chicago Alliance website
https://portchicagomemorial.org/2006/03/19/port-chicago-in-print-and-music/
- Port Chicago Mutiny Jazz Suite
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**Episode 168.3 will be coming out after 169 - we did not forget about Port Chicago Pt. 3
In this episode Jess (of Karluk series fame) returns to the show for a discussion largely focused on Canadian attempts to more firmly impose sovereignty on the far northern reaches of Canada's claimed territories. Featuring appearances from Stef, Captain Bartlett (???), polar polymath George Comer, and the dashing Dane Knud Rasmussen.
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Sources:
Cavell, Janice and Jeff Noakes. Acts of Occupation: Canada and Arctic Sovereignty, 1918-25. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010.
Levere, Trevor H. “Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Continental Shelf, and a New Arctic Continent.” The British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 21, pp. 233 - 247.
Low, A.P. “Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands on board the D.G.S. Neptune 1903 - 1904.” https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55479/55479-h/55479-h.htm
Ross, W. Gillies. “Canadian Sovereignty in the Arctic: The Neptune Expedition of 1903 - 04.” Arctic: Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, vol. 29, no. 2, 1976, pp. 87 - 105.
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In this THREE-part episode we delve into a disaster on the US home front during WWII and the subsequent work stoppage that contributed to the eventual desegregation of the US Navy.
Part I deals with the Port Chicago disaster itself, and Parts II and 3 will cover the details of the famous "mutiny" that took place in its aftermath.
Sources:
https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1944/port-chicago/port-chicago-lessons-learned.html
Allen, Robert L. “The Port Chicago Disaster and Its Aftermath.” The Black Scholar, vol. 13, no. 2 / 3, Spring 1982, pp. 2 - 29.
Guttridge, Leonard F. Mutiny: A History of Naval Insurrection. Berkley, 1992.
Olwell, Russell. “The Mare Island Mutiny: Pressure to Desegregate the U.S. Armed Forces.” OAH Magazine of History, vol. 15, no. 2, Winter 2001, pp. 64 - 70.
Reddick, L.D. “The Negro in the United States Navy During World War II.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 32, no. 2, Apr 1947, pp. 201 - 219.
Wollenberg, Charles. “Black vs. Navy Blue: The Mare Island Mutiny Court Martial.” California History, vol. 58, no. 1, Spring 1979, pp. 62 - 75.
https://portchicagoalliance.org/history.html - Port Chicago Alliance website
https://portchicagomemorial.org/2006/03/19/port-chicago-in-print-and-music/
- Port Chicago Mutiny Jazz Suite
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In this two-part episode we delve into a disaster on the US home front during WWII and the subsequent work stoppage that contributed to the eventual desegregation of the US Navy.
Part I deals with the Port Chicago disaster itself, and Part II will cover the details of the famous "mutiny" that took place in its aftermath.
Sources:
https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1944/port-chicago/port-chicago-lessons-learned.html
Allen, Robert L. “The Port Chicago Disaster and Its Aftermath.” The Black Scholar, vol. 13, no. 2 / 3, Spring 1982, pp. 2 - 29.
Guttridge, Leonard F. Mutiny: A History of Naval Insurrection. Berkley, 1992.
Olwell, Russell. “The Mare Island Mutiny: Pressure to Desegregate the U.S. Armed Forces.” OAH Magazine of History, vol. 15, no. 2, Winter 2001, pp. 64 - 70.
Reddick, L.D. “The Negro in the United States Navy During World War II.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 32, no. 2, Apr 1947, pp. 201 - 219.
Wollenberg, Charles. “Black vs. Navy Blue: The Mare Island Mutiny Court Martial.” California History, vol. 58, no. 1, Spring 1979, pp. 62 - 75.
https://portchicagoalliance.org/history.html - Port Chicago Alliance website
https://portchicagomemorial.org/2006/03/19/port-chicago-in-print-and-music/
- Port Chicago Mutiny Jazz Suite
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In this episode we discuss HMS Hermes, the first vessel designed explicitly as an aircraft carrier.
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Sources:
"Hermes". World War II Database. Osprey Publishing. https://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=160
"HMS Hermes I: Fleet Aircraft Carrier." Index of Naval Aircraft Carriers.
Symonds, Craig L. World War II at Sea: A Global History. Oxford University Press, 2018.
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This week it's the story of the cargo vessel MV Rema, lost in the North Sea in April 1998.
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Sources:
Flooding and sinking of dry cargo vessel Rema with loss of 4 lives. https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/flooding-and-sinking-of-dry-cargo-vessel-rema-off-whitby-england-with-loss-of-4-lives
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This week we have the saga of the SS Springfjord, which survived World War Two unscathed but could not escape the wrath of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Sources:
Handy, Jim. Gift of the Devil: A History of Guatemala. South End Press, 1984.
Handy, Jim. Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944 - 1954. University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Prados, John. The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness. The New Press, 2017.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101105080457/http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000919986/DOC_0000919986.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/1954/07/01/archives/the-text-of-dulles-speech-on-guatemalan-upset.html
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This week it's the tale of the small fishing vessel Tullaghmurry Lass, lost in the Irish Sea on February 14th 2002.
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Sources:
Andrews, Rachel and Liam O'Brien. "Tullaghmurry Lass." RTÉ Radio 1, March 2005. https://www.rte.ie/radio/doconone/646256-lass
"Kilkeel Harbour." eOceanic, https://eoceanic.com/sailing/harbours/113/kilkeel_harbour_county_down_ireland.
McDonald, Henry and Paul Harris. "Three generations lost in family fishing tragedy." The Guardian, 16 Feb 2002. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/feb/17/henrymcdonald.paulharris
“Report of investigation into sinking of FV Tullaghmurry Lass N246 with loss of three lives in the Irish Sea on 14 February 2002.” Marine Accident Investigation Branch, February 2003. https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/explosion-on-board-prawn-trawler-mussel-dredger-tullaghmurry-lass-resulting-in-vessel-sinking-off-kilkeel-northern-ireland-with-loss-of-3-lives
Tanney, Paul. "Wreck of missing NI trawler is located." The Irish Times, 23 Mar 2002. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/wreck-of-missing-ni-trawler-is-located-1.1054754
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This week it's the tale of the Nantucket lightship LV-117 and her fateful collision with the Titanic's older sister.
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Sources:
media.defense.gov/2020/Sep/28/2002507189/-1/-1/0/LIGHTSHIP_SNAPSHOT_OF_LIFE_ABOARD_LV78.PDF
https://web.archive.org/web/20121024033319/https://www.uscg.mil/history/weblightships/LV117.asp
Chirnside, Mark. The 'Olympic' Class Ships: Olympic, Titanic, Britannic. 2nd rev. ed., The History Press, 2011
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In this episode we discuss a maritime incident from March 2011 that saw the container ship COSCO Hong Kong collide with fishing transportation vessel Zhe Ling Yu Yun 135 off the coast of Zhejiang Province.
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Sources:
“Collision between container vessel Cosco Hongkong and fish transportation vessel Zhe Ling Yu Yun 135 with loss of 11 lives.” Marine Accident Investigation Branch, 23 Jan 2015. https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/collision-between-container-vessel-cosco-hongkong-and-fish-transportation-vessel-zhe-ling-yu-yun-135-east-china-sea-with-loss-of-11-lives
Yi, Zaicai. “Study on collision between fishing vessels and merchant ships within the China coastal waters.” World Maritime University, 23 Aug 2015.
https://commons.wmu.se/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1125&context=msem_dissertations
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The first episode of Season 6 (!) takes us to Sydney Harbor for the story of the ferry Rodney.
[The main story starts at 11:39]
This episode ends with a trailer for the Season 6 Patreon (intro music - 'Poppy' by our pals Nadezhda https://nadezhda.bandcamp.com/) and preview for non-patrons of the Guadalcanal bonus series.
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Sources:
"80 Years on: the Rodney ferry disaster." Sydney Morning Herald, 13 Feb 2018. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/80-years-on-the-rodney-ferry-disaster-20180208-h0vs63.html
Lennon, Troy. "19 died when the Rodney ferry capsized as people rushed to farewell US warship Louisville." Daily Telegraph, 13 Feb 2018. https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/today-in-history/19-died-when-the-rodney-ferry-capsized-as-people-rushed-to-farewell-us-warship-louisville/news-story/0d0fe4feb123318c05533537ce54f8c9
"Sinking of the ferry Rodney." Daily Telegraph Mirror, 8 Feb 1991. https://messui.polygonal-moogle.com/incident/1938_rodney.pdf
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This episode is part two(of two) on the life and times of the German battleship Tirpitz.
*This is also the final episode of Season 5 - thanks for listening and we will be back with a new season soon!
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Sources:
Hansen, Kenneth P. “Raeder Versus Wegener: Conflict in German Naval Strategy.” The Naval War College Review, vol. 58, no. 4, Autumn 2005.
Knowles, Daniel.Tirpitz: The Life and Death of Germany's Last Great Battleship. Fonthill Media, 2018.
Steinberg, Jonathan. Yesterday’s Deterrent: Tirpitz and the Birth of the German Battle Fleet. Macmillan, 1965.
Symonds, Craig L. World War II at Sea: A Global History. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Zetterling, Niklas and Michael Tamelander. Tirpitz: The Life and Death of Germany’s Last Super Battleship. Casemate, 2009.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190219133255/https://www.tirpitz-museum.no/#home
https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/18149/Tirpitz-Museum.htm
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This episode is part one (of two) on the life and times of the German battleship Tirpitz.
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Sources:
Hansen, Kenneth P. “Raeder Versus Wegener: Conflict in German Naval Strategy.” The Naval War College Review, vol. 58, no. 4, Autumn 2005.
Knowles, Daniel.Tirpitz: The Life and Death of Germany's Last Great Battleship. Fonthill Media, 2018.
Steinberg, Jonathan. Yesterday’s Deterrent: Tirpitz and the Birth of the German Battle Fleet. Macmillan, 1965.
Symonds, Craig L. World War II at Sea: A Global History. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Zetterling, Niklas and Michael Tamelander. Tirpitz: The Life and Death of Germany’s Last Super Battleship. Casemate, 2009.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190219133255/https://www.tirpitz-museum.no/#home
https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/18149/Tirpitz-Museum.htm
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This week it's the tale of the Portuguese galleon Padre Eterno, launched in the Bay of Guanabara in 1663. More the story of a ship that did wreck at some point and the world she inhabited rather than a nuts-and-bolts 'shipwreck' yarn.
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Sources:
Blackburn, Robin. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492 - 1800. Verso, 1998.
Camenietzki, Carlos Ziller. “O galeão Padre Eterno.” BN Digital Brasil. https://bndigital.bn.gov.br/dossies/historia-da-ciencia/o-galeao-padre-eterno/
Costa, Fernando Dores. A Guerra da Restauração, 1641 - 1668 (Temas de História de Portugal. Livros Horizonte, 2004.
Gomes, Laurentino. Escravidão, Volume I: Do primeiro leilão de cativos em Portugal até a morte de Zumbi dos Palmares. GloboLivros, 2019.
Lara Mesquita, João. “Padre Eterno: maior navio do século 17 no Brasil.” Mar Sem Fim, 13 Jan 2020. https://marsemfim.com.br/maior-navio-do-mundo-no-seculo-17-foi-construido-no-brasil/
Marcolin, Neldson. “Por mares sempre navegados.” Pesquisa, vol. 189, Nov 2011. https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/por-mares-sempre-navegados/
Russell-Wood, A. J. R. The Portuguese Empire, 1415 - 1808: A World On The Move. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
https://lisboa-e-o-tejo.blogspot.com/2019/06/padre-eterno.html
Els Segadors (Catalan National Anthem) referenced in the episode
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We've unlocked a bonus episode for everyone, since there's some useful information here for an upcoming main episode dealing with Portugal/Brazil.
Sources:
Blackburn, Robin. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492 - 1800. Verso Books, 1998.
Silva, Daniel Neves. "Escravidão no Brasil." Universo Online, https://mundoeducacao.uol.com.br/historiadobrasil/escravidao-no-brasil.htm
Tinnie, Dinizulu Gene. “The Slaving Brig Henriqueta and Her Evil Sisters: A Case Study in the 19th Century Illegal Slave Trade to Brazil.” The Journal of African American History, vol. 93, no. 4, Fall 2008, pp. 509 - 531.
"Trans-Atlantic Slave Trades - Estimates." https://www.slavevoyages.org/assessment/estimates
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This is a short preview of our most recent $3 bonus episode - sign up on Patreon at the $3 Able Seaperson tier for an extra episode each month, or the $5 2nd Mate tier for two extra episodes.
Patrons also get main episodes a few days early, plus occasional bits of the main episode that are edited out on the main feed release.
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We're back to discuss the career of the SS Pacific (not that one, the other one!) We'll even throw in a rail disaster for free.
Sources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20091215121426/http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsP-Q.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20100120135812/http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/collins.html
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep062/usrep062372/usrep062372.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20141024184337/http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/home2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15011
https://www.pilotcatholicnews.com/article.php?ID=197412
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Here we have the long-awaited conclusion to our epic series on the saga of HMCS Karluk
Don't forget that there is a bonus Part V available for patrons, covering Stefansson's later ill-fated attempt at colonizing Wrangel Island
Major thanks to Jess (@jesslovesboats) for guiding us through this story!
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Sources:
Cavell, Janice. “The Karluk’s Lost Men: The Alexander Anderson and Alister Forbes Mackay Parties, 1914.” The Journal of the Hakluyt Society, March 2025, pp. 1 - 31.
Diubaldo, Richard J. Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1978.
Jenness, Stuart E. Stefansson, Dr. Anderson, and the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918: A Story of Exploration, Science and Sovereignty. Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation, 2011.
Levere, Trevor H. “Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Continental Shelf, and a New Arctic Continent.” The British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 21, no. 2, June 1988, pp. 233 - 247.
Levy, Buddy. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk. St Martin’s Press, 2022.
Niven, Jennifer. The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk. Hyperion, 2000.
Sowards, Adam M. “Claiming Spaces for Science.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol. 47, no. 2, Apr 2017, pp. 164 - 199.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. The Friendly Arctic. Macmillan, 1921. www.loc.gov/item/21021129/
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. “Letter from Mr. Stefansson.” The Geographical Journal, vol. 52, no. 4, Oct 1918, pp. 248 - 255.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. “‘Living Off the Country’ as a Method of Arctic Exploration.” Geographical Review, vol. 7, no. 5, May 1919, pp. 291 - 310.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. “Plover Land and Borden Land.” Geographic Review, vol. 11, no. 2, Apr 1921, pp. 283 - 291.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. “Stefansson’s Expedition.” Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, vol. 46, no. 3, 1914, pp. 184 - 191.
UPI. “North Pole fuss just Peary’s word against Cook’s now.” https://www.upi.com/Archives/1909/09/10/Pole-fuss-just-Pearys-word-against-Cooks-now/3310181788478/
Webb, Melody. “Arctic Saga: Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s Attempt to Colonize Wrangel Island.” Pacific Historical Review, vol. 61, no. 2, May 1992, pp. 215 - 239.
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Jess (@jesslovesboats) is back to navigate us through Part Three (of Four) in the saga of the Karluk!
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Sources for Part II:
Cavell, Janice. "The Karluk's Lost Men: The Alexander Anderson and Alister Forbes Mackay Parties, 1914." The Journal of the Hakluyt Society, March 2025, pp. 1 - 31.
Diubaldo, Richard J. Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1978.
Levere, Trevor H. “Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Continental Shelf, and a New Arctic Continent.” The British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 21, no. 2, June 1988, pp. 233 - 247.
Levy, Buddy. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk. St Martin’s Press, 2022.
Niven, Jennifer. The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk. Hyperion, 2000.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. The Friendly Arctic. Macmillan, 1921. www.loc.gov/item/21021129/
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. “Letter from Mr. Stefansson.” The Geographical Journal, vol. 52, no. 4, Oct 1918, pp. 248 - 255.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. “‘Living Off the Country’ as a Method of Arctic Exploration.” Geographical Review, vol. 7, no. 5, May 1919, pp. 291 - 310.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. “Stefansson’s Expedition.” Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, vol. 46, no. 3, 1914, pp. 184 - 191.
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Jess is back as we get further into the saga of the Karluk (emphasis on the second syllable). If you've been waiting for the shipwreck, wait no more!
Sources for Part II:
Cavell, Janice. "The Karluk's Lost Men: The Alexander Anderson and Alister Forbes Mackay Parties, 1914." The Journal of the Hakluyt Society, March 2025, pp. 1 - 31.
Diubaldo, Richard J. Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1978.
Levere, Trevor H. “Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Continental Shelf, and a New Arctic Continent.” The British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 21, no. 2, June 1988, pp. 233 - 247.
Levy, Buddy. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk. St Martin’s Press, 2022.
Niven, Jennifer. The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk. Hyperion, 2000.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. The Friendly Arctic. Macmillan, 1921. www.loc.gov/item/21021129/
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. “Letter from Mr. Stefansson.” The Geographical Journal, vol. 52, no. 4, Oct 1918, pp. 248 - 255.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. “‘Living Off the Country’ as a Method of Arctic Exploration.” Geographical Review, vol. 7, no. 5, May 1919, pp. 291 - 310.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. “Stefansson’s Expedition.” Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, vol. 46, no. 3, 1914, pp. 184 - 191.
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We're joined by longtime listener and longer time polar exploration enthusiast Jessica (@jesslovesboats) for a tale that would be a certified goofball comedy if not for the overwhelming tragedy of it - it's the story of the Karluk, the Canadian Arctic Expedition, and the men, women, and (yes!) children who fought to survive in some of the cruelest conditions that Planet Earth has to offer.
*This is Part One of a four-part series; there will also be an Able Seaperson-tier bonus episode related to this series
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Sources for Part I:
Cavell, Janice. "The Karluk's Lost Men: The Alexander Anderson and Alister Forbes Mackay Parties, 1914." The Journal of the Hakluyt Society, March 2025, pp. 1 - 31.
Diubaldo, Richard J. Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1978.
Levy, Buddy. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk. St Martin’s Press, 2022.
Niven, Jennifer. The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk. Hyperion, 2000.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. The Friendly Arctic. Macmillan, 1921. www.loc.gov/item/21021129/
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. “Letter from Mr. Stefansson.” The Geographical Journal, vol. 52, no. 4, Oct 1918, pp. 248 - 255.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. “‘Living Off the Country’ as a Method of Arctic Exploration.” Geographical Review, vol. 7, no. 5, May 1919, pp. 291 - 310.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. “Stefansson’s Expedition.” Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, vol. 46, no. 3, 1914, pp. 184 - 191.
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This week it's the story of a battleship so famous that they made an entire musical about her.
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Don't forget to check out our guest appearance on We Always Lie to Strangers where we are introduced to the 1953 Springfield Missouri Cobra Scare.
Sources:
Evans, David C. The Japanese Navy in World War II: In the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers, 2nd Edition. Naval Institute Press, 2017.
Toll, Ian W. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941 - 1942. Norton, 2012.
"Salvage of the USS Oklahoma, 1942 - 1944." Naval History and Heritage Command. https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/wars-and-events/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor-raid/post-attack-ship-salvage/salvage-of-uss-oklahoma--1942-1944.html
"USS Oklahoma (Battleship # 37, later BB-37), 1916-1946." Naval History and Heritage Command. https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/battleships/oklahoma-bb-37.html
"USS Oklahoma - Official Website." https://ussoklahoma.com/
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This week it is the story of the narrowboat Drum Major and her 1998 foundering on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal that resulted in multiple deaths.
*there is about 19 minutes of intro in this one so skip accordingly if you want to get into things right away
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Sources:
Clarke, Mike. The Leeds & Liverpool Canal: A History and Guide. Carnegie Publishing, 1994.
Farrington, J.H. “The Leeds and Liverpool Canal: A Study in Route Selection.” Area, vol. 1, no. 1, 1969, pp. 22 - 23.
“Report on the investigation of the foundering of the narrow boat Drum Major with the loss of four lives at Steg Neck lock near Gargrave, North Yorkshire on 19 August 1998.” Marine Accident Investigation Branch, 20 Dec 1999. https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/contact-and-sinking-of-narrow-boat-drum-major-while-descending-in-steg-neck-lock-on-the-leeds-and-liverpool-canal-near-gargrave-england-with-loss-of-4-live
"Son is hailed a hero. " Telegraph and Argus, 21 Aug 1998. https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8074182.son-is-hailed-a-hero/
Wainwright, Martin. "Teenager dived in vain to save four on sinking barge." The Guardian, 3 June 1999. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jun/04/martinwainwright
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Honorary third host of the podcast Kaylee is back this week to join us in discussing the R.J. Hackett, a vessel that changed the way bulk cargo was transported on the Great Lakes and laid the groundwork for the designs we still see today.
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Sources:
Baker, Newton D. “Transportation on the Great Lakes.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 171, Jan 1934, pp. 204 - 210.
Bowlus, Bruce. “Bold Experiments: The Evolution of the Great Lakes Ore Carrier.” Michigan Historical Review, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring 1996, pp. 1 - 17.
“Steamer Hackett Burns.” The Sturgeon Bay Advocate, vol. 44, no. 34, 18 Nov 1905.
