Ship Hits The Fan: Recent Episodes
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What’s worse than death? How about meeting your end on the high seas, marooned, while sharks swim hungrily by? Or being trapped in a toppled ship in the middle of a bustling city? Set sail with Charlotte and Patrick as these landlubbers delve into the depths of history to find the weirdest, scariest and just plain stupidest marine disasters in history.
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Today we continue the tale of the RMS Titanic. When we left off, the ill fated ship was approaching Newfoundland on her (so far) uneventful voyage. What happened next has reverberated throughout history and continues to haunt, shock, and amaze
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The USS Indianapolis set out from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor on a top secret mission. Two weeks later the Indianapolis had sunk, and her crew had spent three harrowing days in shark infested waters. The world would never be the same again.
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March 23rd, 1911 - A cargo ship carrying forty-nine passengers, seventy-three crew members, and one famous racing horse, Set out from Mackay, Australia. Within hours the ship and all aboard had mysteriously disappeared, only to be discovered forty-seven years later.
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A fleet of ships and submarines enter a foggy cove, not knowing they are sailing to their deaths. The most powerful fleet in the ancient world is thwarted by a seemingly supernatural storm. And one of America’s greatest tragedies on land reveals a mysterious maritime relic.
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March 16th, 1978 - A traditional Hawaiian canoe left Honolulu with plans to travel to Tahiti using only ancient navigation methods and the tools of their ancestors. Only a few hours later the boat capsized, and one crew member would never be seen again.
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In this week's episode Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the needless tragedy of the SS Mont-Blanc, whose collision with the SS Imo resulted in the largest ever man made explosion until the invention of the atomic bomb.
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In this week's episode Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the tragedy of The Costa Concordia, the only cruise ship in history to meet its end due to category 5 peacocking.
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"Tell your friends, tell your mom, tell her book club."
This week Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the final voyage of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, just one in a long line of ships swallowed by the capricious, freezing waters of the Great Lakes.
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Nov 23, 1912 - A ship loaded with Christmas trees sinks in a violent storm on Lake Michigan. All on board were killed. But the wreck would become a legend that lives on to this day.
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Sept 12, 1857 - A sidewheel steamer named the SS Central America sinks off the coast of North Carolina. Hundreds of people died in what was one of the worst maritime disasters at the time. But also aboard the ship was millions of dollars in gold. What happened next would cause a financial meltdown in the US that would be felt for years to come.
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August 12, 2000 - The Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk, is taking part in a major fleet exercise when a pair of huge explosions rocks the craft. What happens next is one of the worst peacetime submarine accidents ever.
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April 16, 1947 - A cargo ship filled with fertilizer prepares to leave the Texas coast en route to Europe, to help with the rebuilding effort after World War II. But before the ship leaves port, a small fire is spotted on board. What followed would be the deadliest industrial accident in American history.
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August 10, 1628 - The newly built warship, the Vasa, an incredibly ornate and well-armed ship that’s the pride of the Swedish Empire, sinks almost immediately after it launches. It’s an unmitigated disaster and an embarrassment for the king. And today, nearly 400 years later the Vasa is both a historical treasure and a lesson in what not to do.
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June 4, 1629 - A ship loaded with treasure wrecks near a small island off the western coast of Australia. Many on board manage to escape and make their way to shore. But that was just the beginning. What followed was a tale of mutiny, backstabbing and murder that has been called “one of the worst horror stories in maritime history.”
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November 20, 1820 - An American whaleboat is attacked and destroyed, ironically, by a whale. What happens next is a harrowing account of survival that would go on to inspire one of the great American novels.
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Feb 16, 2020 - A jogger near the southern coast of Ireland makes a strange discovery: a rusty 2,400-ton ship appeared to be stranded on some rocks. Authorities later arrive on the scene and try to contact anyone on board. But nobody responds. The ship is abandoned, and has been for a long time, in one of the strangest maritime events in recent memory.
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May 31, 1920 - An oil tanker named the SS Selma hits a jetty off the coast of Tampico, Mexico. The impact rips a hole in the ship’s hull and the ship is taken to Galveston for repairs. When those don’t work, the ship becomes a permanent landmark on the Gulf coast of Texas.
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February 22, 1803 - A group of Japanese fishermen spot a very unusual boat floating near the shore. What happens next will become a legend that endures over the next 200 years.
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January 30, 1945 - The curtain is falling on Nazi Germany, and the Eastern Front is collapsing as the Soviet Army advances. Thousands of panicked German evacuees and soldiers pile onto an ocean liner in the hopes of escaping via the Baltic Sea. Most would never make it. What happened next would be the deadliest disaster in maritime history.
