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:

"Candela." National Institute of Standards and Technology, 25 July 2019. https://www.nist.gov/si-redefinition/candela

de Castella, Tom. "Lost at sea." Financial Times, 22 Aug 2008. https://www.ft.com/content/5d5efaec-6d8d-11dd-857b-0000779fd18c

"Report on the investigation of the loss of the sailing yacht Ouzo and her three crew South of the Isle of Wight during the night of 20/21 August 2006." Marine Accident Investigation Branch, April 2007. https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/sinking-of-sailing-yacht-ouzo-after-encounter-with-ro-ro-passenger-ferry-pride-of-bilbao-off-isle-of-wight-england-with-loss-of-3-lives

"Yacht deaths trial clears seaman." BBC News Channel, 13 Dec 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7142272.stm

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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-legendary figure of Mike Fink.

*Originally released as the November 2021 bonus episode; edited and re-uploaded to Patreon 3/29/22

Sources:

Allen, Michael. "Sired by a Hurricane: Mike Fink, Western Boatmen, and the Myth of the Alligator Horse." Arizona and the West,  Autumn, 1985, 27:3 , pp. 237 - 252

"Keelboats and Flatboats." Warren County Historical Society

Spradlin, Derrick. "Mike Fink and Frontier Cosmopolitanism in Morgan Neville's The Last of the Boatmen." The Explicator, 2009, 67:4, pp. 243 - 246

Weiser-Alexander, Kathy. "Mike Fink - A Drunken Bully." Legends of America, 2020

Wilhelm, Gene. "Pioneer Boats and Transportation on the Upper James River." Pioneer America, Jan 1971, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 39 - 47.

Further reading:

Allen, Michael. "The Riverman as Jacksonian Man." Western Historical Quarterly, Aug 1990, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 305 - 320.

Bakken, Dawn E. "A Young Hoosier's Adventures on the Mississippi River." Indiana Magazine of History, March 2006, Vol. 102, No. 1, pp. 1 - 7.

Baldwin, Leland D. The Keelboat Age on Western Waters, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1941. 

Mak, James and Gary M. Walton. "The Persistence of Old Technologies: The Case of Flatboats." The Journal of Economic History, Jun 1973, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 444 - 451.

Neville, Morgan. "The Last of the Boatmen." 1828.

Nichols, Roger L. "Army Contributions to River Transportation, 1818 - 1825." Military Affairs, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 242 - 249.

McGregor, John R. "Pioneer Industrial Complexes On The Lower Wabash." Material Culture, Fall 1992, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 19 - 34.

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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 the Delaware River." Hidden City, 23 May 2017.

"U.S. Submarine Nautilus - 1931 North Pole Attempt." Explore North. 

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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!

(Even if you've already signed up, NFL fans may enjoy taking like two and a half minutes to listen) 

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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.se/~m10354/mar/spa.htm

Baetjer, Katharine. "Jean Pillement: Shipwrecks and the Sublime." Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 51, 201, pp. 97 - 107

Blot, Jean-Yves. "Incas em Peniche." História de San Pedro de Alcantara. https://www.abc.se/~pa/mar/spa-histo.htm
^This source, from one of the lead investigators on the wreck site, has a lot of information that we were not able to fit into the episode. Worth the time to explore!

Grant, Jason R. "De Macrocarpaeae Grisebach (Ex Gentianaceis) Speciebus Novis II: Typification of the Ruiz and Pavon Names." Harvard Papers in Botany, vol. 7, no. 2, March 2003, pp. 423 - 436.

Russo, Jorge. "O San Pedro de Alcantara, 1786." 2003.  https://nautarch.tamu.edu/shiplab/baleal-ship-sanpedro.htm

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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.poheritage.com/

"SS Waratah (+1909)". wrecksite.eu, 21 Jan 2021. https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?11731

"Waratah." National Underwater and Marine Agency. https://numa.net/expeditions/waratah/

Wijnberg, Marion. "The Nautical Mystery of the SS Waratah." History Daily. https://historydaily.org/the-nautical-mystery-of-the-ss-waratah/5

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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, no way to build a fire, and no viable chance of escape, the men grew desperate. 

So desperate, in fact, that the men of the Nottingham Galley turned to the bleakest of last resorts - cannibalism. 

Originally released on Patreon May 30, 2022. 

Sources

- Erickson, Stephen. "'To Obviate a Scandalous Reflection': Revisiting the Wreck of the Nottingham Galley." The New England Quarterly, vol. 83, no. 3, Sept 2010, pp. 375 - 412. 

- Snow, Edward Rowe. Storms and Shipwrecks of New England. The Yankee Publishing Company, 1943. 

- Warner, R.H. "Captain John Deane and the Wreck of the Nottingham Galley: A Study of History and Bibliography." The New England Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 1, March 1995, pp. 106 - 117. 

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**correction**

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 both the Voyager and the Evans. Apologies for any confusion! Listen back to Episode 24 for the full story of the Melbourne and the Voyager. 

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This week we're joined by Jamie from Old Shipping Lines to discuss the 1986 sinking of the Russian passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov.

Jamie's Channel - Old Shipping Lines

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Sources:

Admiral Nakhimov: Save Our Souls. 2021. (Russian-language documentary)

Мамулашвили, Николай. "Хроника гибели пассажирского лайнера." Время новостей. 31 Авг. 2006. http://www.vremya.ru/print/159761.html

"Небывалая трагедия в море или судьба лайнера Адмирал Нахимов." 21 March 2010. http://korabley.net/news/nebyvalaja_tragedija_v_more_ili_sudba_lajnera_admiral_nakhimov_parokhod_berlin/2010-03-21-513

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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, University of Hawaii Manoa, 2004.

"Marine Casualty Report - MV Holoholo; Disappearance in the Pacific Ocean on 11 December 1978 with presumed loss of life." U.S. Coast Guard, 1981.

Safety Recommendations - NTSB

Further reading:

Death On the High Seas Act

In Re Holoholo Litigation

Gary Niemeyer Memorial Fund (UH scholarship)

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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. https://web.archive.org/web/20130207014515/http://www.marinhistory.org/article_FerryWreck.html

"Search for Steamer San Rafael." National Geographic, 21 May 2015. https://fieldnotes.nationalgeographic.org/expedition/insearchofsteamersanrafael

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