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We are joined by the baddest boys in the Ozarks - We Always Lie To Strangers - to discuss the I-40 Bridge Disaster, which saw the towboat Robert Y. Love impact a bridge over the Arkansas river near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, on May 26 2002.
(Wish we could claim the foresight to have scheduled this for the anniversary but that is entirely 100% coincidental)
You can find everything WALTS-related here
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Sources:
"5NEWS Vault | I-40 Bridge Collapse in Webbers Falls (Part 2)." 5NEWS, 25 Apr 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKQVicEbWak
Baird, Austin. "The curious cases of William James Clark." Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug 2011. https://www.adn.com/features/article/curious-cases-william-james-clark/2011/08/26/
Doucette, Bob. "Missourian charged with impersonation at bridge collapse." The Oklahoman, 14 June 2022. https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2002/06/14/missourian-charged-with-impersonation-at-bridge-collapse/62091068007/
"Heartbreak And Hope: 20 Years After The I-40 Bridge Collapse." News 9 YouTube, 4 June 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OApNUebSC54
"MKARNS 12-foot Channel." US Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District. https://www.swl.usace.army.mil/Missions/Planning/MKARNS-12-foot-Channel/
"MKARNS marks 50th anniversary." Oklahoma Department of Transportation. https://oklahoma.gov/odot/programs-and-projects/programs/multimodal/freight-transportation/waterways/mkarns-50th-anniversary.html
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit. "United States of America v. William James Clark." 6 Apr 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20100903160625/http://ca10.washburnlaw.edu/cases/2004/04/03-7100.htm
"U.S. Towboat Robert Y. Love Allision With Interstate 40 Highway Bridge Near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, May 26, 2002." National Transportation Safety Board, 31 Aug 2004. ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HAR0405.pdf
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Here we conclude the main story of the mutiny on the whaleship Globe where everyone lives happily ever after in a tropical paradise. Or something like that.
meant to cut in a minor edit for this episode - George Comstock was 15 by the time the Globe sailed, and Samuel was 20*
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Sources:
Couper, Alastair. “Dangers, Mutinies, and the Law.” Sailors and Traders: A Maritime History of the Pacific Peoples.” University of Hawai’i Press
Gibson, Gregory. Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe. Little, Brown, and Company, 2002.
Heffernan, Thomas Farel. The Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock. Norton, 2002.
Hoyt, Edwin P. The Mutiny on the Globe. Random House, 1975.
Woodman, Richard. A Brief History of Mutiny. Carroll & Graf, 2005.
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Following up on our Battleship Potemkin bonus, we are staying in the mutinous mood with this two-part series on the whaleship Globe, and the enigmatic boatsteerer Samuel Comstock who would cast her into infamy.
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Sources:
Couper, Alastair. “Dangers, Mutinies, and the Law.” Sailors and Traders: A Maritime History of the Pacific Peoples.” University of Hawai’i Press
Gibson, Gregory. Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe. Little, Brown, and Company, 2002.
Heffernan, Thomas Farel. The Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock. Norton, 2002.
Hoyt, Edwin P. The Mutiny on the Globe. Random House, 1975.
Woodman, Richard. A Brief History of Mutiny. Carroll & Graf, 2005.
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this is a short preview of a much longer bonus episode we did on Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, available for $3 and $5 patrons
Religious symbolism plays a major role in the works of Sergei Eisenstein, so we found ourselves discussing it quite a bit during our episode on Battleship Potemkin. For Easter, we've cut those sections of the episode together in one concentrated mini-episode.
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This week we discuss the loss of the USS Turner, a Gleaves-class destroyer that sank off of New York City in January 1944.
Jump to around 13:30 to get right into the action
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Sources:
"Gleaves class destroyers (1940)." https://naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/us/gleaves-class-destroyers.php
Naczi, Robert F. "Special: Tragedy Strikes in New York Harbor." U.S. Naval Institute, December 1995, https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1995/december/special-tragedy-strikes-new-york-harbor
Verga, Christopher. "Sinking of the U.S.S. Turner: Tragedy, Heroism, and Mystery." Fire Island News, 26 Dec 2024. https://www.fireislandnews.com/history/sinking-of-the-u-s-s-turner-tragedy-heroism-and-mystery/#:~:text=Huus%20rapidly%20mobilized%20his%20crew,survivors%20before%20additional%20help%20arrived
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In this episode we go deep into the history books to discuss the deadliest maritime disaster we've covered up to this point.
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Tolkien, J.R.R.The Fall of Númenor. Edited by Brian Sibley, William Morrow, 2024.
Tolkien, J.R.R. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth. Edited by Christopher Tolkien, Mariner Books, 1980.
Tyler, J.E.A. The Complete Tolkien Companion. Thomas Dunne Books, 1976.
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Here is a short clip from our most recent 2nd Mate Tier bonus episode: 'The Ignoble Means by Which That Wealth Was Accumulated' - The Slaving Brig Henriqueta and the Illicit Slave Trade to Brazil
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This week we have the story of the jackup rig Kolskaya, lost in the Sea of Okhotsk in December 2011.
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Sources:
"Буровая платформа Кольская - трагедия и надежда." www.kolskaya.com
"How do jackup rigs work?" https://www.rigzone.com/training/insight?insight_id=339&c_id=24
История крушения Кольской нефтяной платформы. Обо всем из жизни, 27 Dec 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzv_O3ZIU8Q
Kostanov, Yuri. “Платформа 'Кольская': кто и когда ответит за это трагедию?” Морские вести России (Maritime News of Russia). 12 Apr 2015. https://morvesti.ru/themes/1693/53317/
Nordlander, David J. “Origins of a Gulag Capital: Magadan and Stalinist Control in the Early 1930s.” Slavic Review, vol. 57, no. 4, Winter 1998, pp. 791 - 812.
Sandberg, Finn Harald. "Kolskaya - an outsider with a tragic fate." Valhall: Industrial Heritage. https://valhall.industriminne.no/en/kolskaya-an-outsider-with-a-tragic-fate/
Shturma, Yana. “‘Она вся была как груда льда’ - 10 лет трагедии на нефтяной платформе Кольская.” Gazeta, 18 Dec 2021. https://www.gazeta.ru/social/2021/12/18/14323573.shtml
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This week we are discussing a smashingly successful air attack conducted by the Empire of Japan in December 1941 (but not that one).
Jump to around 14:30 to get right to the action
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Sources:
Bell, Christopher M. “The ‘Singapore Strategy’ and the Deterrence of Japan: Winston Churchill, the Admiralty and the Dispatch of Force Z.” The English Historical Review, vol. 116, no. 467, Jun 2001, pp. 604 - 634.
Garzke, William H., Robert O. Dulin, and Kevin V. Denlay. "Death of a Battleship: The Loss of HMS Prince of Wales, December 10, 1941 - A Marine Forensic Analysis of the Sinking." 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20220327195109/https://pacificwrecks.com/ships/hms/prince_of_wales/death-of-a-battleship-2012-update.pdf
Toll, Ian W. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944 - 1945. Norton, 2020.
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It's all regional rivalries and riverine wrecks this week as we discuss the sidewheel steamer Empire of Troy (1843 - 1853).
*jump to around [13:00] if you want to dive right in to the main part of the episode
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Sources:
Allison, J. Thomas. Hudson River Steamboat Catastrophes: Contests & Collisions. The History Press, 2013.
Ellis, David Maldwyn. “Albany and Troy - Commercial Rivals.” New York History, vol. 24, no. 4, October 1943, pp. 484 - 511.
Ellis, David Maldwyn. “Rise of the Empire State, 1790 - 1820.” New York History, vol. 56, no. 1, Jan 1975, pp. 4 - 27.
Newspapers referenced within episode:
Boston Atlas
Cleveland Daily Herald
New York Daily Tribune
New York Herald
New York Times
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We kick off Season 5 by getting back to the Great Lakes for the story of the SS Francisco Morazan
*Taylor's new mic sounds great but we are still getting Tanner's audio situation resolved
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Sources:
"Francisco Morazan." National Park Service, 2024. https://www.nps.gov/slbe/learn/historyculture/shipwreckmorazan.htm
"Personaje Histórico Francisco Morazan." Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/honduras_francisco_morazan/
Warner, Gene L. "The Last Shipwreck." Manitou Islands Archives Newsletter, vol. 1 no. 4, Winter 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20110727061018/http://www.manitouislandsarchives.org/archives/newsletters/v1n4.pdf
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In this final episode of Season 4, we conclude the tale of the oil tanker SS Torrey Canyon.
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Sources:
Green, Anna and Timothy Cooper. “Community and Exclusion: The Torrey Canyon Disaster of 1967.” The Journal of Social History, vol. 48, no. 4, 2015, pp. 892 - 909.
Gundlach, Erich. R. “Oil Tanker Disasters.” Environment, vol. 19, no. 9, December 1977, pp. 16 - 27.
Petrow, Richard. In the Wake of Torrey Canyon: The Great Oil Disaster - Its Causes, Consequences, and Lessons for the Future. David McKay Company, 1968.
- Published in Britain as The Black Tide
Sheail, John. “Torrey Canyon: The Political Dimension.” The Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 485 - 504.
Uekotter, Frank. The Vortex. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.
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In Part II we get into the wreck itself and some of the initial attempts at salvage and containment
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Sources:
Green, Anna and Timothy Cooper. “Community and Exclusion: The Torrey Canyon Disaster of 1967.” The Journal of Social History, vol. 48, no. 4, 2015, pp. 892 - 909.
Hassler, Bjorn. “Accidental Versus Operational Oil Spills from Shipping in the Baltic Sea: Risk Governance and Management Strategies.” Ambio, vol. 40, 2011, pp. 170 - 178.
Petrow, Richard. In the Wake of Torrey Canyon: The Great Oil Disaster - Its Causes, Consequences, and Lessons for the Future. David McKay Company, 1968.
- Published in Britain as The Black Tide
Sheail, John. “Torrey Canyon: The Political Dimension.” The Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 485 - 504.
Uekotter, Frank. The Vortex. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.
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This week we begin the story of the SS Torrey Canyon, the first major oil tanker spill in history. This part of the episode has us looking into the background of the vessel itself and her captain, Pastrengo Rugiati.
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Sources:
Green, Anna and Timothy Cooper. “Community and Exclusion: The Torrey Canyon Disaster of 1967.” The Journal of Social History, vol. 48, no. 4, 2015, pp. 892 - 909.
Hassler, Bjorn. “Accidental Versus Operational Oil Spills from Shipping in the Baltic Sea: Risk Governance and Management Strategies.” Ambio, vol. 40, 2011, pp. 170 - 178.
Petrow, Richard. In the Wake of Torrey Canyon: The Great Oil Disaster - Its Causes, Consequences, and Lessons for the Future. David McKay Company, 1968.
- Published in Britain as The Black Tide
Sheail, John. “Torrey Canyon: The Political Dimension.” The Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 485 - 504.
Uekotter, Frank. The Vortex. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.
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This is an old bonus episode that we are unlocking to hopefully poach some listens off of a certain very popular podcast about engineering disasters (with slides), which just released an episode about the true story of the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer
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Kaylee is back with us for Breakerween 2024 - this year we've got spooky tales of a haunted U-boat, fishing for Oldsmobiles, and a veritable fleet of ultrabuoyant American-made caskets.
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This week we have another U-boat episode, but this time we're down in the Gulf of Mexico to talk about the SS Robert E. Lee (booooo)
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Sources:
"The Panic of 1907 and the Maine Man Who Caused It." New England Historical Society. https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-panic-of-1907-and-the-maine-man-who-caused-it/
"Robert E. Lee." Uboat.net. https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/1981.html
"Screening Level Risk Assessment Package: Robert E. Lee". Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.
Sidle, Jeffrey. "The search for the USS Honesdale." River Reporter, 27 Sept 2023. https://riverreporter.com/stories/the-search-for-the-uss-honesdale,118041
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This week we have wrangled a real live Canadian to discuss the October 1804 sinking of His Majesty's Armed Vessel Speedy and the impact of her loss on the province of Upper Canada.
one of our upcoming bonus episodes will look at the search for the Speedy's wrecksite
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Sources:
Baillod, Brendon. “The Enduring Mystery of the HMS Speedy.” Shipwreck World, 3 December 2019. https://www.shipwreckworld.com/articles/the-enduring-mystery-of-the-hms-speedy-1.
Bojarzin, David. “HMS Speedy: Murder and a Mystery.” Friends of Presqu’ile Park.
Buchanan, Dan. The Wreck of HMS Speedy. Milner & Associates, 2020.
Climo, Percy L. “The mysterious sinking of The Speedy.” Saturday Morning Post, 9 June 1990.
Girard, Philip. "Rearguard or Vanguard? A New Look at Canada's Constitutional Act of 1791." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. 50, no. 1, 2022, pp. 1-24.
Lee-Shanok, Philip. “Search is on for HMS Speedy - the ship that changed history.” CBC News, 2 Nov 2018.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/constitutional-act-1791
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They were rescued by the Coast Guard, it counts.
Sources:
Civil Aeronautics Board - Accident Investigation Report. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/33563
"The Ditching." Time, 29 Oct 1956. https://web.archive.org/web/20070428134921/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867172,00.html
Stannard, Matthew B. "Danville pilot has historical predecessor." SFGate, 24 Jan 2009. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/danville-pilot-has-historical-predecessor-3175278.php
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This week we have a steamboat tale to tell, specifically the story of the Ohio River steamer Scioto and her deadly collision with the John Lomas in 1882.
Sources:
Bailey, Kenneth R. "The 'Scioto' Disaster." West Virginia HIstory, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 49 - 72.
"A Pall of Egyptian Gloom: The Sinking of the 'Scioto'". East Liverpool Historical Society, http://www.eastliverpoolhistoricalsociety.org/scioto1.htm
Various excerpts from 1881 - 1882 editions of the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer and Daily Register
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This week we are in the city of Baltimore to discuss the 2004 sinking of the water taxi Lady D.
A big thanks to our listener Josh for suggesting this as a topic for the show!
Sources:
"Baltimore Sea Cadets Cited For Rescue Efforts After Water Taxi Capsizes." Sea Power, July 2004.
"Capsizing of U.S. Small Passenger Vessel Lady D, Northwest Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland, March 6, 2004." National Transportation Safety Board.
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This bonus episode was recorded for July 2023. After a year marinating in the patrons-only vault, we think it's time you hear it on the main feed!
In this episode we discuss the publicity tours of the German cruiser Karlsruhe during the Interwar years, where the vessel found some cities quite welcoming and others decidedly less so
Santiago Ramos, Simone. "Gone to Texas - Twice! The Visits of the German War Cruiser Karlsruhe." The East Texas Historical Journal, vol. 53, no. 1, Spring 2015, pp. 24 - 45.
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Story picks back up around 11:20 if you want to get right down to brittle steel tacks
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Part One (of two, we promise) on the sinking of the lake freighter Daniel J. Morrell in 1966.
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Sources:
Boyer, Dwight. Ships and Men of the Great Lakes. Freshwater Press, 1977.
History of Steelmaking in Johnstown
Morrell, Daniel J. Great Lakes Vessel History.
Schumacher, Michael. Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Schumacher, Michael. Torn In Two: The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell and One Man’s Survival on the Open Sea. University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Thompson, Mark L. Graveyard of the Lakes. Wayne State University Press, 2000.
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This week we finally take down a ship that has been referenced a few times here and there but never actually been the star of her own show - SS Mataafa (yes the one from the storm)
We're joined once again by Kaylee (@kayleefabulous) who just this week has released her second album, Leading Lady(buy it on Bandcamp!) - we've included 'Seek and Destroy' at the end of the episode
Sources:
Lemay, Konnie. "The Mataafa Blow: The Stormy Horror of 1905." Lake Superior Magazine, 1 Oct 2005. https://www.lakesuperior.com/the-lake/maritime/the-mataafa-blow-stormy-horror-of-1905/
Miller, Al. Tin Stackers: The History of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company. Wayne State University Press, 1999.
Thompson, Mark L. Graveyard of the Lakes. Wayne State University Press, 2000.
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This week we have another tale from the American Civil War - it's the sidewheel steamer Star of the West, focusing on her abortive attempt to relieve Fort Sumter in early 1861 and her service on the Confederate side at the Siege of Vicksburg in 1863
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Sources:
Larson, Erik. The Demon of Unrest: A Sage of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War. Crown, 2024.
McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Oxford University Press, 1988.
Miller, Donald L. Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy. Simon & Schuster, 2020.
“Star of the West” is fired upon | January 9, 1861 | HISTORY
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Mama never told you there'd be deals like this! Every month you can get even more Beyond the Breakers by joining us on Patreon at the $3 or $5 tier! $3 a month (Able Seaperson) gets you one bonus episode, $5 (2nd Mate) gets you two (or more??) per month.
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Here we have the epic finale of this three-part series - Famagusta will fall, and for the last time two fleets composed primarily of galleys will meet in a major engagement.
Sources:
Anievas, Alexander and Kerem Nişancioğlu. “The Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry over the Long Sixteenth Century.” How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism. Pluto Press.
Bicheno, Hugh. Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto 1571. Phoenix, 2004.
Brummett, Palmira. “Foreign Policy, Naval Strategy, and the Defence of the Ottoman Empire in the Early Sixteenth Century.” The International History Review, vol. 11, no. 4, Nov 1989, pp. 613 - 627.
Crowley, Roger. Empires of the Sea. Random House, 2008.
Elliott, J. H. Imperial Spain, 1469 - 1716. Penguin, 2002.
Finkel, Caroline. Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. Basic Books, 2005.
Hess, Andrew C. “The Battle of Lepanto and Its Place in Mediterranean History.” Past & Present, no. 57, Nov 1972, pp. 53 - 73.
Hess, Andrew C. “The Evolution of the Ottoman Seaborne Empire in the Age of the Oceanic Discoveries, 1453 - 1525.” The American Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 7, Dec 1970, pp. 1892 - 1919.
Soucek, Svatopluk. “Naval Aspects of the Ottoman Conquests of Rhodes, Cyprus and Crete.” Studia Islamica, no. 98/99, 2004, pp. 219 - 261
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This is Part 2 of our (now) three part series leading up to the Battle of Lepanto.
Sources:
Anievas, Alexander and Kerem Nişancioğlu. “The Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry over the Long Sixteenth Century.” How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism. Pluto Press.
Brummett, Palmira. “Foreign Policy, Naval Strategy, and the Defence of the Ottoman Empire in the Early Sixteenth Century.” The International History Review, vol. 11, no. 4, Nov 1989, pp. 613 - 627.
Crowley, Roger. Empires of the Sea. Random House, 2008.
Finkel, Caroline. Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. Basic Books, 2005.
Goodwin, Jason. Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire. Henry Holt and Company, 1998.
Hess, Andrew C. “The Battle of Lepanto and Its Place in Mediterranean History.” Past & Present, no. 57, Nov 1972, pp. 53 - 73.
Hess, Andrew C. “The Evolution of the Ottoman Seaborne Empire in the Age of the Oceanic Discoveries, 1453 - 1525.” The American Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 7, Dec 1970, pp. 1892 - 1919.
Libby, Lester J. Venetian Views of the Ottoman Empire from the Peace of 1503 to the War of Cyprus.” The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 9, no. 4, Winter 1978, pp. 103 - 126.
Martin, Colin and Geoffrey Parker. The Spanish Armada. Norton, 1988.
Soucek, Svatopluk. “Naval Aspects of the Ottoman Conquests of Rhodes, Cyprus and Crete.” Studia Islamica, no. 98/99, 2004, pp. 219 - 261
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This is part 1 of 2 in our discussion of the naval battle at Lepanto in 1571. Before we can get to Lepanto itself, there's a good bit of background to set up first.
Sources:
Anievas, Alexander and Kerem Nişancioğlu. “The Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry over the Long Sixteenth Century.” How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism. Pluto Press.
Bicheno, Hugh. Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto 1571. Phoenix, 2004.
Brummett, Palmira. “Foreign Policy, Naval Strategy, and the Defence of the Ottoman Empire in the Early Sixteenth Century.” The International History Review, vol. 11, no. 4, Nov 1989, pp. 613 - 627.
Crowley, Roger. Empires of the Sea. Random House, 2008.
Elliott, J. H. Imperial Spain, 1469 - 1716. Penguin, 2002.
Finkel, Caroline. Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. Basic Books, 2005.
Goodwin, Jason. Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire. Henry Holt and Company, 1998.
Hess, Andrew C. “The Battle of Lepanto and Its Place in Mediterranean History.” Past & Present, no. 57, Nov 1972, pp. 53 - 73.
Hess, Andrew C. “The Evolution of the Ottoman Seaborne Empire in the Age of the Oceanic Discoveries, 1453 - 1525.” The American Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 7, Dec 1970, pp. 1892 - 1919.
Libby, Lester J. Venetian Views of the Ottoman Empire from the Peace of 1503 to the War of Cyprus.” The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 9, no. 4, Winter 1978, pp. 103 - 126.
Martin, Colin and Geoffrey Parker. The Spanish Armada. Norton, 1988.
Soucek, Svatopluk. “Naval Aspects of the Ottoman Conquests of Rhodes, Cyprus and Crete.” Studia Islamica, no. 98/99, 2004, pp. 219 - 261
White, Joshua M. “Holy Warriors, Rebels, and Thieves: Defining Maritime Violence in the Ottoman Mediterranean.” Piracy in World History. Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
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This episode was released as a Patreon-exclusive bonus episode in May 2023 as the conclusion to our Spanish Armada series - now it's been unlocked for everyone in anticipation of our next main episode when we'll be returning to the 16th century and maybe even revisiting some old friends.
