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
Caligula's Party Barges - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
In 1929, two ancient ships were discovered in Lake Nemi. These ships had technology and features believed to be impossible until modern day and even more shocking… they had once belonged to one of th…
00:52:42 |
Wed 11 Jan 2023
Blackbeard Steals, Exploits, and Sinks the Queen Anne - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
In 1717, a former slave ship was captured by the most dangerous man on the high seas. For the next 9 months she would be used to make history, chaos, and profit, before deliberately sinking at the ha…
00:53:12 |
Wed 04 Jan 2023
A History of Cats at Sea - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
The sea can be a vast lonely place. Boats filled with rats, trash, and sailors desperate for companionship became the perfect place for our modern furry friends to flourish. How do you hoist a mainsa…
00:36:47 |
Wed 28 Dec 2022
Apocryphal Maritime Weapons of the Ancient World - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
For as long as humans have traveled and battled on the sea, there have been stories of weapons capable of laying waste to ship and sailor alike. Are they real? Do they work? And did they shape the co…
00:39:53 |
Wed 21 Dec 2022
The Philadelphia Experiment w/ Elyse Willems - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
Winter, 1955 - An entire U.S. Navy destroyer is teleported from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Norfolk, Virginia and back. At least that's what an anonymously delivered book of handwritten notes would…
00:58:47 |
Wed 14 Dec 2022
The Real Story of the USS Indianapolis Part 2 - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
July 28th, 1945 - The USS Indianapolis set out from Guam after dropping off the components for the bomb destined for Hiroshima. Two days later, the Indianapolis had sunk. A third of her crew was dead…
00:38:37 |
Wed 07 Dec 2022
The Real Story of the USS Indianapolis Part 1 - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 water…
00:32:55 |
Wed 30 Nov 2022
The SS Yongala Is Lost for Forty-Seven Years - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 myste…
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Wed 23 Nov 2022
Battle of May, Kublai Khan's Blunder, and Ships Hiding Beneath Ground Zero - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 o…
00:42:49 |
Wed 16 Nov 2022
The Hōkūleʻa Fails to Shred the Gnar - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 ca…
00:50:12 |
Wed 09 Nov 2022
Best Of: A Game of Maritime Chicken Blows the Hell Out of Halifax - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 inven…
00:52:23 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
Best Of: Marital Infidelity Sinks the Costa Concordia - Ship Hits the Fan
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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00:49:38 |
Wed 26 Oct 2022
Best Of: A Shipwreck Graveyard Claims the Edmund Fitzgerald - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
"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 th…
00:56:52 |
Wed 19 Oct 2022
Too Many Christmas Trees Sink The Rouse Simmons - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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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00:45:00 |
Wed 12 Oct 2022
The SS Central America Sinks Itself and the U.S. Economy - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 a…
00:46:39 |
Wed 05 Oct 2022
An Unsinkable Russian Nuclear Sub Sinks Itself - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 su…
00:40:04 |
Wed 28 Sep 2022
Even Fertilizer Explosions Are Bigger in Texas - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 sm…
00:46:18 |
Wed 21 Sep 2022
The Pride of the Swedish Empire Sinks Immediately - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 d…
00:43:39 |
Wed 14 Sep 2022
A 17th Century Shipwreck Turns Men into Monsters - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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. …
00:30:38 |
Wed 07 Sep 2022
The Tragic True Story That Inspired Moby Dick - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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…
00:46:20 |
Wed 31 Aug 2022
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