Beyond the Breakers

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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

Patrons at the $3 tier can access one additional episode each month, an…

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…

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…

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…

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. An…

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 'Peacemake…

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.

Sour…

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…

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 Offici…

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 …

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 …

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…

**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 th…

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 m…

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 outla…

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 w…

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 …

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 S…

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 b…