Sources for Part V:
Brown, Meaghan J. “‘The Heart of All Sorts of People Were Enflamed’: Manipulating Readers of Spanish Armada News.” Book History, vol. 17, 2014, pp. 94 - 116.
Esler, Anthony. “Robert Greene and the Spanish Armada.” ELH, vo. 32, no. 3, Sep 1965, pp. 312 - 332.
Howarth, David. The Voyage of the Armada. Penguin, 1982.
Jensen, De Lamar. “The Spanish Armada: The Worst-Kept Secret in Europe.” The Sixteenth Century Journal, vo. 19, no. 4, Winter 1988, pp. 621 - 641.
Martin, Colin and Geoffrey Parker. The Spanish Armada. Norton, 1988.
McAleer, John J. “Ballads on the Spanish Armada.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 4, no. 4, Winter 1963, pp. 602 - 612.
Thompson, I. A. A. “The Appointment of The Duke of Medina Sidonia to the Command of the Spanish Armada.” The Historical Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, 1969, pp. 197 - 216.
Younger, Neil. “If the Armada Had Landed: A Reappraisal of England’s Defences in 1588.” History, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 328 - 354.
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This is a teaser containing the first few minutes of our March 2024 Bonus Episode released for patrons at the $5 (2nd Mate) Tier
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Many people are familiar with the RMS Carpathia as the vessel that picked up hundreds of Titanic survivors in the early morning of April 15th 1912. In this episode we discuss that monumental event in the Carpathia's history, in addition to what came before and after.
Sources:
"Arthur Henry Rostron: Captain of the RMS Carpathia." Encyclopedia Titanica. https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/carpathia-crew/arthur-henry-rostron.html
"Carpathia 1903." Tyne Built Ships, https://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/C-Ships/carpathia1903.html
"Carpathia 1903 - 1918." The Great Ocean Liners. https://web.archive.org/web/20170919232439/http://www.thegreatoceanliners.com/carpathia.html
"Carpathia Sunk; 5 Of Crew Killed." New York Times, 20 July 1918. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/07/20/98269248.pdf
"Wreck of the Carpathia, Titanic's Rescuer, Found." Reuters Limited, 2000. https://web.archive.org/web/20040427023807/http://www.numa.net/press/092200a.html
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Something different this week as we look into maritime folklore related to predicting (and maybe even altering) the weather.
we get into the lore at about 11:20
(for fans of the Loremen - yes, it's Christ-In-A-Hole!)
Sources:
Beck, Horace. Folklore and the Sea. Mystic Seaport, 1996.
Hole, Christina. "Superstitions and Beliefs of the Sea." Folklore, vol. 78, no. 3, Autumn 1967, pp. 184 - 189.
Minard, Antone. "'Like a Dying Duck in a Thunderstorm': Complex Weather Systems through the Lens of Folk Belief and Language." Western Folklore, vol. 69, no. 1, Winter 2010, pp. 109 - 119.
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In this episode we go back to the early days of RORO ferries for the tale of the MV Princess Victoria, lost on a crossing of the Irish Sea's North Channel in January 1953.
Sources:
Bibby, Miriam. "The Loss of the Princess Victoria." Historic UK. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Loss-Of-Princess-Victoria-Ferry/
Cameron, Stephen. Death in the North Channel: The Loss of the Princess Victoria, January 1953.
Jackson, John. “The Loss of MV Princess Victoria.” North Irish Roots, vol. 14, no. 1, 2003, pp. 6 - 12.
Scannell, James. “The Loss of the MV Princess Victoria - January 1953.” Dublin Historical Record, vol. 66, no. 1-2, Spring/Autumn 2013, pp. 33 - 46.
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Though recorded in July it's technically supposed to be our June 2023 bonus episode - a discussion of an alternate route to freedom for those enslaved in the coastal regions of the American South. And our much-anticipated dive into John C. Calhoun's global race-war fantasy.
this episode was originally published in July 2023. We made some minor edits and clean-ups for release on the main feed
Sources:
Bolster, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks: African-American Seamen in the Age of Sail. Harvard University Press, 1997.
Winsboro, Irvin D.S. and Joe Knetsch. "Florida Slaves, the 'Saltwater Railroad' to the Bahamas, and Anglo-American Diplomacy." The Journal of Southern History, vo. 79, no. 1, February 2013, pp. 51 - 78.
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This is the story of a ship - the USS Princeton - but it's also the story of Robert F. Stockton and his most precious brainchild - a 12-inch wrought iron naval gun affectionately nicknamed 'Peacemaker'
Invite your friends, invite your co-workers, hell invite the President!
Sources:
Duke, Marvin L. “Robert F. Stockton Early U.S. Naval Activities in Africa.” Naval War College Review, vol. 24, no. 9, May 1972, pp. 86 - 94.
O’Connell, J. Harlin. “The U.S.S. Princeton.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 1, no. 4, June 1940, pp. 12 - 15.
Pearson, Lee M. “The ‘Princeton’ and the ‘Peacemaker’: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Naval Research and Development Procedures.” Technology and Culture, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring 1966, pp. 163 - 183.
Shomette, Donald G. Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake: Maritime Disasters on Chesapeake Bay and Its Tributaries, 1608 - 1978. Tidewater, 1982.
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You've heard of Neo-Confederates, but what about Nepo-Confederates.
Here's the story of the USS Underwriter and her loss during a Confederate attempt to re-capture New Bern, NC in February 1864.
Sources:
Coddington, Ronald S. "Civil War Sailors: From the Collections Of Our Readers." Military Images, vol. 30, no. 3, Nov - Dec 2008, pp. 25 - 37.
Duppstadt, Andrew. "USS Underwriter." North Carolina History Project, 2016. https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/uss-underwriter/
Green, John B. "The Underwriter rises from the deep." The Kellenberger Room, 21 Mar 2015. https://kellenbergerroom.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-underwriter-rises-from-deep.html
Powles, James M. "John Taylor Wood, Hero of the Confederacy." June 2004, https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/john-taylor-wood-hero-of-the-confederate-navy/
Sullivan, David L. "The Few, the Forgotten: The Confederate States Marines." Military Images, vol. 3, no. 3, Nov - Dec 1981, pp. 16 -21.
"Underwriter I (Side-wheel Gunboat)." Naval History and Heritage Command, 20 Apr 2018. https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/u/underwriter-i.html
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In our third episode of Season Four we tell the story of the Volga River cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov, and her fatal run-in with the Imperial Bridge at Ulyanovsk in June 1983.
a very small part of conversation was cut when Tanner was talking about The Others of Edenwell by Verity Holloway. The missing portion was something like 'books that are set during WWI but not in the trenches on the Western Front'
Sources:
Жуковскуй, Иван. "'Сверху сплошным потоком лилась кровь': 40 лет жуткой катастрофе на теплоходе Александр Суворов." Газета.ru, 5 June 2023. https://www.gazeta.ru/science/2023/06/05/17091698.shtml?updated
Лысенко, Яков. "Смертельный круизЬ крушение советского Титаника." Газета.ru, 5 June 2018. https://m.gazeta.ru/social/2018/06/04/11786569.shtml
Николаева, Екатерина. "Тайна крупнейшей речной катастрофы в СССР: как лайнер Александр Суворов на полном ходу врезался в мост." Tech Insider, 31 Aug 2023. https://www.techinsider.ru/popmem/1610813-taina-krupneishei-rechnoi-katastrofy-v-sssr-kak-teplohod-aleksandr-suvorov-na-polnoi-skorosti-vrezalsya-v-most/
"Трагедия теплохода Александр Суворов." Mil. Press Flot, https://flot.com/news/dayinhistory/?ELEMENT_ID=1559
Шишкин, Олег. "Почему четверть века назад погибли пассажиры теплохода Александр Суворов?" Первый Канал, 5 June 2008. https://www.1tv.ru/news/2008-06-05/190340-pochemu_chetvert_veka_nazad_pogibli_passazhiry_teplohoda_aleksandr_suvorov
Fade out music: Вечная память (Eternal Memory) from Pavel Chesnokov's Requiem No. 2, Op.39 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-kpytNA-0
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In May 1944, during the buildup to Operation Forager, another shocking disaster rocked Pearl Harbor.
Sources:
Barger, Mel. "LST Memories: The Second Pearl Harbor Disaster." LST Scuttlebutt: The Official Website of the United States LST Association. https://www.uslst.org/memories/27-articles/17-lst-memories-the-second-pearl-harbor-disaster
Oral history of the experience of Paul E. Cooper, “Farm Boy from Oklahoma,” in Saipan: Oral Histories of the Pacific War, compiled and edited by Bruce M. Petty (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002), 105.
"Pearl Harbor Ablaze Again: The West Loch Disaster, 21 May 1944." Naval History and Heritage Command. https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1944/west-loch.html
Samuel Eliot Morison, History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II, vol. 8: New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944 to August 1944 (Boston: Little, Brown (1953), 171.
Footage of the West Loch Disaster
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To kick off Season Four we are telling the story of the destroyer USS Reuben James, the first US Navy loss of the Second World War.
Sources:
Benson, Olver. “The Changing Patterns of the War.” Current History, vol. 1, no. 4, Dec 1941, pp. 297 - 302.
Blower, Brooke. “From Isolationism to Neutrality.” Diplomatic History, vo. 38, no. 2, Apr 2014, pp. 345 - 376.
Guerlac, Henry and Marie Boas. “The Radar War Against the U-Boat.” Military Affairs, vol. 14, no. 2, Summer 1950, pp. 99 - 111.
Kaufman, Will. “Woody Guthrie’s ‘Union War.’” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, vol. 16, no. ½, Spring-Fall 2010, pp. 109 - 124.
Norton, Douglas M. “The Open Secret: The U.S. Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic April - December 1941.” Naval War College Review, vol. 26, no. 4, Jan-Feb 1974, pp. 63 - 83.
“Outbreaks of Food Poisoning Recently Reported in the Navy.” Public Health Reports (1896 - 1970), vol. 42, no. 18, 6 May 1927, pp. 1254 - 1256.
Schuessler, John M. “The Deception Dividend: FDR’s Undeclared War.” International Security, vol. 34, no. 4, Spring 2010, pp. 133 - 165.
Wright, Quincy. “The Lend-Lease Bill and International Law.” The American Journal of International Law, vol. 35, no. 2, Apr 1941, pp. 305 - 314.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/neutrality-acts
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This is Part Two of the tale of the Mavi Marmara and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla of 2010. This part of the episode details the raid itself, the aftermath, and where the flotilla fits in the long story of Palestine.
This will also serve as the main feed finale for Season Three of the show. We will be back in the new year with a brand new season of old favorites, new fixations, and everything in between.
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Outro Music: Mohammed Assaf - Dammi Falastini (محمد عساف - دمي فلسطيني)
Sources:
Bayoumi, Moustafa. Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict. Haymarket Books, 2010.
Bisharat, George, Carey James, and Rose Mishaan. “Freedom Thwarted: Israel’s Illegal Attack on the Gaza Flotilla.” Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern & Islamic Law, vol. 79, 2011.
Berkowitz, Peter. “The Gaza Flotilla and International Law.” The Hoover Institution, 1 Aug 2011. https://www.hoover.org/research/gaza-flotilla-and-international-law.
De Jong, Anne. “The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Human Rights, Activism, and Academic Neutrality.” Social Movement Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, April 2012, pp. 193 - 209.
Neureiter, Michael. “Sources of media bias in coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid in German, British, and US newspapers.” Israel Affairs, vol. 23, no. 1, 2017, pp. 66 - 86.
“Palestine Our Route - Humanitarian Aid Our Load: Flotilla Campaign Summary Report.” The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief. https://web.archive.org/web/20110727065115/http://www.ihh.org.tr/uploads/2010/insaniyardim-filosu-ozet-raporu_en.pdf
“Report of the international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, resulting from the Israeli attacks on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid.” United National General Assembly - Human Rights Council, 15th Session.
Steinberg, Philip E. “The Deepwater Horizon, the Mavi Marmara, and the dynamic zonation of ocean space.” The Geographic Journal, vol. 177, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 12 - 16.
Wajner, Daniel F. “‘Battling’ for Legitimacy: Analyzing Performative Contests in the Gaza Flotilla Paradigmatic Case.” International Studies Quarterly, vol. 63, 2019, pp. 1035 - 1050.
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In this two-part episode we discuss the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which was raided by Israeli forces resulting in the deaths of multiple participants.
Part One looks at the history and context in which the Freedom Flotillas occurred, and leads into the raid itself.
Part Two will deal with the details of the raid in the early morning of May 31st, 2010 and the aftermath of the attack, including the international response and connection to the current Israeli assault on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Sources:
Bayoumi, Moustafa. Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict. Haymarket Books, 2010.
Bisharat, George, Carey James, and Rose Mishaan. “Freedom Thwarted: Israel’s Illegal Attack on the Gaza Flotilla.” Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern & Islamic Law, vol. 79, 2011.
De Jong, Anne. “The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Human Rights, Activism, and Academic Neutrality.” Social Movement Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, April 2012, pp. 193 - 209.
“Palestine Our Route - Humanitarian Aid Our Load: Flotilla Campaign Summary Report.” The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief. https://web.archive.org/web/20110727065115/http://www.ihh.org.tr/uploads/2010/insaniyardim-filosu-ozet-raporu_en.pdf
“Report of the international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, resulting from the Israeli attacks on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid.” United National General Assembly - Human Rights Council, 15th Session.
https://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/12session/A-HRC-12-48.pdf
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this episode was originally released a Patreon-exclusive bonus episode in December 2022
Here is an extra special Patreon bonus episode wrapping up our discussion of the Lusitania. We talk about the legal aspects of Britain's blockade and the German U-boat campaign, the Lusitania Riots of 1915, and cover a few other bits of miscellanea.
Thanks so much for supporting the show, and we look forward to bringing you more next season.
Sources:
Dedering, Tilman. “‘Avenge the Lusitania’: The Anti-German Riots in South Africa in 1915. Immigrants & Minorities, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 256 - 288.
Gullace, Nicoletta E. “Friends, Aliens, and Enemies: Fictive Communities and the Lusitania Riots of 195.” Journal of Social History, Winter 2005, pp. 345 - 363.
Nelson, Robert J. and Christopher Waters. “Slow or Spectacular Death: Reconsidering the Legal History of Blockade and Submarines in World War I.” University of Toronto Law Journal, vol. 69, no. 4, Fall 2019, pp. 473 - 496
Thompson, Paul. “The Lusitania Riots in Pietermaritzburg 13-14 May 1915.” War & Society, vol. 36, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-30
Watts, Jarica. “Submerged By Fear.” Conradiana, vol. 49, no. 1, 2017, pp. 17 - 42
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In the dying days of the Great War, the French navy commissioned 12 Navarin-class minesweepers, to be constructed in Canada under the direction of Wisconsin's Manitowoc Shipbuilding.
Three of these minesweepers - Inkerman, Cerisoles, and Sebastopol departed Fort William, Ontario on Novembers 23, 1918
Only one would be seen again.
Sources:
Stonehouse, Frederick. "Ils Sont Disparu! They Are Gone: The Baffling Fate of Inkerman & Cerisoles." Lake Superior Magazine, 12 Nov 2018. https://www.lakesuperior.com/the-lake/maritime/405-ils-sont-disparu/
"Two Trawlers Believed Lost on Great Lakes." Saskatoon Daily Star, 3 Dec 1918. https://www.newspapers.com/article/saskatoon-daily-star-two-trawlers-believ/127617031/
Wrecksite.eu - Cerisoles
Wrecksite.eu - Inkerman
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In March 1929, the US Coast Guard cutters Wolcott and Dexter pursued and subsequently sank the bootlegging schooner I'm Alone, touching off an international incident and legal battle that would outlast the Prohibition laws that led to it in the first place.
Sources:
The American Council on Addiction & Alcohol Problems
Hagen, Carrie. "The Coast Guard's Most Potent Weapon During Prohibition? Codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman." Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan 2015. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/coast-guards-most-potent-weapon-during-prohibition-codebreaker-elizebeth-friedman
"Prohibition: Legislating Alcohol in America." The National WWI Museum and Memorial. https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/prohibition
Ricci, Joseph A. "Use All Force!" Naval History Magazine, vol. 27, no. 3, May 2013
Saharay, H. and A. Pal. "Hot Pursuit in Self-Defence." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 3, no. 29, 20 July 1968, pp. 1145 - 1146
Skoglund, Nancy Galey. "The I'm Alone Case: A Tale from the Days of Prohibition." University of Rochester Library Bulletin, vol. 23, no. 3, Spring 1968
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This is the first installment of our Beyond the Breakers Book Club episodes. We hope to get one of these in each month. This episode is being released as the main episode this week, and if you like what you hear then subsequent book club episodes will be available on Patreon at the second mate ($5) tier.
Outro Music: This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, 'Jack Johnson'
Sources:
Berliner, Jonathan. “Jack London’s Socialistic Social Darwinism.” American Literary Realism, vol. 41, no. 1, Fall 2008, pp. 52 - 78.
Link, Eric Carl. “The Five Deaths of Wolf Larsen.” Studies in American Naturalism, vol. 5, no. 2, Winter 2010, pp. 151 - 163.
Link, Eric Carl. “Jack London, ‘The Sea-Wolf’, and the Natural History of Love.” Studies in American Naturalism, vol. 8, no. 2, Winter 2013, pp. 171 - 185.
Oliveri, Vinnie. “Sex, Gender, and Death in ‘The Sea-Wolf’. Pacific Coast Philology, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 99 - 115.
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It is once again Halloween and that means we have a round of spooky ship tales to share with you.
We've got:
- the USS North Carolina
- Deaths on Hallowe'en at Fort Niagara
- the spectral sailors of the oil tanker Watertown
- 'The Phantom of the Forrestal'
As we're sharing this episode with you, the genocide in Palestine continues, with upwards of 8,000 recorded deaths in Gaza and numbers entering the hundreds in the West Bank due to escalating settler violence. We encourage you to use any platform that you have at all to speak out and protest what is being done - especially our fellow American listeners. There has been an encouraging groundswell of support for the Palestinian cause and we have to keep it up to end the atrocities being committed against one of the most vulnerable groups of people on the planet.
Sources:
https://www.portcityparanormal.com/the-battleship-uss-north-carolina/
https://battleshipnc.com/ship-history/
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/north-carolina-iii.html
Winer, Richard. Ghost Ships: True Stories of Nautical Nightmares, Hauntings, and Disasters. Berkley, 2000.
Oh, Canada (Jazz)
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This is a bit of a chimera episode with welcoming Taylor back to the show, discussing some current events (including the St. Lawrence Seaway workers strike), and telling the tale of the MV Material Service.
if you just want pure unfiltered shipwreck action the story itself starts at 19:30
Sources:
Kohl, Chris. 100 Best Great Lakes Shipwrecks, Vol. II. Seawolf Communications, 1998.
Leathem Smith-Putnam Navigation Co. v. Osby et al. (1935)
"MV Material Service." wrecksite.eu
Patent US2335199A - Scraper for ship unloading apparatus
"Res ipsa loquitur." Cornell Law School.
Screening Level Risk Assessment Package: Material Service
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This is Part II of what became a two-part series on the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, with special guest host Nick Williams (@dolorousnick). It was not originally planned as such, so the break between episodes happens pretty abruptly.
Tanner's mic quality is not great in this episode, but it has been cleaned up as much as possible
a portion of this month's Patreon payout goes to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) https://www.map.org.uk/ - if you have the resources we urge you to give to one of several charities who are operating in impossible circumstances in Gaza under Israel's genocidal forced removal and bombing campaign.
^*an update - while donations will be important for the future, as of uploading on 10/20/23 Israel is still preventing any additional food, water, or supplies from entering the Gaza Strip; we urge listeners to continue sharing Palestinian voices and promoting liberation of Palestine in any way possible with whatever reach you may have.
sound bite is from The Whitest Kids U' Know - Lincoln (RIP Trevor)
Sources:
Chaffin, Tom. The H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy. Hill and Wang, 2010.
Kelln, Albert L. “Confederate Submarines.” The Virginia Magazine of HIstory and Biography, vol. 61, no. 3, July 1953, pp. 293 - 303.
Schneller, Robert J. “A Littoral Frustration: The Union Navy and the Siege of Charleston, 1863 - 1865.” Naval War College Review, vol. 49, no. 1, Winter 1996, pp. 38 - 60.
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Just a quick statement from us on the unfolding genocide in Gaza and what we feel are our responsibilities to speak out in opposition to a crime of historic magnitude.
If you are looking for easily accessible information on the history of the Palestine-Israel conflict, the Institute for Middle East Understanding has wonderful resources for doing so:
https://imeu.org/
This includes the podcast This Is Palestine, which provides a look into Palestine both through analysis of current events and history.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-palestine/id1509337661
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This is Part I of what became a two-part series on the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, with special guest host Nick Williams. It was not originally planned as such, so Part I ends somewhat abruptly.
