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
Spooky Abandoned Vessels and Ghost Ships - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 co…
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Wed 24 Aug 2022
Sin City of the Gulf Claims the SS Selma - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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…
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Wed 17 Aug 2022
Japanese Fishermen Catch an Alien or Maybe Some Russian Lady - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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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Wed 10 Aug 2022
Soviets Drive Fleeing Nazis Into and Under the Sea - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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…
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Wed 03 Aug 2022
An Impromptu Boat Race Leads to Decades of War - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 fo…
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Wed 27 Jul 2022
The Ingenuity of Narco Subs - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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…
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Wed 20 Jul 2022
The Sinking of the Mary Rose Breaks Henry VIII's Heart - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 d…
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Wed 13 Jul 2022
The Real Story Behind Captain Phillips and the Maersk Alabama - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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…
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Wed 06 Jul 2022
The SS Atlantic Finds Canada's Waters Less Than Polite - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 o…
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Wed 29 Jun 2022
The Final Voyage of the World's Unluckiest Steamboat - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 seve…
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Wed 22 Jun 2022
The RMS Empress of Ireland VS the SS Storstad - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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…
00:51:56 |
Wed 15 Jun 2022
The Ingenuity and Stupidity of the HL Hunley - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 disappeare…
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Wed 08 Jun 2022
The Lioness of Brittany Stains the Seas Red - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 ve…
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Wed 01 Jun 2022
Magicians and Cover Bands Save the MTS Oceanos - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 …
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Wed 25 May 2022
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…
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Wed 18 May 2022
The Legend of the Flying Canoe - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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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00:34:34 |
Wed 11 May 2022
Did Sea Monsters Really Sink a German U-Boat? - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 compartme…
00:40:59 |
Wed 04 May 2022
Mummies VS Billionaires: Titanic Conspiracy Theories - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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 woul…
00:43:41 |
Wed 27 Apr 2022
A Shipwreck Graveyard Claims the Edmund Fitzgerald - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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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Wed 20 Apr 2022
Shifting Into Reverse Sinks the SS Norge - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast
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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Wed 13 Apr 2022
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