Ship Hits The Fan
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.
Show art provided by Stevie Jude.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2023
It Has Been a Privilege: The Titanic Part 2 - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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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 (…
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Wed 07 Jun 2023
Iceberg, Right Ahead: The Titanic Part 1 - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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April 14th, 1912, the pride of the White Star line collides with an iceberg and the largest, luxury liner sank to the depths taking thousands of lives w…
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Wed 31 May 2023
The Unlikely Rescue of the SS Mirlo - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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August 16, 1918, a ragtag group of men in a rowboat manage to rescue an entire steamship crew from a flaming wreck.
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Wed 24 May 2023
The Final Disaster of the MS Estonia - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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September 27th, 1994 an open cargo hold causes a cruise ferry to fill with water, capsize, and sink, becoming one of the deadliest wrecks in maritime hi…
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Wed 17 May 2023
Cannibalism and Survival on The Mignonette - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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Adrift in a lifeboat for over 20 days, the cr…
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Wed 10 May 2023
Who Really Owns the Black Swan Treasure? - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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In 2006 intrepid treasure hunters thought they’d hit the jackpot, but confusion over the wreck’s identity, and questions about their hone…
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Wed 03 May 2023
The Andrea Doria and The Stockholm Collide - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
July 25th, 1956 a luxury Italian ocean liner and a Swedish ocean liner collided, but worked together for one of the most successful rescue operations in maritime history.
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Wed 26 Apr 2023
Germany Sinks the RMS Lusitania - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
May 7th, 1915 a German U-Boat torpedoed a British ocean liner, killing almost 1200 passengers and crew. As the ship sank, tensions rose, and set the stage for the US to enter the first World War.
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Wed 19 Apr 2023
What Sunk the Floating Crypto Bro Utopia? - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
A group of cryptocurrency moguls had a dream, a dream of creating a crypto-utopia on the high seas, but poor planning and maritime law would cause their dream to crash harder than their portfolios.
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Wed 05 Apr 2023
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Wed 29 Mar 2023
The Great Lakes Were No Match for The Big Blow - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
November, 1913. One of the deadliest storms in history sweeps through the Great Lakes. In her wake some ships are badly damaged, some are destroyed, and some are never seen again.
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Wed 22 Mar 2023
The Aotaka and the SS Kiangya Explosion - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
In the midst of World War 2, one of Japan’s only minelaying ships sets a series of explosives off the coast of China. The mines remain untouched for nearly a decade, until a steamship fleeing the Chi…
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Wed 15 Mar 2023
A Forgotten Cargo Ship Destroys Half of Beirut - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
2013, an old cargo ship makes port in Beirut, Lebanon. Unable to pay for port fees and repairs, the ships’ cargo is placed in a warehouse where it sits forgotten for 7 years, until a fire changes the…
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Wed 08 Mar 2023
Digging Up the Lost Treasures of the Arabia - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
September 5th, 1856, the Arabia was making a routine trip up the Missouri river. After hitting a submerged portion of a tree, the ship sank below the mud of the river within minutes, taking all of it…
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Wed 01 Mar 2023
The USS Greeneville Impresses Some VIPs, Sinks the Ehime Maru - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
February 9th, 2001, the Ehime Maru set out from Honolulu on an educational fishing expedition, a few miles away the USS Greeneville set out from Pearl Harbor on a trip to impress investors. Hours lat…
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Wed 22 Feb 2023
Kamikaze Pilots Sink the Bismarck Sea - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
February 21st 1944, as the sun set on the invasion of Iwo Jima, a squadron of Japanese pilots approached on the horizon. By morning over 40 planes were lost, and the last US aircraft carrier to be su…
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Wed 15 Feb 2023
Negligence and Fraud Sink the Sewol Ferry - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
Early in the morning on April 16, 2014 a ferry carrying 476 passengers from Incheon to Jeju attempted a tight turn and capsized. The crew abandoned the vessel and the passengers, and within hours the…
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Wed 08 Feb 2023
Enslaved People Seize Their Ship and Their Freedom - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
In the fall of 1841, 135 enslaved people were loaded onto a boat bound for the slave markets of New Orleans. The boat would never reach its destination, but rather its passengers would take control o…
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Wed 01 Feb 2023
The Tragedy of the Taiping Refugee Steamer - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
One freezing January night, in 1949, thousands of people fled China in search of a better life in Taiwan. Only hours later, under cover of darkness, the ship carrying them struck another vessel leavi…
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Wed 25 Jan 2023
The SS Ohio Endures Hell Saving the Island of Malta - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
August 3rd, 1942 the Island of Malta was trapped in the middle of the Mediterranean Ocean during one of the most brutal naval battles of World War 2. In desperate need of fuel, protection, and food, …
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Wed 18 Jan 2023
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