Tanner's mic quality is not great in this episode, but it has been cleaned up as much as possible
***a portion of this month's Patreon payout goes to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) https://www.map.org.uk/ - if you have the resources we urge you to give to one of several charities who are operating in impossible circumstances in Gaza under Israel's genocidal forced removal and bombing campaign.
Sources:
Chaffin, Tom. The H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy. Hill and Wang, 2010.
Kelln, Albert L. “Confederate Submarines.” The Virginia Magazine of HIstory and Biography, vol. 61, no. 3, July 1953, pp. 293 - 303.
Schneller, Robert J. “A Littoral Frustration: The Union Navy and the Siege of Charleston, 1863 - 1865.” Naval War College Review, vol. 49, no. 1, Winter 1996, pp. 38 - 60.
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This is Part Two of Episode 115 covering the Spanish galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos (or, The Beeswax Wreck)
Be sure to check out Craig's YouTube channel!
https://www.youtube.com/@CraigAndes1
Sources referred to in Part 1:
Sources:
Borao Mateo, Jose Eugenio. “The arrival of the Spanish galleons in Manila from the Pacific Ocean and their departure along the Kuroshio stream (16th and 17th centuries).” Journal of Geographic Research, no. 47
La Follette, Cameron, Dennis Griffin, and Douglas Deur. “The Mountain of a Thousand Holes: Shipwreck Traditions and Treasure Hunting on Oregon’s North Coast.” Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 119, no. 2, Summer 2018, pp. 282 - 313.
La Follette, Cameron, Douglas Deur, and Esther González. “The Galleon’s Final Journey: Accounts of Ship, Crew, and Passengers in the Colonial Archives.” Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 119, no. 2, Summer 2018, pp. 210 - 249
Lévesque, Rodrigue. “The Odyssey of Captain Arriola and His Discovery of Marcus Island in 1694.” The Journal of Pacific History, vol. 32, no. 2, Dec 1997, pp. 229 - 233.
“The Myth of the Pacific Pirate Ship.” Drain the Oceans, Season 6, Episode 4, National Geographic, 2023.
Tremml, Birgit M. “The Global and the Local: Problematic Dynamics of the Triangular Trade in Early Modern Manila.” Journal of World History, vol. 23, no. 3, Sept 2012.
Williams, Scott S., Curt D. Peterson, Mitch Marken, and Richard Rogers. “The Beeswax Wreck of Nehalem: A Lost Manila Galleon.” Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 119, no. 2, Summer 2018, pp. 191 - 209.
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This was originally the October 2022 bonus episode, but is being released on main to fill the recording gap from Taylor's wedding/honeymoon. Enjoy!
In this bonus episode we delve into all the juicy drama - the backbiting, the snark, the controversy - that came after the American victory at the Battle of Lake Erie.
It's Oliver Perry vs. Jesse Elliott in a climactic battle for fame, glory, sweet medals, and the eternal gratitude of the nation. Who will emerge victorious?
Sources:
Altoff, Gerry T. "Oliver Hazard Perry and the Battle of Lake Erie." Michigan Historical Review, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 25 - 57.
Friedman, Lawrence J. and David Curtis Skaggs. "Jesse Duncan Elliott and the Battle of Lake Erie: The Issue of Mental Stability." Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 493 - 516.
Skaggs, David Curtis. "Aiming at the Truth: James Fenimore Cooper and the Battle of Lake Erie." The Journal of Military History, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 237- 255.
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In this third and final part of the story, we see the men of the whaleship Essex embark on a journey of thousands of miles in open whaleboats in the hope of reaching the safety of the South American coast.
Less than half of them will survive the ordeal, but for some their role in the story will continue even beyond death.
Sources:
Brantlinger, Patrick. “Missionaries and Cannibals in Nineteenth-century Fiji.” History and Anthropology, vol. 17, no. 1, 2006, pp. 21-38.
Heffernan, Thomas Farel. Stove By a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex. Wesleyan University Press, 1990.
Hernández Gutierrez, José María. "Traveling Anthropophagy: The Depiction of Cannibalism in Modern Travel Writing, 16th to 19th Centuries." The Journal of World History, vol. 30, no. 3, Sept 2019.
Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea. Penguin Books, 2000.
The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex: The True Story that Inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Warbler Classics, 2022.
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Part Two of our series on the whaleship Essex brings us from Nantucket all the way around Cape Horn to the Pacific whaling grounds, and the climactic showdown with 'the largest and most terrible of all created animals.'
Sources:
Dolin, Eric Jay. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. W.W Norton & Company, 2008.
Ellis, Richard. The Great Sperm Whale: A Natural History of the Ocean's Most Magnificent and Mysterious Creature. University Press of Kansas, 2011.
Heffernan, Thomas Farel. Stove By a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex. Wesleyan University Press, 1990.
Pappas, Stephanie. "Why Has a Group of Orcas Suddenly Started Attacking Boats?" Scientific American, 24 May 2023. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-has-a-group-of-orcas-suddenly-started-attacking-boats/
Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea. Penguin Books, 2000.
Philbrick, Nathaniel. "'Every Wave Is a Fortune': Nantucket Island and the Making of an American Icon." The New England Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 3, Sep 1993, pp. 434 - 447.
The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex: The True Story that Inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Warbler Classics, 2022.
Shoemaker, Nancy. "Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth." RCC Perspectives, no. 5 (New Histories of Pacific Whaling), 2019, pp. 17 - 22.
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This week begins our multi-part episode on the whaleship Essex, famously 'stove by a whale' in 1820, leading to an epic tale of survival, determination, and just a bit of cannibalism.
Part I focuses on the history of whaling industry in (first) Britain's American colonies and (then) the young United States, with special attention to the island of Nantucket.
Sources:
Bouk, Dan and D. Graham Burnett. "Knowledge of Leviathan: Charles W. Morgan Anatomizes His Whale." Journal of the Early Republic, Fall 2008, pp. 433 - 466.
Dolin, Eric Jay. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. W.W Norton & Company, 2008.
Ellis, Richard. The Great Sperm Whale: A Natural History of the Ocean's Most Magnificent and Mysterious Creature. University Press of Kansas, 2011.
Jacob, Karl. "Nantucket's Bid for Survival During the War of 1812." Nantucket Historical Association, 2023, https://nha.org/research/nantucket-history/history-topics/nantuckets-bid-for-survival-during-the-war-of-1812/
Lu, Donna. "Nearly 200 stranded pilot whales die on Tasmanian beach but dozens saved and returned to sea." The Guardian, 22 Sep 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/22/nearly-200-stranded-pilot-whales-die-on-tasmanian-beach
Michaels, Debra. "Lucretia Mott (1793 - 1880)". National Women's History Museum. https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/lucretia-mott
Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea. Penguin Books, 2000.
Philbrick, Nathaniel. "'Every Wave Is a Fortune': Nantucket Island and the Making of an American Icon." The New England Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 3, Sep 1993, pp. 434 - 447.
Shoemaker, Nancy. "Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth." RCC Perspectives, no. 5 (New Histories of Pacific Whaling), 2019, pp. 17 - 22.
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Kaylee (@kayleefabulous) is back this week to share a story from Duluth - the sinking of the whaleback Thomas Wilson after a collision with the George Hadley.
Kaylee's Duluth dive bar write-up: https://racketmn.com/best-dive-bars-duluth-mn
Sources:
Duluth Evening Herald, 29 Nov 1905.
Duluth Evening Herald, 7 Jun 1902.
Engman, Elmer. In the Belly of a Whale. Innerspace, 1988.
Stonehouse, Frederick. Haunted Lakes. Lake Superior Port Cities Inc., 1997.
Miller, Al. Tin Stackers: The History of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company. Wayne State University Press, 1999.
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this episode does contain some instances of language that would normally be edited out in the main feed, but has been kept in the episode to preserve the direct quotes reported in Casey's article
In the first of our planned monthly "current events" episodes, we discuss Susan Casey's Vanity Fair article on the Oceangate submersible incident from earlier this year.
Source:
Casey, Susan. "The Titan Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal." Vanity Fair, 17 Aug 2023. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/titan-submersible-implosion-warnings
Article is also posted on our Patreon (unlocked post) in PDF form
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This week we tell Part 1 of the tale of the Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos - alternatively referred to as 'The Beeswax Wreck' for reasons that will be made apparent.
This episode sets the background and historical context for Part Two, which will feature an interview with a special guest involved with the story of the wreck.
Sources:
Borao Mateo, Jose Eugenio. “The arrival of the Spanish galleons in Manila from the Pacific Ocean and their departure along the Kuroshio stream (16th and 17th centuries).” Journal of Geographic Research, no. 47
La Follette, Cameron, Dennis Griffin, and Douglas Deur. “The Mountain of a Thousand Holes: Shipwreck Traditions and Treasure Hunting on Oregon’s North Coast.” Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 119, no. 2, Summer 2018, pp. 282 - 313.
La Follette, Cameron, Douglas Deur, and Esther González. “The Galleon’s Final Journey: Accounts of Ship, Crew, and Passengers in the Colonial Archives.” Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 119, no. 2, Summer 2018, pp. 210 - 249
Lévesque, Rodrigue. “The Odyssey of Captain Arriola and His Discovery of Marcus Island in 1694.” The Journal of Pacific History, vol. 32, no. 2, Dec 1997, pp. 229 - 233.
“The Myth of the Pacific Pirate Ship.” Drain the Oceans, Season 6, Episode 4, National Geographic, 2023.
Tremml, Birgit M. “The Global and the Local: Problematic Dynamics of the Triangular Trade in Early Modern Manila.” Journal of World History, vol. 23, no. 3, Sept 2012.
Williams, Scott S., Curt D. Peterson, Mitch Marken, and Richard Rogers. “The Beeswax Wreck of Nehalem: A Lost Manila Galleon.” Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 119, no. 2, Summer 2018, pp. 191 - 209.
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No new story this week, so this is a chat about how the podcast has developed and where we plan to take it in the future. We're back next week with your standard programming.
Outro music is "Pique la baleine" as sung by the Dreadnoughts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTLqKV4q2n8
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For this week's episode we are back close to home for the tale of the steamer Phoenix, which burned off of Sheboygan WI in 1847, in what remains one of the worst tragedies on Lake Michigan.
The music at the end of the episode is 'Nader, mijn God, bij U' (Nearer, My God, To Thee) as performed by the Martin Mans Formation.
Sources:
Hilty, Maya. “Remains of the Phoenix, one of the Lake Michigan’s deadliest shipwrecks, discovered 175 years after sinking off Sheboygan’s shore.” Sheboygan Press, 21 Nov 2022.
“Phoenix (1845).” Wisconsin Shipwrecks. https://wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Vessel/Details/505
“Phoenix (Propeller), 17 Mar 1846.” Maritime History of the Great Lakes. https://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/details.asp?ID=30035&n=2
Thompson, Mark L. Graveyard of the Lakes. Wayne State University Press, 2000.
Van Eyck, William O. “The Story of the Propeller Phoenix.” The Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 7, no. 3, March 1924, pp. 281 - 300.
https://www.linkstothepast.com/marine/chapt36.php
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a small correction to the episode - the French painter Édouard Manet did not observe the battle off Cherbourg personally, but used eyewitness and press accounts to reconstruct the events for his painting The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama.
This week it's the story of the Confederate commerce raider Alabama, the terror of the US merchant fleet until she was turned into a marine archaeological site by the USS Kearsarge off of Cherbourg, France
Sources:
Ameur, Farid. "La guerre de Sécession au large de Cherbourg: La France impériale et l'affaire du CSS Alabama (juin 1864)." Relations Internationales, no. 150, Spring 2012, pp. 7 - 22.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Alabama Claims.
"CSS Alabama Wreck Site (1864): A Confederate Shipwreck in France." Naval History and Heritage Command, 2 Dec 2020. https://www.history.navy.mil/research/underwater-archaeology/sites-and-projects/ship-wrecksites/css-alabama.html
Langlois, Francis. "Neutralité, reconnaissance ou intervention." Diplomatie, no. 177, Sept-Oct 2022, pp. 91 - 95.
Roach, J. Ashley. "France Concedes United States has Title to CSS Alabama." The American Journal of International Law, vol. 85, no. 2, Apr 1991, pp. 381 - 383.
Symonds, Craig. "Kearsarge and Alabama: The Civil War’s Classic Ship-to-Ship Duel." American Battlefield Trust. battlefields.org/learn/articles/kearsarge-and-alabama
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We're back in the Galveston area to discuss a very recent incident involving the fishing vessel Pappy's Pride and the chemical tanker Bow Fortune
Sources:
NTSB Report - Collision Between Tanker Bow Fortune and Fishing Vessel Pappy’s Pride
Heath, Keri. "Pappy's Pride salvage continues, families file claims." The Daily News, 30 Jan 2020. https://www.galvnews.com/news/article_66b30e27-1479-514b-8d59-1f294ef303f4.html
"Incident with Bow Fortune in Galveston, Texas." Odfjell, 2 Feb 2020. https://www.odfjell.com/about/our-stories/incident-with-bow-fortune-in-galveston-texas/
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In this, one of our absolute favorite bonus episodes (originally released for patrons in September 2022), we discuss the brief but eventful life of the Pensacola lumber schooner Richard A. Bingham.
Sources:
Heier, Jan Richard. "The Development of American Ship-Accounting Practices to 1900: A Comparative Study of Three Vessels." The Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 26, no. 1, June 1999, pp. 27 - 52.
Heier, Jan Richard. "The Short Life of the Richard A. Bingham: A Pensacola Lumber Schooner." The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 79, no. 2, Fall 2000, pp. 137 - 158.
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This week we have a WWI story in the Mediterranean with the sinking of HMT Aragon off of Alexandria.
Sources:
"100 Years Ago." Posted by fredarth09, 01 June 2014. https://fredarth.wordpress.com/tag/hmt-aragon/
"Aragon." The Yard, http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=367
"Chaplain recalls torpedoed ship drama." The Luton New, 31 Jan 1918. http://www.worldwar1luton.com/blog-entry/chaplain-recalls-torpedoed-ships-drama
"The British Ship HMT Aragon." The University of Newcastle, https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/101374?keywords=
"The Forgotten Ally: Japanese escorts in the First World War." https://thewellingtontrust.wordpress.com/
"The sinking of the S.S. Aragon, 30th December 1917." The Bedfordshire Regiment in the Great War, http://bedfordregiment.org.uk/5thbn/ssaragon.html
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This week it's the tale of the stern trawler Gaul, and the mystery of her 1974 sinking in the Barents Sea fishing grounds, leading to a decades-long search for answers.
Sources:
Dispatches - "Secrets of the Gaul." 1997. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=secrets+of+the+gaul
Re-opened Formal Investigation Report 2004
"Sinking of stern trawler Gaul with loss of 36 lives." Marine Accident Investigation Branch, April 1999. https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/sinking-of-stern-trawler-gaul-in-the-barents-sea-with-loss-of-36-lives
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This week we go back to a place near and dear to us - Scapa Flow - for the story of the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak.
Sources:
Gorbahn, Katja. "Perpetrators, victims, heroes – the Second World War and National
Socialism in Danish history magazines." Commercialised History: Popular History Magazines in Europe.
"Korvettenkapitän Günther Prien." uboat.net. https://uboat.net/men/prien.htm
Mason, Geoffrey B. "HMS Royal Oak, British battleship, WW2." Service Histories of Royal Navy Warships in World War 2.2008. http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-01BB-Royal%20Oak.htm
Ritzel, Fred. "Das kann doch einen Seemann nicht erschüttern! Über ein Lied aus der Zeit des Kriegsanfangs, seine mediale Präsentation und seine Nachwirkungen." Lied und populäre Kultur, 2014, pp. 143 - 169.
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As we're in a new location this week, there's a good deal of background in this episode leading up to the sinking of the ferry Sinar Bangun on Lake Toba (Sumatra, Indonesia) in June 2018. This episode is being released just before the five-year anniversary of the incident.
**KM = Kapal Motor (Motor Vessel), equivalent to MV designation in English
Sources:
Bakkara, Binsar and Niniek Karmini. "Divers search Indonesian lake for 192 missing after sinking." AP News, 20 June 2018. https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-ap-top-news-sumatra-international-news-asia-pacific-e06826d999954aad9050ef96bca72e41
"BASARNAS, continuing to improve." Asia Corporate News Network, 11 July 2018. https://www.acnnewswire.com/press-release/english/44710/basarnas,-continuing-to-improve
Bowo, Ludfi Pratiwi, Masao Furusho, and Mohammad Arif Kurniawan. "A Causal Study of Indonesian Sinar Bangun Ferry Accident by HEART Methodology." Navigation, https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jinnavi/207/0/207_34/_pdf/-char/ja
Hutajulu, Rithaony. "Tourism's Impact on Toba Batak Ceremony." Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1995, pp. 639 - 655.
Jensen, Fergus. "Indonesians face daunting task to recover bodies from ferry sunk in crater lake." Reuters, 22 June 2018. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-indonesia-ferry-recovery-idUKKBN1JI1FM
"Overhaul maritime safety after Lake Toba tragedy: Indonesian President Joko Widodo." The Straits Times, 21 June 2018. https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/overhaul-maritime-safety-after-lake-toba-tragedy-indonesian-president-joko-widodo
Salim, Hanz Jimenez. "Jokowi Perintahkan Menhub Evaluasi Standar Keamanan Angkutan Penyeberangan." Liputan 6, 20 June 2018. https://www.liputan6.com/news/read/3564822/jokowi-perintahkan-menhub-evaluasi-standar-keamanan-angkutan-penyeberangan
"Ship Safety Standards Ignored on Lake Toba." Kompas, 6 July 2018. https://www.kompas.id/baca/english/2018/07/06/ship-safety-standards-ignored-on-lake-toba
Videos referenced:
Short news segment showing cell phone footage from the accident
About 11 minutes of cell phone footage showing the incident and immediate aftermath
Segment of the TV program Hitam Putih (Black and White) featuring an interview with Sinar Bangun survivor Hernando Lingga
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This week we travel back to the early days of steamers on the Great Lakes - Walk-In-The-Water. With the power of 73 horses and a little bit of a horned breeze, who knows what adventures we can have?
Sources:
Carroll, Francis M. "The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary along the Michigan Frontier, 1819-1827: The Boundary Commissions under Articles Six and Seven of the Treaty of Ghent." Michigan Historical Review, vol. 30 no. 2, Fall 2004, pp. 77 - 104.
Palmer, Mary A. Witherell. "The Wreck of the Walk-In-The-Water, Pioneer Steamboat on the Great Lakes." Communicated to the Buffalo Historical Society, 1865. https://www.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/documents/walkinthewater/default.asp?ID=c1
"Walk-In-The-Water." Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. https://case.edu/ech/articles/w/walk-water
"Walk-in-the-water (Steamboat), aground, 1 Nov 1821." Maritime History of the Great Lakes. https://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/details.asp?ID=47525
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this was originally released on the bonus feed for Patrons in July 2022; enjoy! And consider supporting the show on Patreon!
This is the second installment in our sporadic Dead Reckoning bonus series. This episode takes us to the haunted coast of Connecticut, where spirits are said to linger at New London Ledge Light and Penfield Reef.
Sources:
Blake, Kevin. "Lighthouse Symbolism in the American Landscape." FOCUS on Geography, Summer 2007, pp. 9 - 15.
Carter, Donald. Connecticut's Seaside Ghosts. Schiffer, 2008.
“Lighthouse Facts.” United States Lighthouse Society. https://uslhs.org/education/glossaries-facts-trivia/lighthouse-facts.
Miller, Allen S. “‘The Lighthouse Top I See’: Lighthouses as Instruments and Manifestations of State Building in the Early Republic.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 13 - 34.
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We make a return to Chile after about two years away to tell the tale of the steamship Cazador (the first such vessel to ever serve in the Chilean Navy).
We were previously in Chile for the story of the Angamos wayyyy back in Episode 14; give it another listen if you need a refresher!
Sources:
"A 163 años del naufragio del barco 'Vapor Cazador': Así fue la peor tragedia naval en Chile". Teletrece, 30 Jan 2019. https://www.t13.cl/noticia/nacional/Flotaban-cadaveres-de-mujeres-sosteniendo-a-sus-hijos-a-163-anos-de-la-peor-tragedia-naval-en-Chile
"Loss of a Steamer and 300 Lives." Lloyd's Weekly, London, 6 Apr 1856.
Sotomayor, Rafael "Num. IV. Notas Relativas al Naufragio del vapor Cazador." Memoria que el Ministro de Estado en el Departamento de Marina Presenta al Congreso Nacional de 1856.
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For this month's bonus episode we are discussing the 1984 film The Bounty starring Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson.
Apologies for the delay, but we hope you enjoy our burgeoning interest in sound effects.
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This week Taylor brings us the story of a vessel with a short but fascinating life - Cleopatra's Barge, which would later be renamed Ha'aheo o Hawai'i (Pride of Hawai'i) after being purchased by Kamehameha II for his personal use.
This episode opens with a longer banter session than normal as we shake off the chains of the Spanish Armada series
Sources:
Johnson, Paul Forsyth. "Do They Really Pay You To Do That?" Smithsonian Institution, Sept 1996. https://web.archive.org/web/20110604054435/http://americanhistory.si.edu/about/pubs/johnston2.pdf
Johnston, Paul Forsyth. "A Million Pounds of Sandalwood: The History of Cleopatra's Barge in Hawaii." The American Neptune,vol. 62, no. 1, 2002, pp. 5 - 45
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Here we wrap up the main sequence of the Spanish Armada story. As all hope of a rendezvous with Parma has been lost, Medina Sidonia has no choice but to bring his ships north around Scotland and Ireland, and then back on the long journey south back to Spain.
