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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.

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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,…

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 S…

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. 

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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 w…

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…

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-l…

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 th…

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…

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.poherita…

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, n…

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During the episode Tanner refers to the HMAS Voyager colliding with the Frank E. Evans, when it was in fact the HMAS Melbourne that was involved in separate collision incidents with bo…

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, Univ…

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. http…

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 wa…

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. Contem…

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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.

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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.

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