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November 24, 1120 - A ship full of English nobles, including the heir to the throne, hits a rock off the coast of Normandy. What happens next will set off a crisis in England that will reverberate for centuries to come.
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January 2022. Óscar Moreno Ricardo is arrested by authorities in Colombia. Authorities say the former speedboat driver has devoted the last 20 years to building some of the most ingenious vehicles in the world: narco subs. We’re going to learn all about them in this weeks’ episode.
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July 19, 1545. The English warship, the Mary Rose, sinks during a battle against the invading French army. The fate of the Mary Rose was a mystery that has lasted hundreds of years -- but in recent decades the ship was pulled from the bottom of the sea, and has become a priceless historic artifact.
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April 8, 2009. The Maersk Alabama is traveling to Kenya with a load of food aid when it’s attacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean. It’s the first time in two centuries that a US flagged ship has been seized by pirates. What happened next became an international sensation, and the subject of a blockbuster movie, starring Tom Hanks.
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March 31, 1873. The SS Atlantic is making its 19th trip across the Atlantic Ocean, carrying nearly 1,000 passengers from Liverpool, England to New York City. But there was a problem. It was running out of fuel. Its captain decided on a change of course. And that decision would lead to one of the worst disasters in maritime history.
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Warning: Potentially disturbing or upsetting content. June 15, 1904 - A group of churchgoers from Manhattan are headed to a summer picnic in Long Island. It’s a trip that the group have made for several years, and today’s voyage shouldn’t be any different. But instead the joyous outing turned into a disaster. It would virtually wipe an entire community off the map of Manhattan and it would be New York's worst loss of life until Sept. 11, 2001.
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May 29, 1914 -- The RMS Empress of Ireland had set sail from Quebec to Liverpool with more than 1,000 passengers on board. Two years after the Titanic disaster, the Empress and other ocean liners had been outfitted with a number of safety measures, to ensure that such a catastrophe would never happen again. It didn’t work.
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February 17th, 1864 -- The HL Hunley makes history as the Confederate ship became the first combat submarine to sink an enemy craft. But after sinking a 1,200 ton Union warship, the Hunley disappeared. What happened to this historic sub, that changed the face of naval warfare forever?
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August 2, 1343. A French nobleman is executed by the king for treason. His wife is distraught, especially when his head is displayed on a pole for all to see. She swears revenge. How she takes her vengeance will earn her a place in naval history for centuries to come.
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August 3, 1991 -- A cruise ship is sinking off the coast of South Africa. Most of the crew have abandoned ship, leaving hundreds of passengers to their watery graves. But an unlikely group of heroes had other ideas.
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In this week's episode Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the needless tragedy of the SS Mont-Blanc, whose collision with the SS Imo resulted in the largest ever man made explosion until the invention of the atomic bomb.
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Would you make a deal with the Devil for a little Canadian Strange? This week Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian butcher the French language while chatting about Canada's Legend of the Flying Canoe!
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This week Charlotte, Patrick and Brian try to figure out if Germany's WWI sub SS UB-85 was actually felled by vicious sea monsters, or maybe, just maybe, it was that open hatch flooding the compartment.
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This week's extra special bonus episode Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the weirdest conspiracy theories out there about the sinking of the Titanic. And if you were worried that no mummies would be involved, boy do we have a surprise for you!
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This week Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the final voyage of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, just one in a long line of ships swallowed by the capricious, freezing waters of the Great Lakes.
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In this week's episode Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the tragedy of The SS Norge, a livestock transport turned passenger vessel felled by every sailor's greatest nemesis: a rock.
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In this week's episode Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the misadventure of the SS Jeanette and it's journey from San Francisco through frigid Alaskan waters to to make America the first to reach the North Pole.
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In this week's episode Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the tragedy of The Costa Concordia, the only cruise ship in history to meet its end due to category 5 peacocking.
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In this week's episode Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian lighten the mood a bit with the story of the Peter Iredale, run aground by the treacherous waters of The Graveyard of the Pacific.
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In this week's episode Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the tragic story of the Doña Paz and the Vector, an easily avoidable collision that became the deadliest peacetime ship disaster of the twentieth century.
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In this special mini episode Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian just wanted to let their families know that they have indeed heard about the Endurance being found and they can stop texting them any time.
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This week Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the fiery demise of the Sultana, whose explosion while transporting Union Army POWs remains the worst maritime disaster in United States History.
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This week Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the tragedy of the SS Eastland, which caused the largest loss of life from a shipwreck on the Great Lakes without ever unmooring from the dock.
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SOURCES: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/eastland-disaster-killed-more-passengers-titanic-and-lusitania-why-has-it-been-forgotten-180953146/ https://eastlanddisaster.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Eastland
Charlotte, Patrick and Brian are here to introduce a new podcast about maritime disasters: Ship Hits The Fan!