We bid farewell to Drake, Recalde, Frobisher, the Valdes cousins, and all of the other friends we've made along the way.
Sources:
Allingham, Hugh. "The Spanish Armada: A Spanish Captain's Experiences in Ulster in 1588: A Reminiscence (With Notes)." Ulster Journal of Archaeology, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 178 - 194.
Flanagan, Laurence. "The Irish Legacy of the Armada." Archaeology Ireland, vol. 2, no. 4, Winter 1988, pp. 145 - 149
Hanson, Neil. The Confident Hope of a Miracle. Knopf, 2003.
Howarth, David. The Voyage of the Armada. Penguin, 1982.
Jensen, De Lamar. “The Spanish Armada: The Worst-Kept Secret in Europe.” The Sixteenth Century Journal, vo. 19, no. 4, Winter 1988, pp. 621 - 641.
Kelleher, Connie. "La Trinidad Valencera - 1588 Spanish wreck: results of the Underwater Archaeology Unit's work at the site 2004-6." The Journal of Irish Archaeology, vol. 20, pp. 123 - 139.
Lowth, Cormac F. "Finds of the Spanish Armada." Dublin Historical Record, vol. 57, no. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 24 - 37.
Mackie J.D. "Scotland and the Spanish Armada." The Scottish Historical Review, vol. 12, no. 45, Oct 1914, pp. 1 - 23.
Martin, Colin and Geoffrey Parker. The Spanish Armada. Norton, 1988.
Mattingly, Garrett. The Armada. Houghton Mifflin, 1959.
Parker, Geoffrey. The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road: 1567- 1659 2nd Edition. Cambridge, 2004.
Thomas, Hugh. World Without End: Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire. Random House, 2014.
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In Part III of our Series on the Spanish Armada, it's showtime! We cover the engagements at Portland Bill, the Isle of Wight, and Gravelines. We discuss flyboats, fireships, and timebombs. We finally criticize our boy Medina Sidonia. This episode really has it all.
Sources:
Hanson, Neil. The Confident Hope of a Miracle. Knopf, 2003.
Howarth, David. The Voyage of the Armada. Penguin, 1982.
Martin, Colin and Geoffrey Parker. The Spanish Armada. Norton, 1988.
Mattingly, Garrett. The Armada. Houghton Mifflin, 1959.
Parker, Geoffrey. The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road: 1567- 1659 2nd Edition. Cambridge, 2004.
Thompson, I. A. A. “The Appointment of The Duke of Medina Sidonia to the Command of the Spanish Armada.” The Historical Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, 1969, pp. 197 - 216.
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this was originally released in April of 2022 as a bonus episode; now it's yours to enjoy on the main feed!
In this bonus episode for the month of April 2022 we are delving back into some maritime mysteries and folklore with a talk about the Carroll A. Deering and the tall tales of Alfred Bulltop Stormalong.
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Join us this week for Part Two of the Spanish Armada of 1588; the Armada sets sail, takes a break, sets sail again, and encounters the English fleet for the first time in the campaign.
Hanson, Neil. The Confident Hope of a Miracle. Knopf, 2003.
Howarth, David. The Voyage of the Armada. Penguin, 1982.
Mackie, J.D. "Scotland and the Spanish Armada." The Scottish Historical Review, vol. 12, no. 45, Oct 1914.
Martin, Colin and Geoffrey Parker. The Spanish Armada. Norton, 1988.
Parker, Geoffrey. The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road: 1567- 1659 2nd Edition. Cambridge, 2004.
Thomas, Hugh. World Without End: Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire. Random House, 2014.
Thompson, I. A. A. “The Appointment of The Duke of Medina Sidonia to the Command of the Spanish Armada.” The Historical Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, 1969, pp. 197 - 216.
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We embark on our next multi-part episode with Part 1, covering the background and planning phases of the Spanish Armada of 1588. This episode has everything! Politics! Logistics! Mutiny! Singed beards!... Typhus!
Sources:
Drelichman, Mauricio and Hans-Joachim Voth. “Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt and Default in the Age of Philip II.” The Economic Journal, vol. 121, no. 557, December 2011, pp. 1205 - 1227.
Hanson, Neil. The Confident Hope of a Miracle. Knopf, 2003.
Howarth, David. The Voyage of the Armada. Penguin, 1982.
Jensen, De Lamar. “The Spanish Armada: The Worst-Kept Secret in Europe.” The Sixteenth Century Journal, vo. 19, no. 4, Winter 1988, pp. 621 - 641.
Martin, Colin and Geoffrey Parker. The Spanish Armada. Norton, 1988.
Parker, Geoffrey. The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road: 1567- 1659 2nd Edition. Cambridge, 2004.
Thomas, Hugh. World Without End: Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire. Random House, 2014.
Thompson, I. A. A. “The Appointment of The Duke of Medina Sidonia to the Command of the Spanish Armada.” The Historical Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, 1969, pp. 197 - 216.
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This week it's back to just the lads again with the story of the sidewheeler Alaskan, sunk in May 1889 off of Cape Blanco.
Sources:
"The Alaskan Founders." New York Times, 17 May 1889. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1889/05/17/100961000.pdf
Anderson, Matthew. "SS Columbia - The Lost Ship Who Lit the World." Shipwreck World, 23 Oct 2016. https://www.shipwreckworld.com/articles/ss-columbia-the-first-electric-ship
"The Olympian and the Alaskan." The West Shore, 1 May 1884. https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/2012260361/1884-05-01/ed-1/seq-7/
Schultz, Duane. "Inconvenient Truth: A Daring Reporter Tells Abraham Lincoln What His Own Government Would Not." America's Civil War, Nov 2012, pp. 26 - 33.
"Villard, Henry. "1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Villard,_Henry
"Yaquina Head Lighthouse." Lighthouse Friends. https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=133
Villard, Henry. "Recollections of Lincoln." The Atlantic: 2012 Civil War Special, pp. 34 - 37.
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Alexia (@TitanicTalkline) is with us today to talk about White Star's previous worst disaster - the sinking of the SS Atlantic near Halifax in 1873.
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Sources:
Baber, Mark. "Capt Digby Murray." Encyclopedia Titanica, 1 Nov 2007. https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/community/threads/capt-digby-murray.25551/
"Captain's Statement." SS Atlantic History. www.ssatlantic.com/ssatlantic/history/?c=13
Groff, Meghan. "Remember This? The sinking of SS Atlantic on April 1, 1873." CityNews, 1 Apr 2019. https://halifax.citynews.ca/remember-this/remember-this-the-sinking-of-ss-atlantic-on-april-1-1873-1331345/
Kavin, Kim. "What Really Happened the Night the Atlantic Sank?" Soundings, 16 Feb 2022. https://www.soundingsonline.com/news/what-really-happened-the-night-the-ss-atlantic-sank
"SS Atlantic: A Captain's Fateful Decision." The Maritime Executive, 31 Mar 2016. https://maritime-executive.com/article/ss-atlantic-a-captains-fateful-decision
Turner, Timothy PD. "SS Atlantic (1870)." Titanic and Co. https://www.titanicandco.com/whitestarline/oceanicclass.html#atlantic
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We know there are audio issues with this episode (Tanner recorded with the wrong mic, among other things) but it has been cleaned up to the best of our abilities; we hope it doesn't distract too much from the excellent discussion we got to have!
This week it's Jaylan Salah (@jaylansalman) on the guest mic to discuss one of the most famous maritime incidents in US history - the 1989 grounding of the tanker Exxon Valdez and the subsequent oil spill that saw portions of the Alaskan coastline devastated with lasting negative effects.
Sources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20111101013817/http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/noaa_documents/NOAA_related_docs/oil_spills/marine_accident_report_1990.pdf
^NTSB report on the incident
Haycock, Stephen. “‘Fetched Up: Unlearned Lessons from the Exxon Valdez.” The Journal of American History, vol. 99, no. 1, June 2012, pp. 219 - 228.
Liszka, James. “Lesson from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.” Ethics & the Environment, vol. 15, no. 2, 2010.
Palinkas, Lawrence A. “A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Mental Health Impacts of Oil Spills: Lessons from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.” Psychiatry, vol. 73, no. 3, Fall 2012
Ritchie, Liesel Ashley. “Individual Stress, Collective Trauma, and Social Capital in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.” Sociological Inquiry, vol. 82, no. 2, May 2012, pp. 187 - 211.
Shaw, David G. “The Exxon Valdez Oil-spill: Ecological and Social Consequences.” Environment Conservation, vol. 19, no. 2, Autumn 1992, pp. 253 - 258.
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This week we're joined by Scott (@DuluthBoatKing) for the story of the SS Western Reserve, one of the early steel-hulled freighters on the Great Lakes, lost with only a single survivor in August 1892
Sources:
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[April Fool's Episode 2023]
This week we are in Chicago to discuss one of the greatest calamities to ever strike the Second City. It's the story of a bus, a band, a boat, and a bad decision. We dedicate this episode to the victims affected that day.
Special thanks to our sponsors and their dedicated spokespersons:
- Radway's Ready Relief for Pain (Kaylee)
- The Persian Lotion (Lucas)
- Wintersmith's Worm Candy (Taylor)
- Brokaw Brothers (Darcy)
- Humphrey Gas Radiants
- Rexall Blackberry Cordial
- Dr. Hamilton's Grand Restorative (Meagan)
- Whitwell's Volatile Aromatic Snuff (Tom)
- Dr. J. Bovee Dods' Imperial Wine Bitters
- Dr. Richau's Golden Remedies (Carlos)
Special thanks also to Alexia (in the role of Lynn LaPlante Allaway)
there's an Easter egg at the end if you want to hear us break 'character'
Sources:
"Band settles over sewage dumping." BBC, 30 Apr 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4501755.stm
"Bridge Grating Solutions." Ohio Gratings Inc., https://web.archive.org/web/20181228091848/http://ohiogratings.com/Content/pdfs/product/bridge_brochure.pdf
"Chicago's Little Lady." Chicago's First Lady Cruises. https://www.cruisechicago.com/assets/uploads/medium/pdf/Little%20Lady%202023.pdf
"Dave Matthews' Driver: I Dumped." Associated Press, 9 Mar 2005. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dave-matthews-driver-i-dumped/
"Dave Matthews Sued for Dumping on Chicago." The Smoking Gun. https://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/dave-matthews-sued-dumping-chicago
Johnson, Steve. "15 years after the Dave Matthews Band let loose over the Chicago River, we survey the damages and uncover a new victim." Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug 2019. https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-dave-matthews-band-poop-dump-15th-anniversary-0810-20190809-zkydjq5lvvcsjb2webjqgzhrae-story.html
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Our friend Paul returns to the pod to share the story of one of the world's most grueling yacht competitions - The Sydney To Hobart Race - and the deadly 1998 edition that claimed the lives of six competitors.
Paul is one of the hosts of the Emergency Traffic Podcast (@PodcastTraffic), which examines firefighter and paramedic line-of-duty deaths.
Sources:
Dugard, Martin. Knockdown: The Harrowing Account of a Yacht Race Turned Deadly. Pocket Books, 1999.
Mundle, Rob. Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race. McGraw-Hill, 1999.
van Kretschmar, Hugo. "Report of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race Review Committee." May 1999. http://www.equipped.com/sydney-hobart/Vol%2013%20Docs/Report%20Cover%20to%20Page%2086.pdf
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It's the return of an old foe - the duck boat - in this special episode featuring Philadelphia's Finest: Tom Pain (@tohickontpain) of Ten Thousand Losses (tenklossespod) - 'a sports podcast from a Philly, leftist, & pro-labor perspective.'
production credit to Tom for the sound effect idea after 'Ride the Ducks International LLC
Sources:
"Lawyer of victims in deadly Philadelphia duck boat crash calls for shutdown." WPVI Philadelphia, 20 July 2018. https://6abc.com/philadelphia-duck-boat-crash-ride-the-ducks-accident/3793040/
NTSB Report for the Incident
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This week we're headed north to the waters off of Greenland - it's the story of the Danish vessel Hans Hedtoft, lost on the return leg of her maiden voyage in January 1959.
Sources:
"Der Untergang der 'Hans Hedtoft.'" https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/c8fffd76f76cf314ade861efcfd56862/der-untergang-der-hans-hedtoft/index.html
"Hans Hedtoft." Britannica, 25 Jan 2023. www.britannica.com/biography/Hans-Hedtoft
"Hedtoft-Untergang: Drei Fragen." Der Spiegel, 10 Feb 1959. https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/drei-fragen-a-9b49710b-0002-0001-0000-000042624108
Kämpf, Thomas. "Untergang der Hans Hedtoft / OXKA I." Seefunknetz, 16 Sep 2000. http://www.seefunknetz.de/oxka.htm
Nielsen, Karen. "Vi synker nu." DR, 27 Jan 2009. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/vi-synker-nu
Stimming, Elisabeth. "Der Mann, der hörte wie die 'Hedtoft' sank." Hamburger Abendblatt, 30 Jan 1999. https://www.abendblatt.de/archiv/1999/article204573899/Der-Mann-der-hoerte-wie-die-Hedtoft-sank.html
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We're going a bit further up the Ohio this week to discuss the loss of the towboat Elizabeth M in January 2005.
Sources:
Clowdis, Charles W. and Natasha Horowitz. "The River Barge Still Plays a Role in U.S. Transportation." S&P Global, 4 June 2009, https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/mi/country-industry-forecasting.html?id=106593483
Frazier, Reid R. "Pilot details rescue of 2 from towboat." TribLive, 5 Feb 2005. https://archive.triblive.com/news/pilot-details-rescue-of-2-from-towboat/
U.S. Coast Guard report on the sinking of M/V Elizabeth M
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This week we are headed to the Queen City - Cincinnati, OH - to discuss the steamboat Moselle, whose explosive loss in 1838 spurred the US Congress to create the first federal legislation governing transportation safety.
Sources:
Aldrich, Mark. “Safe and Suitable Boilers: The Railroads, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Locomotive Safety, 1900 - 1945.” Railroad History, no. 171, 1994, pp. 23 - 44.
Burke, John G. “Bursting Boilers and the Federal Power.” Technology and Culture, vol. 7, no. 1, 1966.
Gelzer, Christian. "Speed is a Virtue: Travel in the Mid-Nineteenth Century United States." Technology's Stories: Past and Present, vol. 3, no. 2, 15 June 2015. https://www.technologystories.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Gelzer_Speed-is-a-Virtue.pdf
Hand, Greg. "From Bucktown to Vanceville: Cincinnati's Lost 19th Century Neighborhoods." Cincinnati Magazine, 20 Nov 2017. https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/citywiseblog/bucktown-vanceville-cincinnatis-lost-19th-century-neighborhoods/
Thomas, Christian. "For Profit and Glory: Steamboat Racing on the Inland Rivers." River History, 26 May 2021. https://www.howardsteamboatmuseum.org/river-history/for-profit-glory-steamboat-racing-inland-rivers/
Suess, Jeff. "Our history: Steamboat explosion led to federal regulations." The Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Mar 2018. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/03/14/our-history-steamboat-explosion-led-federal-regulations/403819002/
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This week we dip back into the fertile shipwreck soil of the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
Sources:
"Empire Gem." Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, https://monitor.noaa.gov/shipwrecks/empire_gem.html#:~:text=Today%2C%20Empire%20Gem%20rests%20at,lies%20broke%20in%20two%20pieces
Gentile, Gary. Popular Dive Guide Series: Shipwrecks of North Carolina from Diamond Shoals North. Gary Gentile Productions, 1993.
"Richard Zapp." U-boat.net, https://uboat.net/men/zapp.htm
"Type IX U-Boats." Naval Encyclopedia, 22 Dec 2019. https://naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/germany/type-ix-u-boats.php#:~:text=Type%20IX%2C%20the%20long%2Drange,coast%20and%20cruise%20well%20beyond
"U-505 (German Submarine)." National Historic Landmarks Project, https://web.archive.org/web/20120212012351/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2065&ResourceType=Structure
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This week we discuss the loss of the trawler Antares and the role played in her sinking by the Trafalgar-class submarine HMS Trenchant.Sources:
"Minister says no more action on Antares sinking." The Herald, 19 Oct 1992. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12584178.minister-says-no-more-action-on-antares-sinking/
"Report of the Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents into the collision between the Fishing Vessel Antares and HMS Trenchant with the loss of four lives on 22 November 1990." Marine Accident Investigation Branch, 15 Apr 1992. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/54c1127c40f0b6158d00001b/MAIBReport_AntaresHMSTrenchant-1992.pdf
"The Sinking of FV Antares." British Sea Fishing. https://britishseafishing.co.uk/the-sinking-of-fv-antares/
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This fourth episode of Dead Reckoning is a reading of "The Body on the Shore," as shared in Frederick Stonehouse's Haunted Lakes (1997), asking the age-old question of how much money your sanity is really worth.
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This week we have special guest Jamie (from Old Shipping Lines on YouTube) to discuss the sinking of the British liner SS Vestris in 1928.
Sources:
Berchtold, William E. "More Fodder for Photomaniacs." The North American Review, vol. 239, no. 1, January 1935, pp. 19-30.
Grace, Michael. "Disaster at Sea - SS Vestris" Cruising the Past, 21 Nov 2009. https://www.cruiselinehistory.com/disaster-at-sea-ss-vestris/
"Lamport & Holt's S.S. Vestris." 3 Feb 2012. www.bluestarline.org/lamports/vestris.html
Olivier, Clint. The Last Dance of the Vestris. 2013.
Shenna, Paddy. "The sinking of SS Vestris - the shipping disaster that time forgot." Liverpool Echo, 21 Oct 2013. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/nostalgia/evening-read-sinking-ss-vestris-6219504
Weiss, Holger. “Reopening Work Among Colonial Seamen.” A Global Radical Waterfront: The International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers and the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers, 1921 - 1937. Brill, 2021, pp. 161 - 179.
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This week we actually get a couple of shipwrecks for the price of one, in our discussion of the SS Northern Pacific, which served in both civilian and military capacities during her 7-year sailing career.
[sources - full list to come]
Gentile, Gary. Shipwrecks of Delaware and Maryland. Gary Gentile Productions, 1990.
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This week we're talking about the loss of the steamer R.G. Coburn in October 1871. Other sub-topics include the Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo Fire, the Chicago iron & steel industry, and the dazzling array of fonts in 1800s newspaper advertisements.
Sources:
Bensman, David and Mark R. Wilson. "Iron and Steel." Encyclopedia of Chicago, 2005. http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/653.html
"Coburn, R.G." Historical Collections of the Great Lakes, Bowling Green State University. https://greatlakes.bgsu.edu/item/434440
Donahue, James L. Steaming Through Smoke and Fire: True Stories of Shipwreck and Disaster on the Great Lakes. Thunder Bay Press, 1990.
Green, Russ. "Shipwreck Vignettes." Thunder Bay 2010: Cutting Edge Tech and the Hunt for Lake Huron's Lost Ships, NOAA Ocean Exploration, https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/10thunderbay/background/wrecks/wrecks.html
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This week we discuss the story of the steamship Metropolis, formerly known as the USS Stars And Stripes, which ran aground near Currituck, NC in 1878.
Sources:
Gentile, Gary. Shipwrecks of North Carolina from Hatteras Inlet South. G. Gentile Productions, 1992.
Tabb, Kip. "Beach wreckage revives mystery of the Metropolis." Outer Banks Voice, 14 Oct 2020. https://www.outerbanksvoice.com/2020/10/14/beach-wreckage-revives-the-mystery-of-the-metropolis/
"The Wreck of the Metropolis, 1878." NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, 2016, https://www.ncdcr.gov/blog/2016/01/31/wreck-metropolis-1878
Link to Ko-Fi as mentioned in the episode:
https://ko-fi.com/beyondthebreakers
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Welcome to Season Three of Beyond the Breakers!
We are starting the new year by talking about the 1982 sinking of the mobile offshore drilling unit Ocean Ranger in the Hibernia Field of the Grand Banks.
Sources:
Collier, Keith. "The Loss of the Ocean Ranger, 15 February 1982." Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage, October 2016. www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/economy/ocean-ranger.php
Dodd, Susan. The Ocean Ranger: Remaking the Promise of Oil. Fernwood Publishing, 2012
Heffernan, Mike. Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster. Creative Publishers, 2009.
Higgins, Jenny. "Response to the Ocean Ranger Disaster." Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage, August 2018. https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/ocean-ranger-disaster-response.php
Moore, Lisa. February. Black Cat, 2009.
Royal Commission on the Ocean Ranger Marine Disaster
USCG Marine Casualty Report - Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) Ocean Ranger
Further Reading:
Babaian, Sharon. "View of Evidence From a Disaster: The Ocean Ranger Collection at the Canada Science and Technology Musuem"
Dodd, Campbell, and Dalziel. "The Ocean Ranger Disaster taught us much but lack of action by governments, corporations still fails workers." Saltwire, 14 Feb 2022. https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/opinion/commentary-the-ocean-ranger-disaster-taught-us-much-but-lack-of-action-by-governments-corporations-still-fails-workers-100693052/
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This bonus episode is a discussion of the article "Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Folklore, Fraternity, and the Forecastle"
Source:
Rouleau, Brian J. "Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Folklore, Fraternity, and the Forecastle." Early American Studies, vol. 05, no. 01, Spring 2007, pp. 30-62
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This is the conclusion of our four part series on RMS Lusitania, meaning it is also the conclusion to Season Two of Beyond the Breakers. We discuss contemporary reactions to the sinking, the inquiry headed by Lord Mersey, and explanations about how this tragedy occurred in the way that it did.
Thank you for all the listens, the support, and the interactions on social media this season. We look forward to bringing you Season Three next year.
Sources:
“Atrocity and the Lusitania.” The Advocate of Peace, vol. 77, no. 6, June 1915, p. 129.
Beesly, Patrick (1982). Room 40: British Naval Intelligence, 1914–1918. Long Acre, London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Gullace, Nicoletta E. “Friends, Aliens, and Enemies: Fictive Communities and the Lusitania Riots of 195.” Journal of Social History, Winter 2005, pp. 345 - 363.
Hübner, Andreas. “A People of ‘Patriotic Hearts’: German-Americans, U.S. Neutrality, and the Building of an Inclusive Coalition in New Orleans, 1915.” Louisiana History, vol. 60, no. 3, 2019, pp. 261 - 288.
Larson, Erik. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Broadway Books, 2015.
“The Lusitania’s ‘Guns’. The New York Times Current History of the European War, vol. 2, no. 4, July 1915, pp. 623 - 631
Preston, Diana. Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy. Walker, 2002.
Stack, Liam. “The Lusitania Telegraph Has Been Recovered, but It May Not Solve Any Mysteries.” The New York Times, 3 Aug 2017.
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Here is Part Three of our season finale series - covering U-20's activities up until she encountered Lusitania, the sinking itself, passenger stories, and the evacuation of the vessel.
Sources:
Beesly, Patrick (1982). Room 40: British Naval Intelligence, 1914–1918. Long Acre, London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Butler, Daniel Allen. The Lusitania: The Life, Loss, and Legacy of an Ocean Legend. Stackpole Books, 2000.
Hoehling, A.A. and Mary Hoehling. The Last Voyage of the Lusitania. Madison Books, 1996.
Larson, Erik. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Broadway Books, 2015.
Preston, Diana. Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy. Walker, 2002.
https://www.rmslusitania.info/people/second-cabin/theodore-naish/
https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:91533#?c=&m=&s=&cv=6&xywh=-2036%2C-1%2C5606%2C2669
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In Part Two of our season finale, we discuss the history of RMS Lusitania, Cunard Line, the man who ultimately sank her, and the dedicated team of British intelligence personnel meticulously tracking the movement of German U-boats.
Sources:
Butler, Daniel Allen. The Lusitania: The Life, Loss, and Legacy of an Ocean Legend. Stackpole Books, 2000.
Hübner, Andreas. “A People of ‘Patriotic Hearts’: German-Americans, U.S. Neutrality, and the Building of an Inclusive Coalition in New Orleans, 1915.” Louisiana History, vol. 60, no. 3, 2019, pp. 261 - 288.
Larson, Erik. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Broadway Books, 2015.
“Lusitania Breaks All Records.” Scientific American, vol. 99, no. 9, 29 Aug 1908, p. 139
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This week we begin our three-part season finale, in which we'll discuss one of the most famous maritime calamities in history - the sinking of RMS Lusitania.
Sources for Part 1:
Butler, Daniel Allen. The Lusitania: The Life, Loss, and Legacy of an Ocean Legend. Stackpole Books, 2000.
Hübner, Andreas. “A People of ‘Patriotic Hearts’: German-Americans, U.S. Neutrality, and the Building of an Inclusive Coalition in New Orleans, 1915.” Louisiana History, vol. 60, no. 3, 2019, pp. 261 - 288.
Tucker, Robert W. “An Inner Circle of One: Woodrow Wilson and His Advisers.” The National Interest, no. 51, Spring 1998, pp. 3 - 26.
Watts, Jarica. “Submerged by Fear: The Politics of Wartime Hysteria in Conrad and Conan Doyle.” Conradians, vol. 49, no. 1, Spring 2017, pp. 17 - 42.
Reading:
Danger! And Other Stories (Project Gutenberg)
- a PDF of the reading will also be in a public Patreon post
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Here we wrap up our long discussion of prison ships and prison hulks in the British Empire.
Listen to Parts 1 and 2 if you haven't already! All three parts have now been unlocked for everyone on the main podcast feed.
Sources:
Forbes, Thomas R. "Coroners' Inquisitions on the Deaths of Prisoners in the Hulks at Portsmouth, England, in 1817 - 1827." Journal of the History of Medicine, July 1978, pp. 356 - 365
Foxhall, Katherine. "From Convicts to Colonists: The Health of Prisoners and the Voyage to Australia, 1823 - 1853." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vo. 39, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 1 - 19
Hobsbawm, E.J. and George Rudé. Captain Swing. Phoenix Press, 2001.
James, Jeff. "'Raising Sand, Soil and Gravel' - Pardon Refusers On-Board Prison Hulks (1776 - 1815)." Family & Community History, vol. 20/1, April 2017
Townsend, Norma and David Kent. "The Men of the Eleanor, 1831: A Case Study of the Hulks and Voyage to New South Wales." The Great Circle, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 109 - 119
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This week we're joined by special guest Ian to discuss the tale of the schooner barge Madeira and the harrowing survival story of her crew, featuring Olympian feats of strength and agility on the icy cliffs of Minnesota's North Shore.
Sources:
Hübner, Andreas. “A People of ‘Patriotic Hearts’: German-Americans, U.S. Neutrality, and the Building of an Inclusive Coalition in New Orleans, 1915.” Louisiana History, vol. 60, no. 3, 2019, pp. 261 - 288.
Wolff, Julius F. Lake Superior Shipwrecks. Lake Superior Port Cities, 1990.
Additional source material from Kathryn A. Martin Library, Minnesota Historical Society Collections, and the Duluth Public Library
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This week we discuss a fatal incident involving the cargo vessel Karina C while she was docked in Seville, Spain, on May 24th 2019. We discuss guidelines, precautions, and how they don't mean anything without a culture of safety on board.
Sources:
Marine Accident Investigation Branch. "Crush incident on general cargo vessel Karina C with loss of 1 life." https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5fbfaf60d3bf7f572e8cbf43/2020-18-Karina-C.pdf
Maritime Executive. "Report: Alcohol Contributed to Fatal Crushing Accident on Freighter." 27 Nov 2020. https://maritime-executive.com/article/report-alcohol-contributed-to-fatal-crushing-accident-on-freighter
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no main episode this week, but we're unlocking a bonus for you
The January 2022 bonus episode, a continuation of our Part 1 discussion prison hulks in the British empire.
Hosty, Kieran and Bridget Berry. "Convict Hulks." Sydney Living Museums. https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/stories/convict-hulks
McKay, Anna. "A Day in the Life: Convicts on board Prison Hulks." https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/10/10/a-day-in-the-life-convicts-on-board-prison-hulks/
Stavely-Wadham, Rose. "'Colleges of Villainy' - Life Onboard the Prison Hulks." The British Newspaper Archive, 31 Mar 2021. https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/03/31/life-onboard-a-prison-hulk/
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We're celebrating Halloween in style with some spooky stories of the Eastland, the Kamloops, and the ghosts of Maryland's Point Lookout. And we're joined by returning champion Kaylee!
Sources:
"Chicago Hauntings: The Ghosts of the Eastland." CBS Chicago, 26 Oct 2021. https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-hauntings-ghosts-eastland-disaster/
Coleman, Dorcas. "The Spirits of Point Lookout." Maryland Department of Natural Resources, https://dnr.maryland.gov/Pages/Spirits-of-Point-Lookout.aspx
Eastland Disaster Historical Society. https://eastlanddisaster.org/people/
Flavion, Gary. "Civil War Prison Camps: Suffering and Survival." American Battlefield Trust, https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/civil-war-prison-camps?ms=googlegrant&gclid=Cj0KCQjwwfiaBhC7ARIsAGvcPe7F4qhLTgFcOTMP7ddXg_Hp7I4EsOH4F4Ixss_zUU0r0RFYk53-kQUaAiZkEALw_wcBHiggins, David M. "Scariest stories of the Chesapeake Bay Region." The Southern Maryland Chronicle, 10 Oct 2018. https://southernmarylandchronicle.com/2018/10/10/scariest-stories-of-the-chesapeake-bay-region-part-5-point-lookout-state-park/
Newkirk, Greg. "Meet Old Whitey, the Preserved Corpse of the SS Kamloops, Lake Superior's Most Haunted Shipwreck." Week In Weird, 27 Nov 2016. https://weekinweird.com/2016/11/27/old-whitey-preserved-corpse-kamloops/
"Point Lookout: America's Most Haunted Lighthouse." Unexplained Cases, 21 Feb 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKY6arZH9v8
Taylor, Troy. "The Eastland Disaster." American Hauntings, 24 Jan 2016. http://troytaylorbooks.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-eastland-disaster.html
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This week we are excited and honored to be joined by Professor Karen Barton to further discuss the Senegalese RORO ferry Le Joola. Professor Barton has been an enormously important voice in sharing the story of Le Joola with an English-speaking audience on a wider scale and we are so grateful to her for spending some time answering our questions.
Sources:
Barton, Karen Samantha. Africa’s Joola Shipwreck: Causes and Consequences of a Humanitarian Disaster. Lexington Books, 2020.
Barton, Karen. "The Joola: The Geographical Dimensions of Africa's Greatest Shipwreck." Focus on Geography.
www.focusongeography.org/publications/articles/joola/index.html
^this is the interactive article referred to in the episode
Commission d'enquete technique sur les causes du naufrage du Joola. 4 Nov 2002. https://www.au-senegal.com/IMG/pdf/joola_041102.pdf
Peltier, Elian. "Deadlier Than The Titanic: A Ferry Set Out With About 1,900 Aboard. Only 64 Survived." New York Times, 25 Sept 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/25/world/africa/senegal-ferry-joola.html
^this article is also available in PDF form in a public post on Patreon
Additional Resources:
The Joola: Africa's Titanic (BBC documentary) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW84OZeXJog
"Report blames army for delay in Joola rescue." The New Humanitarian, 6 Nov 2002. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/35577/senegal-report-blames-army-delay-joola-rescue
Wiley, Pat. The Sinking of the MV Le Joola, Africa’s Titanic: True Story from One of the Worst Maritime Disasters in History. First Steps Publishing, 2013.
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This week we're on Lake Erie again to discuss the sinking of the wooden-hulled steam barge Margaret Olwill near Kelley's Island in 1899.
Don't miss Tanner's livestream appearance on OTD Canadian Military History (@OTDCanMilHis), discussing the Battle of Lake Erie from the War of 1812 - Tuesday, October 18th @ 7 PM Eastern Time.
Sources:
Boyer, Dwight. Ships and Men of the Great Lakes. 1977
Johnston, Laura. "New shipwreck of Margaret Olwill discovered in Lake Erie." Rock the Lake, 15 Mar 2018. https://www.rockthelake.com/buzz/2018/03/new-shipwreck-discovered-in-lake-erie/
"Margaret Olwill (+1899)." Wrecksite. https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?216342
Patch, David. "Long-sought ship that sank more than 100 years ago found in Lake Erie." Toledo Blade, 15 Mar 2018. https://www.toledoblade.com/State/2018/03/15/Ship-that-sank-more-than-100-years-ago-found-in-Lake-Erie.html
"Sacramento." Great Lakes Vessel History. https://www.greatlakesvesselhistory.com/histories-by-name/s/sacramento
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This week we discuss the sinking of the craft designated SIEV-221 at Christmas Island (Australia) on December 15 2010.
Sources:
Hope, Alastair Neil. "Inquest..." Coroner's Court of Western Australia, 23 Feb 2012. https://www.coronerscourt.wa.gov.au/_files/Christmas_Island_Findings.pdf
Needham, Kirsty. "Asylum boat deaths avoidable, coroner rules." Sydney Morning Herald, 24 Feb 2012. https://www.smh.com.au/national/asylum-boat-deaths-avoidable-coroner-rules-20120223-1tqt7.html
O'Brien, Natalie. "Dirty tricks aboard a doomed boat." Sydney Morning Herald, 21 May 2011. https://www.smh.com.au/national/dirty-tricks-aboard-a-doomed-boat-20110520-1ewi1.html
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This week we're on Lake Erie to discuss one of the Great Lakes' most enduring mysteries - the fate of the train ferry Marquette & Bessemer No. 2, lost in December 1909.
Sources:
Boyer, Dwight. Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes. Dodd, Mead, and Co. 1968.
"Captain Robert Rowan McLeod." History of the Great Lakes, https://www.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/GreatLakes/Documents/HGL2/default.asp?ID=s800
Feather, Carl E. "Still lost after all these years." Star Beacon, 27 May 2012. https://www.starbeacon.com/community/still-lost-after-all-these-years/article_afd3b3fe-63f3-5f20-989d-cc32ec3087b4.html
Johnston, Laura. "Phantom ship hides in Lake Erie." Cleveland.com, 05 Nov 2018. https://www.cleveland.com/news/erry-2018/11/e7fd7cda265617/phantom-ship-hides-in-lake-eri.html#incart_river_index
"The Marquette and Bessemer Dock and Navigation Company." Bessemer and Lake Erie Archives, https://blearchive.weebly.com/car-ferries.html
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This week we're joined by Brianna (@brinnabea), who's going to teach us a thing or two about weather on the Great Lakes and how it correlates with peak times for shipwrecks during the year.
Relevant charts, graphs, and slides will be posted to Patreon.
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In this episode, the Fabulous Breaker Boys answer listener questions and discuss the podcast up to this point.
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In this episode, Taylor is joined by Darcy to discuss the sinking of the charter fishing vessel Muff Diver on August 9th, 1987. This is a more lighthearted episode than we typically have, but still with lessons to be taken from the incident about disaster preparedness, communication, and the management of crew and passengers during a voyage.
Sources:
Gentile, Gary. Shipwrecks of Delaware and Maryland. Gary Gentile Productions, 1990.
"Market size of the fishing boat charter sector in the United States from 2010 to 2022." Statista.com, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1176833/fishing-boat-charter-industry-market-size-us/
Tatum, Tom. "Facing that sinking feeling." Daily Local News, 19 Aug 2021. https://www.dailylocal.com/2007/08/21/facing-that-sinking-feeling/
"Thomas Joseph Reilly." Tribute Archive. https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/21544139/Thomas-Joseph-Riley/Edgewater/Maryland/George-P-Kalas-Funeral-Home
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This week we discuss the sinking of the sailing yacht Ouzo in August 2006 with the loss of all her crew, most likely due to a collision or near-collision with the P & O ferry Pride of Bilbao.Sources:
"Candela." National Institute of Standards and Technology, 25 July 2019. https://www.nist.gov/si-redefinition/candela
de Castella, Tom. "Lost at sea." Financial Times, 22 Aug 2008. https://www.ft.com/content/5d5efaec-6d8d-11dd-857b-0000779fd18c
"Report on the investigation of the loss of the sailing yacht Ouzo and her three crew South of the Isle of Wight during the night of 20/21 August 2006." Marine Accident Investigation Branch, April 2007. https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/sinking-of-sailing-yacht-ouzo-after-encounter-with-ro-ro-passenger-ferry-pride-of-bilbao-off-isle-of-wight-england-with-loss-of-3-lives
"Yacht deaths trial clears seaman." BBC News Channel, 13 Dec 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7142272.stm
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In this episode we talk about the role of flatboats and keelboats on the American frontier in the 18th and 19th century, as well as the frontier character of the riverboat man, embodied in the semi-legendary figure of Mike Fink.
*Originally released as the November 2021 bonus episode; edited and re-uploaded to Patreon 3/29/22
Sources:
Allen, Michael. "Sired by a Hurricane: Mike Fink, Western Boatmen, and the Myth of the Alligator Horse." Arizona and the West, Autumn, 1985, 27:3 , pp. 237 - 252
"Keelboats and Flatboats." Warren County Historical Society
Spradlin, Derrick. "Mike Fink and Frontier Cosmopolitanism in Morgan Neville's The Last of the Boatmen." The Explicator, 2009, 67:4, pp. 243 - 246
Weiser-Alexander, Kathy. "Mike Fink - A Drunken Bully." Legends of America, 2020
Wilhelm, Gene. "Pioneer Boats and Transportation on the Upper James River." Pioneer America, Jan 1971, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 39 - 47.
Further reading:
Allen, Michael. "The Riverman as Jacksonian Man." Western Historical Quarterly, Aug 1990, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 305 - 320.
Bakken, Dawn E. "A Young Hoosier's Adventures on the Mississippi River." Indiana Magazine of History, March 2006, Vol. 102, No. 1, pp. 1 - 7.
Baldwin, Leland D. The Keelboat Age on Western Waters, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1941.
Mak, James and Gary M. Walton. "The Persistence of Old Technologies: The Case of Flatboats." The Journal of Economic History, Jun 1973, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 444 - 451.
Neville, Morgan. "The Last of the Boatmen." 1828.
Nichols, Roger L. "Army Contributions to River Transportation, 1818 - 1825." Military Affairs, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 242 - 249.
McGregor, John R. "Pioneer Industrial Complexes On The Lower Wabash." Material Culture, Fall 1992, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 19 - 34.
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In this episode we discuss not one ship, but several - the abandoned, rotting hulks embedded in the Delaware River known as 'the Dead Fleet.'
Sources:
McNulty, Bob. "Rediscovering the Dead Fleet of the Delaware River." Hidden City, 23 May 2017.
"U.S. Submarine Nautilus - 1931 North Pole Attempt." Explore North.
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Some info about the Beyond The Breakers Fantasy League we are kicking off this week if you want to have some good wholesome fun this Fall!
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This week we discuss the sinking of the Spanish vessel San Pedro de Alcantara, which ran aground on the Portuguese coast in 1786.
Sources:
Åkesson, Per. "San Pedro de Alcantara." 1999. https://www.abc.se/~m10354/mar/spa.htm
Baetjer, Katharine. "Jean Pillement: Shipwrecks and the Sublime." Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 51, 201, pp. 97 - 107
Blot, Jean-Yves. "Incas em Peniche." História de San Pedro de Alcantara. https://www.abc.se/~pa/mar/spa-histo.htm
^This source, from one of the lead investigators on the wreck site, has a lot of information that we were not able to fit into the episode. Worth the time to explore!
Grant, Jason R. "De Macrocarpaeae Grisebach (Ex Gentianaceis) Speciebus Novis II: Typification of the Ruiz and Pavon Names." Harvard Papers in Botany, vol. 7, no. 2, March 2003, pp. 423 - 436.
Russo, Jorge. "O San Pedro de Alcantara, 1786." 2003. https://nautarch.tamu.edu/shiplab/baleal-ship-sanpedro.htm
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This week we discuss the Australian steamer SS Waratah, lost off of the South African coast in July 1909.
Sources:
P & O Heritage." 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20110727011539/http://www.poheritage.com/
"SS Waratah (+1909)". wrecksite.eu, 21 Jan 2021. https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?11731
"Waratah." National Underwater and Marine Agency. https://numa.net/expeditions/waratah/
Wijnberg, Marion. "The Nautical Mystery of the SS Waratah." History Daily. https://historydaily.org/the-nautical-mystery-of-the-ss-waratah/5
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The first episode in the Dead Reckoning bonus series deals with the wreck of the Nottingham Galley in 1710 on the rocks at Boon Island off the coast of Maine. Stranded for weeks with no provisions, no way to build a fire, and no viable chance of escape, the men grew desperate.
So desperate, in fact, that the men of the Nottingham Galley turned to the bleakest of last resorts - cannibalism.
Originally released on Patreon May 30, 2022.
Sources
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Erickson, Stephen. "'To Obviate a Scandalous Reflection': Revisiting the Wreck of the Nottingham Galley." The New England Quarterly, vol. 83, no. 3, Sept 2010, pp. 375 - 412.
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Snow, Edward Rowe. Storms and Shipwrecks of New England. The Yankee Publishing Company, 1943.
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Warner, R.H. "Captain John Deane and the Wreck of the Nottingham Galley: A Study of History and Bibliography." The New England Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 1, March 1995, pp. 106 - 117.
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This week we're joined by Jamie from Old Shipping Lines to discuss the 1986 sinking of the Russian passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov.
Jamie's Channel - Old Shipping Lines
Sources:
Admiral Nakhimov: Save Our Souls. 2021. (Russian-language documentary)
Мамулашвили, Николай. "Хроника гибели пассажирского лайнера." Время новостей. 31 Авг. 2006. http://www.vremya.ru/print/159761.html
"Небывалая трагедия в море или судьба лайнера Адмирал Нахимов." 21 March 2010. http://korabley.net/news/nebyvalaja_tragedija_v_more_ili_sudba_lajnera_admiral_nakhimov_parokhod_berlin/2010-03-21-513
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This week we discuss the story of the MV Holoholo, a pleasure yacht-turned-oceanographic research vessel lost near the Hawaiian Islands in December 1978.
Sources:
Karl, David M., UH and the Sea, University of Hawaii Manoa, 2004.
"Marine Casualty Report - MV Holoholo; Disappearance in the Pacific Ocean on 11 December 1978 with presumed loss of life." U.S. Coast Guard, 1981.
Safety Recommendations - NTSB
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This week we discuss the November 1901 sinking of the steamboat San Rafael in San Francisco Bay.
Sources:
Barbier, Alan. "The Wreck of the Ferry San Rafael." Marin History Museum, December 1991. https://web.archive.org/web/20130207014515/http://www.marinhistory.org/article_FerryWreck.html
"Search for Steamer San Rafael." National Geographic, 21 May 2015. https://fieldnotes.nationalgeographic.org/expedition/insearchofsteamersanrafael
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This week we conclude our discussion of the Edmund Fitzgerald, with special returning guest Kaylee!
Topics include
- search efforts on the night of November 10, 1975
- modern analysis of the wind and wave conditions on the night of the sinking
- literature published about the Fitzgerald since 1977
- controversy and disagreements over investigations of the wreck
Sources and further reading:
Flesher, John. "Book Photo, Video of Crewman's Remains Angers Victims' Families." AP News, 3 Nov 1995. https://apnews.com/article/a2e00a029453cf06801b1c210655bacf
Hemming, Robert J. Gales of November. Contemporary Books, 1981.
Hultquist, Thomas R., Michael R. Dutter, and David J. Schwab. “Reexamination of the 9-10 November 1975 ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’ Storm Using Today’s Technology.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 87, no. 5, May 2006, pp. 607 - 622.
Justice, Jacqueline. “Classical Tragedy and the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Why the Legend Lives On.” The Journal of American Culture, vol. 36, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 88 - 98.
Kieselburg, James R. “Midwestern Images of Labor: Wisconsin Artists and Their Portrayal of Industry.” The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archaeology, vol. 34, no. 1-2, 2008, pp. 135 - 148.
Marine Casualty Report, United States Coast Guard. https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DCO%20Documents/5p/CG-5PC/INV/docs/boards/edmundfitz.pdf
Rafferty, Colin. “Surfacing.” Fourth Genre: Exploration in Nonfiction, vol. 12, no. 2, Fall 2010, pp. 17 - 26.
Schumacher, Michael. Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Schumacher, Michael. The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Eyewitness Accounts From the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings. University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Stonehouse, Frederick. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Avery Color Studios, 1996.
Thompson, Mark L. Graveyard of the Lakes. Wayne State University Press, 2004.
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This is Part 1 of a 2-part episode covering the most famous wreck in the history of the Great Lakes - the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.Sources and further reading:
Hemming, Robert J. Gales of November. Contemporary Books, 1981.
Justice, Jacqueline. “Classical Tragedy and the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Why the Legend Lives On.” The Journal of American Culture, vol. 36, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 88 - 98.
Marine Casualty Report, United States Coast Guard. https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DCO%20Documents/5p/CG-5PC/INV/docs/boards/edmundfitz.pdf
Schumacher, Michael. Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. University of Minnesota Press, 2012.Stonehouse, Frederick. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.Avery Color Studios, 1996.
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Unlocked bonus episode
In this episode, Katie and Tanner discuss the second fatal collision involving HMAS Melbourne, this one occurring in 1969 with the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans.
This episode was originally released as Patreon bonus content in July 2021 to coincide with Episode 24 (HMAS Voyager*)
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This week Josie (@jsspcr1) from A Hill To Die On (@ahilltodieonpod) / Australian Gothic (@ausgothicpod) joins us to discuss the 2007 grounding of the Pasha Bulker in Newcastle, Australia.
When you're done with this episode you have a lot more listening to do:
A Hill To Die On podcast
Australian Gothic podcast
This is the clean version of the episode; the uncensored and fully Australian version is available on Patreon
References and further reading:
Australian Transport Safety Bureau - Full Report
"A look back on the Pasha Bulker... ship happens"
"Everday hero, Glen Ramplin, talks about his life inside the rescue chopper"
"Huge operation starts to salvage ship"
"Pasha Bulker Storm" - Newcastle Herald"Pasha Bulker listed for sale on eBay"
"Surfing the Bulker break""Teams assess Pasha oil leak"
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This week we travel to Japan to discuss the misfortunes of the Spanish galleon San Felipe, stranded on the coast of Japan in 1596. The incident would be the catalyst for the persecution of Christians in Japan and a major contributing factor in the nation's isolationist foreign policy that lasted until the 19th century.
Sources:
Borao Mateo, Jose Eugenio. “The arrival of the Spanish galleons in Manila from the Pacific Ocean and their departure along the Kuroshio stream (16th and 17th centuries).” Journal of Geographic Research, no. 47
Brockey, Liam Matthew. “Books of Martyrs: Example and Imitation in Europe and Japan, 1597 - 1650.” The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 103, no. 2, Spring 2017.
Chaiklin, Martha. “Pre-modern Japan and the West.” University of Pittsburgh, https://japanpitt.pitt.edu/essays-and-articles/history/pre-modern-japan-and-west
Teather, Rhiannon A. “‘The Palme of Christian Fortitude’: Japan’s Kirishitan martyrs in seventeenth century records.” The University of Bristol, 2014
Tremml, Birgit M. “The Global and the Local: Problematic Dynamics of the Triangular Trade in Early Modern Manila.” Journal of World History, vol. 23, no. 3, Sept 2012.
Yukawa, Francisco Xavier P. Morio. “Catholicism in Japan.” Philippine Studies, vol. 6, no. 4, Nov 1958.
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This week we discuss the sinking of the lumber hooker SS Myron at Whitefish Point in November 1919.
Sources:
Classen, Mikel B. "Wreck of the SS Myron: Trial and Tragedy." Mikel B. Class On The Road. https://mikelbclassen.com/wreck-of-the-s-s-myron-trial-and-tragedy/
Gmiter, Tanda. "This Great Lakes shipwreck left sailors encased in ice until spring." MLive, 24 Nov 2017. https://www.mlive.com/news/2017/11/anniversary_of_great_lakes_shi.html
Sailors of the Steamer Myron Memorial - Mission Hill Cemetery - http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/tsphoto/chippewa/missionhill.htm
"SS Myron." Wrecksite, https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?159340
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This week we have a special guest host! Paul from the Emergency Traffic podcast joins us to discuss the luxury steamer SS Normandie and the fire that ultimately ended her career.
Sources/additional reading
Борисов, В. Юркевич Владимир Иванович.http://www.ihst.ru/projects/emigrants/jurkevich.htm
“The Chariot of Poseidon.” Google Arts & Culture.https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-chariot-of-poseidon-jean-th%C3%A9odore-dupas/UgFqjoJfW2P9eA?hl=enHinton, James. "The Sinking of the S.S. Normandie at NYC's Pier 88." New York Almanack, 23 Sept 2014. https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2014/09/the-sinking-of-the-s-s-normandie-at-nycs-pier-88/
Kim, Leena. “The Fabulous Interiors from the Iconic SS Normandie Are Now For Sale.” Town & Country, 30 Mar 2021.www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/travel-guide/a35853922/maison-gerard-ss-normandie-sale/
Pilosi, Lisa and Drew Anderson. “‘The Chariot of Poseidon’ by Jean Dupas and Jacques-Charles Champigneulle at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 56, 2014, pp. 219 - 228
“SS Normandie Fire.” The Fireboat Fire Fighter Museum, 2019.https://americasfireboat.org/history/ss-normandie-fire/
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As promised in the first of our three-part series on prison ships in the British Empire, Tanner read's Philip Freneau's poem "The British Prison Ship" in its entirety.
For context, you can also listen to the full episode (unlocked for everyone):
https://beyondthebreakers.buzzsprout.com/1657951/9777608-unlocked-december-bonus-prison-hulks-part-1
The version of the poem being read here is the final revised version (the original 1781 version was divided into four cantos instead of three).
*This was originally December 2021 bonus content to go along with the bonus episode
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We're excited to announce a new bonus series called Dead Reckoning - in this monthly series, we'll be focusing on some of the more ghastly, gruesome, and otherworldly elements of shipwreck lore. Each episode will begin with a reading, followed by discussion, expansion, and/or analysis.
This is a preview of our very first Dead Reckoning episode. Check out the Patreon to hear the whole thing, and to listen to all of our other bonus content!
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This week we visit the nation of Sénégal for the first time to discuss the sinking of Le Joola on September 26th, 2002.
Sources:
Barton, Karen. "The Joola: The Geographical Dimensions of Africa's Greatest Shipwreck." Focus on Geography.
www.focusongeography.org/publications/articles/joola/index.html
^this is the interactive article referred to in the episode
Commission d'enquete technique sur les causes du naufrage du Joola. 4 Nov 2002. https://www.au-senegal.com/IMG/pdf/joola_041102.pdf
"Report blames army for delay in Joola rescue." The New Humanitarian, 6 Nov 2002. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/35577/senegal-report-blames-army-delay-joola-rescue
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This week we return to the California coast to discuss the sinking of the SS Emidio in December 1941 by the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-17.
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This week we discuss the OMI Charger explosion that occurred at Bolivar Roads near Galveston, Texas on October 9th, 1993.
*There are some minor issues with the sound quality of Tanner's mic in this episode; reminds us of the old days.
Sources:
Butterworth Tank Cleaning Machines
"Investigation Into the Circumstances Surrounding the Explosion and Fire Aboard the Tankship OMI Charger..." United States Coast Guard, 6 Mar 1997.
"Lower and Upper Explosive Limits for Flammable Gases and Vapors."
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This week we discuss one of the worst maritime tragedies in the history of the West Coast of North America - the sinking of the paddle steamer Brother Jonathan in July of 1865.
Bonus content alert
There will be an additional 20ish-minute segment available on Patreon in which we discuss the legal battle surrounding the discovery and salvage of Brother Jonathan, a case which made it all the way up to the US Supreme Court
Sources:
Jones, John Paul. "Treasure Salvage and the United States Supreme Court: Issues Remaining After Brother Jonathan." University of Richmond Scholarship RepositoryLincoln, Mary Todd. "A Letter from Mary Todd Lincoln to Mrs. Anson G. Henry." Retrieved 2 May 2022 from rememberinglincoln.fords.org
Lomax, Alfred J. "Brother Jonathan: Pioneer Steamship of the Pacific Coast." Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 3, Sept 1959
Powers, Dennis. "Brother Jonathan." Oregon Encyclopedia, 24 Aug 2019.
"The S.S. Brother Jonathan." Del Norte County Historical Society
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This week we discuss the 1983 sinking of the SS Marine Electric, a pivotal moment in the history of ship safety and the US Coast Guard's rescue capabilities.
Intro/outro music clip: "The Mary Ellen Carter" - Stan Rogers (1979)
Sources:
"Marine Casualty Report - SS Marine Electric O.N. 245675, Capsize and Sinking in the Atlantic Ocean on 12 February 1983 with Multiple Loss of Life." U.S. Coast Guard.
"SS Marine Electric: The Ship That Changed The Coast Guard." gCaptain, 12 Feb 2019
Frump, Robert. Until the Sea Shall Free Them: Life, Death, and Survival in the Merchant Marine. 2002.
US Coast Guard Swimmer Rescue Program
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In this episode, we discuss the sailing yacht Cheeki Rafiki, lost with her four crew members in May 2014 after taking part in Antigua Sailing Week.
Many thanks to the crew of the Belafonte for suggesting this topic. You can follow them on Instagram @aboard_belafonte and check them out on YouTube
Sources:
Harries, John. "'Cheeki Rafiki' Report Misses An Opportunity To Make Boats Safer." Attainable Adventure Cruising.
MAIB Full Report on the Cheeki Rafiki"Yacht firm boss charged with manslaughter over Cheeki Rafiki deaths." The Guardian, 7 Oct 2016.
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This week we discuss the 1991 incident involving the cruise ship Oceanos in which the ship's entertainers stepped in to play a critical role in the safe evacuation of all aboard, while the captain and crew fell short of expectations.
Opening music is ‘Oceanos’ by the band Coast, off their self-titled first album
Click here to visit the website about the sinking run by Moss Hills. This is a great resource for first hand accounts and for pictures of the event.
Link to the BBC podcast Life Changing featuring Moss speaking about his experiences on the Oceanos. This is where I first heard this story.
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This is Part 2 of a 2-part series
In this episode we discuss one of the more well-known maritime disasters of the 20th century - the sinking of the cruiseferry Estonia in September 1994.
Part 2 covers some more specific details of the sinking and survivor accounts from some of those who managed to escape.
*This is the first episode recorded on our upgraded microphones. Thanks so much to our supporters on Patreon for making that possible!
Sources:
Joint Accident Investigation Commission of Estonia, Finland, and Sweden. "Final Report on the Capsizing On 28 September 1994 In the Baltic Sea of the RO-RO passenger vessel MV Estonia."
Joly, Josephine. "MS Estonia: New expedition confirms official accident report." Euronews, 18 Nov 2021.
Langewiesche, William. "A Sea Story." The Atlantic, May 2004.
^A PDF of this article is available in a public post on Patreon for those interested in reading.
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In this episode we discuss one of the more well-known maritime disasters of the 20th century - the sinking of the cruiseferry Estonia in September 1994.
This is Part 1 of a 2-part series.
*This is the first episode recorded on our upgraded microphones. Thanks so much to our supporters on Patreon for making that possible!
Wisconsin Books To Prisoners
Next For Autism
Sources:
Joint Accident Investigation Commission of Estonia, Finland, and Sweden. "Final Report on the Capsizing On 28 September 1994 In the Baltic Sea of the RO-RO passenger vessel MV Estonia."
Joly, Josephine. "MS Estonia: New expedition confirms official accident report." Euronews, 18 Nov 2021.
Langewiesche, William. "A Sea Story." The Atlantic, May 2004.
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This week Kaylee (@kayleefabulous) tells the story of the SS Benjamin Noble, a freighter that sank on its approach to Duluth during a storm in April 1914.
Kaylee's album Stirring Skies
Further reading:
"Benjamin Noble Nomination" - Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society
Capitol Transportation vs. Cambria Steel Co. - U.S. Supreme Court (1919)
Hemphill, Stephanie. "Mystery ship found." Minnesota Public Radio, 20 July 2005.
"Memorial For Master." Escanaba Morning Press, 14 May 1914.
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In Part 1 of a three part bonus series, we discuss the use of prison hulks with an emphasis on their role in the American Revolution.
Check us out on Patreon for parts 2 and 3 of the series!
Sources:
Bowden, Mary W. "In Search of Freneau's Prison Ships." Early American Literature, vol. 14, no. 2, Fall 1979, pp. 174 - 192.
Cray, Robert E. "The Horror of These Hulks." Naval History, 2006
Freneau, Philip. "The British Prison Ship."
Freneau, Philip. "To Lord Cornwallis."
Ranlet, Philip. "In the Hands of the British: the Treatment of Americans POWs During the War of Independence." The Historian, vol. 62, no. 4, 2000, pp. 731 - 758.
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This week we are discussing the tragedy of the Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kursk (K-141), which was lost with all hands in August 2000.
Donation link for the National Bank of Ukraine (Patreon money will be donated from our February proceeds.)
Correction: Multiple times we refer to two of the rescue vehicles as “AN-32” and “AN-34” this should be “AS-32” and “AS-34”.
Sources:
Chuen, Cristina, Clay Moltz, and Nikolai Sokov. "The Kursk Accident." nonproliferation.org. Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. 22 Aug 2000
Лютых, Сергей. "'Наши ребята не дождались помощи'' 21 год назад затонула подлодка Курск. Почему погибли люди и можно ли было их спасти?" 12 Aug 2021.
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This week we discuss the SS Selah Chamberlain, a wooden-hulled bulk freighter that sank after a collision off of Sheboygan, Wisconsin in 1886.
Sources:
"Chamberlain, Selah (1873, Bulk Freighter)." Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library,
Thomsen, Tamara L., Caitlin N. Zant and Victoria L. Kiefer. "Storms and Strandings, Collisions and Cold: Shipwreck Surveys of the 2018 Field Season." Wisconsin Historical Society,2018.
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This week we discuss the 1953 sinking of the SS Henry Steinbrenner.
Sources:
Kadar, Wayne. "The Henry Steinbrenner. " The Lakeshore GuardianUnited States Coast Guard report on the sinking of the Henry Steinbrenner
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In this episode we discuss the 2000 sinking of the Kirkcudbright scallop dredger Solway Harvester.
Sources:
Full report
Summary Report
Scallop Dredging
Fishing Gear - Dredges (NOAA)
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This week we discuss the sinking of the HMS Egret and its overall importance in the history of naval warfare.
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Le quatorze juin, un dimanche
De l'an dix neuf cent trente et un
Le ciel était bleu de pervenche
Et l'air embaumé de parfum
De la joie-z-au cœur, cinq cent promeneurs
Embarquent d'un quai de Nantes
Sur le vapeur " Saint-Philibert "
Sans penser qu'une mort navrante
Tenait leur cercueil entr'ouvert
- "Le Naufrage du Saint-Philibert"
This week we are back in France to discuss the loss of the Saint-Philibert, an excursion vessel that sank on its return journey to Nantes in 1931.
Sources:
Béranger, Fabienne. “Entre Noirmoutier et Préfailles, le 14 juin 1931, le naufrage du navire à passagers Saint-Philibert.” France TV, 2022. https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/pays-de-la-loire/entre-noirmoutier-et-prefailles-le-14-juin-1931-le-naufrage-du-navire-a-passagers-saint-philibert-2133652.html
Le Gall, Erwin. “Le Drame du Saint-Philibert.” En Envor, 2013. http://enenvor.fr/eeo_actu/maritime/le_drame_du_saint_philibert.html
“Le Naufrage du Saint-Philibert.” La Chouette de Vendée, 9 March 2018 https://www.la-chouette-de-vendee.fr/blog/params/post/1456566/
Rouaud, Thierry. “Chanson bretonne sur le naufrage du Saint-Philibert.” Chansons en breton sur feuilles volantes. https://follenn.kan.bzh/saint-philibert.html
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In July 1890, a relaxing day trip turned tragic when the sternwheeler Sea Wing sank on Lake Pepin, taking with it scores of passengers - the majority of whom hailed from nearby Red Wing, Minnesota.
Sources:
Johnson, Frederick L. "Unlocking the Mysteries of the Sea Wing"
Kinkenberg, Dean. "The Sea Wing Disaster"
Pierce County, WI - The Sea Wing Disaster
Sea Wing Disaster, 1890
Shipwrecked on Lake Pepin: The Sea Wing Disaster
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This week we discuss the sinking of the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought SMS Viribus Unitis in the closing days of World War One.
*Originally released 1/16/22; edited and re-uploaded 3/8/22
Sources (available in PDF on Patreon):
“Austria’s Navy and the Adriatic.” Scientific American, vol. 111, no. 10, 5 Sep 1914
Demark, Nikolina. "3000 Tonnes of Steel at the Bottom of Pula Port." Total Croatia News, 26 Sept 2017.
Gerwarth, Robert and Ugur Umit Ungor. “The Collapse of the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires and the Brutalisation of the Successor States.” Journal of Modern European History, vol. 13, no. 2, 2015, pp. 226 - 248.
Kann, Robert A. "Emperor William II and Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Their Correspondence." The American Historical Review, vol. 57, no. 2, Jan 1952.
“The Motorboat and the Torpedo.” Scientific American, vol. 118, no. 24, 15 June 1918, p. 556.
O’Hara, Vincent P. and Enrico Cernuschi. “Frogmen Against a Fleet: The Italian Attack on Alexandria 18/19 December 1941.” Naval War College Review, vol. 68, no. 3, Summer 2015, pp. 119 - 137.
Parker, L. John. “Two Drama Trilogies of Franz Theodor Csokor.” The South Central Bulletin, vol. 21, no. 4, Winter 1961, pp. 37 - 43.
Rossetti, Raffaele. “The Sinking of the Viribus Unitis: Official Report of the Destruction of the Austrian Dreadnought by Two Italian Officers.” Current History (1916 - 1940), vol. 9, no. 3, part II, March 1919, pp. 493 - 499.
Smigelski, et al. “On Deck.” Warship International, vol. 56, no. 4, Dec 2019.
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This week we discuss the loss of two US Coast Guard vessels, the Jackson and the Bedloe, in September 1944.
*Originally released 1/10/22; edited and re-uploaded 3/19/22
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To kick off Season Two of the podcast, we're undertaking our first ever two-part episode to discuss the SS Noronic. Part 1 will be released on Monday, 1/3 followed by Part 2 on Wednesday 1/5.
*Originally released 1/5/22; edited and re-uploaded 3/9/22
Sources:
Bunch, Adam. "Toronto's most deadly disaster: the nightmare on the SS Noronic." Spacing, Jan 26, 2016.
"The Burning of the Noronic..." The Hamilton Spectator, 16 Aug 2003.
Dobson, Cathy. "The Hamonic Burns at Sarnia." The Sarnia Observer, 2003.
Elliott, Robert B. "The Value of Roentgenology in the Identification of Mutilated and Burnt Bodies." The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science, Vol. 43, No. 5, 1953.
Fosmoe, Margaret. "SS Noronic Disaster: 63 Years Later." South Bend Tribune, 17 Sept 2012.
Hauch, Valerie. "Once Upon A City: The day the SS Noronic turned Toronto's waterfront into a deadly inferno." The Toronto Star, 19 Sept 2015.
Lachman, Ernest. " X-Ray Studies in Establishing Identity and Manner of Death." The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science, Vol. 50, No. 2, 1959
"The Northern Navigation Company Limited." The Scanner, Vol 6, No. 7, Apr 1974
Rochon, John. "The sad death of the Hamonic." The Sarnia Journal, 21 Nov 2014.
"Sept. 17, 1949: Scores killed by fire aboard S.S. Noronic." The Toronto Star, 10 Sept 2016.
"S.S Noronic Fire Worst Inland Marine Disaster in Century." Fire Engineering, 1 Oct 1949.
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To kick off Season Two of the podcast, we're undertaking our first ever two-part episode to discuss the SS Noronic. Part 1 will be released on Monday, 1/3 followed by Part 2 on Wednesday 1/5.
*Originally released 1/3/22; edited and re-uploaded 3/9/22
Sources:
Bunch, Adam. "Toronto's most deadly disaster: the nightmare on the SS Noronic." Spacing, Jan 26, 2016.
"The Burning of the Noronic..." The Hamilton Spectator, 16 Aug 2003.
Dobson, Cathy. "The Hamonic Burns at Sarnia." The Sarnia Observer, 2003.
Elliott, Robert B. "The Value of Roentgenology in the Identification of Mutilated and Burnt Bodies." The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science, Vol. 43, No. 5, 1953.
Fosmoe, Margaret. "SS Noronic Disaster: 63 Years Later." South Bend Tribune, 17 Sept 2012.
Hauch, Valerie. "Once Upon A City: The day the SS Noronic turned Toronto's waterfront into a deadly inferno." The Toronto Star, 19 Sept 2015.
Lachman, Ernest. " X-Ray Studies in Establishing Identity and Manner of Death." The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science, Vol. 50, No. 2, 1959
"The Northern Navigation Company Limited." The Scanner, Vol 6, No. 7, Apr 1974
Rochon, John. "The sad death of the Hamonic." The Sarnia Journal, 21 Nov 2014.
"Sept. 17, 1949: Scores killed by fire aboard S.S. Noronic." The Toronto Star, 10 Sept 2016.
"S.S Noronic Fire Worst Inland Marine Disaster in Century." Fire Engineering, 1 Oct 1949.
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Now available for everyone! This was originally the Patreon bonus episode for September
Hear us discuss the White Ship Disaster of 1120, which laid the groundwork for a bloody and chaotic time “when Christ and his saints slept” in the kingdom of England.
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This week we discuss the John B. Cowle, which sank in 1909 after a collision with returning Breakers guest star the Isaac M. Scott.
*Originally released 12/20/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/3/22
Sources:
Numerous articles from the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Duluth News Tribune (shared on Patreon in a public post), accessed via the America's Historical Newspapers database.
Deadliest American Disasters and Loss-of-Life Events
Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
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This week we discuss the early stages of the Battle of the Atlantic and the loss of the British vessel HMT Bedfordshire.
*Originally released 12/13/21; edited and re-uploaded
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This week we discuss the sinking of the Russian monitor Rusalka in 1893, leading us eventually to one of the most unique shipwrecks of all those we've covered so far.
correction
- Towards the end of the episode Tanner mistakenly says that Rusalka sank during the reign of Nicholas II; he did not become Tsar until 1896. Rusalka sank during the reign of his father Alexander III.
This error was made presumably because Tanner does not respect the Romanov monarchy.
*Originally released 12/6/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/27/22
Sources:
"Battleships Rusalka and Charodeika." Rustrana, 11 Oct 2007.
Chikin, V.O. "The Mystery of the Disappearance of the Rusalka." Priroda, 2004, no. 4.
Delgado, J. "The Wreck of the Mermaid." Archaeology, 2008, vol. 61, no. 5.
Nikonov, A. "Rusalka Found!" Priroda, 2004, no. 10.
Nikonov, A. "From Rusalka to Kursk." 2003
Vanner, A. "The wreck of the Rusalka 1893." Dawlish Chronicles, 24 March 2015.
Video of diving on the Rusalka*"
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This week we discuss the loss of the MV Derbyshire, the largest British merchant vessel to be lost at sea.
*Originally released 11/27/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/25/22
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This week we discuss the wreck of the Edmond, one of the many "coffin ships" that carried Irish emigrants fleeing the Great Famine. The Edmond sank at Kilkee in 1850 after being driven against the rocks by a violent Atlantic storm.
Resources:
An Gorta Mor - the impact and legacy of the Irish Great Famine
Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
The Irish Potato Famine - Digital History
Irish Shipwrecks - Edmond
Riches of Clare: Wreck of a Coffin Ship
The Wreck of the Edmond at Kilkee, 1850 - Clare County Library
- Report and Eyewitness Account - Clare County Library
Irish Donors Are Helping a Native American Tribe Face the Coronavirus Crisis. Here's the Historical Reason Why
*Originally released 11/22/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/23/22
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This week we travel to the Pacific Northwest to explore the tale of the SS Valencia, which ran aground on Vancouver Island after missing the entrance to the Juan de Fuca Strait. The subsequent ordeal suffered by her passengers and crew took the lives of 136, according to the officially recorded death toll.
*Originally released 11/15/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/20/22
Selected sources and further reading:
Goodrich, Richard J. "The Titanic of the West: The S.S. Valencia sails to disaster in the Graveyard of the Pacific"
McClary, Darrel C. "The Wreck of the SS Valencia (1906)"
Wrecksite.eu entry for SS Valencia
SS Valencia: The Ghost Ship That Haunts the Graveyard of the Pacific
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We discuss the sinking of the paddle steamer Anthony Wayne on Lake Erie in April of 1850.
*Originally released 11/8/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/22/22
Selected sources:
"Anthony Wayne" - Shipwrecks and Maritime Tales of the Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail
Batemon, Shondra - "From Wreck to Rediscovery - PS Anthony Wayne: a historical treasure"
Krueger, Bradley Alan - Anthony Wayne: The History and Archaeology of an Early Great Lakes Steamboat (2012)
- This is the detailed source that I refer to heavily in the episode; there is detailed information about the ship's engine system and the ship's operational history on the Lakes.
Weisman, Matthew J. and Paula Shorf - "Boats Built at Toledo, Ohio including Monroe, Michigan: A Comprehensive Listing of the Vessels Built from Schooners to Steamers from 1810 to the Present"
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In honor of Halloween, we get spooky this week.
Taylor tells stories of the Black Dog of Lake Erie. Is it out for revenge on the uncaring sailors who allowed it to drown in the Welland Canal?
And Tanner relates the tales of ghostly happenings around the 1873 sinking of the steamer Ironsides in Lake Michigan, and Connecticut's steamship Atlantic disaster from 1846.
Does the spirit of young Henry Valentine still cry for help from passing mariners in Lake Michigan? Does the bell of the Atlantic still toll out in mourning for the lives she lost?
*Originally released 10/31/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/26/22
Selected Sources:
Carter, Donald. Connecticut's Seaside Ghosts, 2008, Schiffer Books, pp. 15 - 20
Lardinois, Anna. "The Ghost of Lake Michigan's Ironsides Shipwreck," Milwaukee Magazine, 2021
Further Reading:
Damned Connecticut interview with Donald Carter
Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes: Tragedies and Legacies from the Inland Seas - Anna Lardinois
WTMJ Conversations: Anna Lardinois
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This week we're discussing the deadly Paisley Canal Disaster of 1810, a tragedy that claimed the lives of 84 people just days into the operation of the Glasgow, Johnstone, and Ardrossan Canal.
*Originally released 10/25/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/20/22
Selected Resources:
"Paisley pub on site of Britain's worst canal disaster to honour victims" - Alastair Dalton, The Scotsman "How Paisley poet Robert Tannahill made his mark on history" - Hamish McPherson, The National"Melancholy Accident" from Walter Scott's Edinburgh Annual Register - see pages 227-228 for coverage of the incidentShort biography of Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton
Casualty and survivor list from Urban Historian
Glasgow's Canals Unlocked
- An informative guide to the history of Glasgow's canals, but conspicuously no mention of the Paisley disaster
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This week we take a trip to one of our favorite countries, Norway. We discuss the Helge Ingstad, which was a modern navy frigate which encountered a problem that has been a part of maritime history since sailing began.
Norwegian Safety Investigation Report Part 1, Part2
Norwegian animation with radio traffic from the incident. (Note, it is in Norwegian, but still very interesting to see it all play out)
*Originally released 10/18/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/2/22
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This week we discuss an incident considered to be the deadliest peacetime disaster at sea in history - the sinking of the ferry Doña Pazoff the Philippine island of Mindoro in 1987.
Source material:
Asia's Titanic - Thousands Died Thirty Years Ago (Maritime Executive)
Dona Paz victims waiting for justice 25 years after - Joey A. Gabieta, Inquirer Visayas- survivor accounts and quotations
Supreme Court case, 1999
Sulpicio gone; owners change name - Irene R. Sino Cruz, Inquirer Visayas
Evacuation descriptions of various types of ferries and cruise ships via Det Norske Veritas
- Doña Pazis covered on p. 40 of the PDF
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Since we weren’t able to put together an episode this week, we’re releasing a pretty fun Patreon bonus episode from the month of August for everyone.
Enjoy our discussion of a few WWI naval engagements, homemade (shipmade?) guns, and the ultimate scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet during internment at Scapa Flow.
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This week we discuss the Great Lakes Storm of 1913.
Recommended reading:
Schumacher, Michael. November's Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913. (2013)
*Originally released 9/26/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/15/22
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This week is actually a discussion of several incidents involving DUKWs, commonly known as "duck boats," with a focus on the 1999 Miss Majestic incident in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and the 2018 Table Rock Lake (Missouri) Ride The Ducks accident.
NTSB Safety Recommendation Report
"Odd DUKW" (Smithsonian, 2002)
"... new duck boat company plans Branson operation"
*Originally released 9/20/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/18/22
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This week we discuss the 2015 sinking of the Russian freezer trawler Dalniy Vostok [Дальний Восток] in the Sea of Okhotsk.
*Originally released 9/6/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/16/22
Sources referred to in the episode:
An animated representation of the sinking of Дальний Восток
Short interview footage with one of the survivors (with English subtitles)
ТАСС-English article from 4/7/15
'Крушение траулера "Дальний Восток" в Охотском море' - Александр Крылов
- RIA Novosti article that was the primary Russian-language source for the episode
Затонувший траулер в Охотском море погубила жадность хозяев
- Komsomolskaya Pravda article
Russian trawler sinks off Kamchatka with 56 dead
- BBC News
'Trawler tragedy lifts veil on illegal recruitment' - Wa Lone and Laignee Barron
- The Myanmar Times
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This week we discuss the deadliest incident for the US Navy of the post-WWII era, a fire aboard the carrier USS Forrestalin July of 1967.
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This week we discuss the sinking of the Royal Navy troop ship HMS Birkenhead off of the Cape Colony in 1852*.
**Originally released 8/22/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/16/22
"Women and Children First!" - Ben Johnson, historic.uk.com
Our Soldiers- W.H.G Kingston
Soldier an' Sailor too (Rudyard Kipling)
The Household Narrative of Current Events, April 1852
- Description of the events in the episode begin on p. 87
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This week we discuss the sinking of RMS Lancastria during allied evacuation operations near St. Nazaire in 1940.
*Originally released 8/15/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/9/22
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This week we discuss the sinking of the fishing vessel Scandies Rose off of Alaska's Sutwik Island on New Year's Eve 2019.
Full public docket from the NTSB investigation
News report featuring an interview with one of the surviving deckhands
*Originally released 8/9/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/16/22
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In this episode we discuss a 2006 accident involving the Canadian RO/RO ferry Queen of the North.
Link to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada report on this accident.
*Originally released 8/2/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/1/22
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Here is our bonus episode from the month of June, now unlocked for everyone! Tanner is joined by Katie to discuss the movie (and book) The Perfect Storm. This is a good chance to revisit a pretty solid film and for you to get to know the third member of the podcast!
Error correction - in discussing the cast, I refer to "Michael McDonald" instead of the correct Christopher McDonald;** the alliteration was too much to resist I guess.
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This week we discuss the deadliest peacetime incident in the history of Australia's armed forces - the collision between HMAS Voyager and HMAS Melbourne.
https://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-voyager-ii
Unfit To Command4 Corners - HMAS Voyager*Originally released 7/25/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/18/22
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In this episode we cover the tragic tale of the paddle steamer General Slocum, which caught fire in New York's East River in 1904, leading to the deaths of at least 1,000 people - many of whom were children.
"A Spectacle of Horror - The Burning of the General Slocum"
- This is the Smithsonian article referenced in the episode
Manhattan Melodrama (opening sequence)
Henry Slocum monument at Gettysburg
*Originally released 7/19/21; edited and re-released 2/25/22
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In this week's explosive episode we discuss the maritime disaster of the cargo ship Cason , which caught fire off Cape Finisterre in 1987, killing 23 crew and causing a months-long potential ecological disaster.
Incident Report
Documentary - Part 1
*Originally released 7/12/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/26/22
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Do you like gold? Hurricanes? Treasure hunting? Swindling and betrayal? We have a story for you.
In this episode, we discuss the 1857 sinking of the SS Central America - known as the "Ship of Gold" - the subsequent search and recovery efforts, and some protracted legal battles.
*Originally released 7/25/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/16/22
Main sources for the episode:
Bowers, Q. David. A California Gold Rush History, California Gold Marketing Group, 2002.
Lacitis, Erik. "Seattle group helped find 15 tons of gold lost on sunken ship. It took 30 years to get their shares." Seattle Times, 5 April 2019, www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/the-ss-central-america-ship-of-gold-and-lost-lives/. Accessed 1 July 2021.
Stone, Lawrence D. "Search for the SS Central America: Mathematical Treasure Hunting." Interface, vol. 22, no. 1, 1992, pp. 32 - 45
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This week we discuss the sinking of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Thresher during deep-dive trials in 1963. The loss of the Thresher with all hands constitutes the deadliest submarine accident in US history.
https://news.usni.org/tag/thresher-inquiryhttps://maritime.org/doc/fleetsub/trim/chap1.htmWelding vs. Brazing Originally released 6/27/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/15/22
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This week we discuss the history of one of the most unique type of vessels in maritime history - the whaleback.
The focus of the episode is on the SS City of Everett, but to tell that story we have to also discuss Alexander McDougall and his dream of a new type of steamship, designed to be invulnerable to wind and wave.
*Originally released 6/23/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/5/22
Pacific Steel Barge Company and the whaleback City of Everett - this was the primary source in researching the episode. It's a good read if you have the time and have an interest in the business/finance side of things. This source dispels both the tall tale of Malaga's surrender to the Everett, and the alleged discovery of its wreckage in 2010.
- Ohio, Denise. "Pacific Steel Barge Company and the whaleback City of Everett." HistoryLink, 21 Jan 2021. Accessed 14 June 2021.
Information about the whaleback James B. Colgate was found via:
- Jackson, Matt. “Dangerous Waters.” Beaver, vol. 84, no. 3, June 2004, pp. 36–39.
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This week, we discuss the sinking of the SS Cedarville, which went down in the Straits of Mackinac in May of 1965.
*Originally released 6/13/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/17/22
Helpful links:
Straits of Mackinac Shipwreck Preserve - Cedarville
United States Coast Guard Report
YouTube Video Diving on the Wreck of the Cedarville
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This week we answer listener submitted questions and share some of our thoughts about the show.
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This week we visit the continent of Africa for the first time on the show. We discuss the loss of the MV Bukoba, a Tanzanian RO/RO ferry that went down in Lake Victoria.
Irish Times - May 23, 1996
News Bulletins covering Bukoba from Features Africa Network
"Zanzibar's ferry disaster could have been prevented" - Saumava Mitra, September 13 2011
*Originally released 5/30/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/18/22
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This week we discuss the loss of Titanic's sister ship HMHS Britannic.
Link to Documentary about Britannic
*Originally released 5/23/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/14/22
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This week we venture to South America to discuss the 2nd worst disaster in Chilean maritime history.
http://chile-catastrofes-tragedias.blogspot.com/2012/07/naufragio-transporte-angamos-6-de-julio.html
https://revistamarina.cl/es/articulo/el-naufragio-del-transporte-angamos/en
https://www.diarioconcepcion.cl/opinion/2019/07/06/el-angamos-un-naufragio-antiguo-y-cercano.html*originally released 5/17/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/14/22
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No new episode this week since I'm a little under the weather. Instead we will release last month's bonus episode! Hope you enjoy!
Link to Stan Roger's Northwest PassageCover by Unleash the Archers that was discussed.
Link to Wreck of the Athens Queen
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This week we explore the Battle for the Atlantic in World War Two. More specifically we look at the story of the SS Atlas how it represents an experience lived by thousands of brave sailors in the early part of the war.
*originally released 5/2/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/13/22
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This week we discuss the loss of the Korean vessel MV Sewol.
We are aware of a audio issues with this one. We were trying a different recording method, but will be going to the traditional way we were doing it.
*originally released 4/25/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/12/22
Link to In the Absence
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This week we discuss the loss of the PS Lady Elgin.
Excellent Chicago Tribune article about the Lady Elgin.
*originally released 4/19/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/11/22
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Today we discuss the 1958 loss of the Carl. D Bradley.
Link to the Great Lakes Lore Maritime Museum's page about the Carl D. Bradley. The museum is located in Rogers City, Mi homeport of the Bradley.
*Originally released 4/12/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/10/22
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Hello Everyone! From time to time we will be doing mini-episodes when we haven an announcement or other news about the pod. We wanted to let you know we will be shifting our release schedule slightly. We will probably be releasing on Patreon on Sundays, and Monday for everyone else.
Additionally I wanted to do a short story that may not have enough information for a full episode, but is still something worth sharing. We hope you enjoy!
Link to an interesting article discussing the disappearance of Theodosia Burr.
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In this episode, Tanner drags us deep into the vaults of history to discuss the sinking of the Tudor-era warship Mary Rose in 1545.
*Originally released 4/2/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/11/22
Tanner also mistakenly refers to the USS Monitor’s sloped sides; he intended to refer to the CSS Virginia (formerly the USS Merrimack)
https://web.archive.org/web/20110725170212/http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~fontanad/maryrose/
- This page features detailed pictures, charts, and maps related to the sinking of the Mary Rose and the battle of the Solent in 1545
https://maryrose.org/ - Official website for the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, England
http://www.3hconsulting.com/sites/SitesMaryRoseMain.html - details on the process of excavating the Mary Rose
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Hey everybody, we have something a little different for you this week. We are taking a little time off but we wanted to share a preview of the bonus content you can expect if you support us on Patreon. We will be producing one bonus episode a month.
This month we will be discussing the tragic 1972 loss of the passenger liner SS Poseidon after an earthquake off of Crete.
*Originally released 3/12/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/10/22
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In this week's episode, we discuss the 1914 sinking of the Empress of Ireland, Canada's deadliest peacetime disaster at sea.
Note
Several times during the episode, we mistakenly refer to the captain of the Empress of Ireland as "Captain Kembell." The captain of the vessel was in fact Henry George Kendall. We apologize for the error.
Video illustrating the Empress of Ireland's sinking in real time.
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This week we discuss the worst peace time accident in US Coast Guard history. The USCGC was a sea going buoy tender which met a tragic fate in Tampa Bay. Join us as we explore the accident and give our thoughts on this tragic loss.
*Originally released 3/12/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/6/22
William Flores, hero of the USCGC Blackthorn
Coast Guard Report
Recommended Reading:
Wilfred Owen
Arms and the Boy
Joe Kassabian
The Hooligans of Kandahar
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This week, we discuss the F/V Katmai, which sank off of Alaska in 2008.
Link to US Coast Guard report.
*originally released 3/4/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/5/22.
Note
- At one point in the episode, the year 2009 is referenced in regard to the sinking of the Katmai; this should be "2008".
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In this episode, we discuss the wreck of the SS Admella, one of the worst maritime disasters in Australian history.
*Originally released 2/25/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/5/22
Milwaukee's Harbor Seagull sinking - https://www.wisn.com/article/crane-on-barge-raises-sunken-harbor-seagull-from-kinnickinnic-river/35604251
23 March 1944, Portland Guardian https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/64388815
September 23 1893, South Australia Register - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/53616242Suggested reading:
From the Wreck - Jane Rawson (2017)
"Kaleidoscope" - Ray Bradbury
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In this episode, we discuss the deadliest maritime accident in US history - the riverboat Sultana, which sank in April 1865 transporting recently liberated Union POWs north at the end of the American Civil War.
*originally released 2/18/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/4/22
For detailed reference:
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2009/august/death-river
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In this episode we will discuss the loss of the SS Milwaukee, a railcar ferry that was lost with all hands in a 1929 October gale in Lake Michigan.
Wisconsin Shipwrecks website with excellent photos of the Milwaukee:
https://www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Vessel/Details/435?region=Index
Historical Marker Database:
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=42299
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The debut episode of Beyond the Breakers covers the story of the SS El Faro, a cargo ship that went down during Hurricane Joaquin in the year 2015.
Here is a link for the NTSB Illustrated Digest referenced during the show.
SS El Faro transcript
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