Beyond the Breakers

Here is Part Three of our season finale series - covering U-20's activities up until she encountered Lusitania, the sinking itself, passenger stories, and the evacuation of the vessel. 

Sources:

Beesly, Patrick (1982). Room 40: British Naval Intelligence, 1914–1918. Long Acre, London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd

Butler, Daniel Allen. The Lusitania: The Life, Loss, and Legacy of an Ocean Legend. Stackpole Books, 2000.

Hoehling, A.A. and Mary Hoehling. The Last Voyage of the Lusitania. Madison Books, 1996. 

Larson, Erik. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Broadway Books, 2015.

Preston, Diana. Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy. Walker, 2002. 

https://www.rmslusitania.info/people/second-cabin/theodore-naish/

https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:91533#?c=&m=&s=&cv=6&xywh=-2036%2C-1%2C5606%2C2669

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In Part Two of our season finale, we discuss the history of RMS Lusitania, Cunard Line, the man who ultimately sank her, and the dedicated team of British intelligence personnel meticulously tracking the movement of German U-boats.

Sources:

Butler, Daniel Allen. The Lusitania: The Life, Loss, and Legacy of an Ocean Legend. Stackpole Books, 2000.

Hübner, Andreas. “A People of ‘Patriotic Hearts’: German-Americans, U.S. Neutrality, and the Building of an Inclusive Coalition in New Orleans, 1915.” Louisiana History, vol. 60, no. 3, 2019, pp. 261 - 288.

Larson, Erik. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Broadway Books, 2015. 

“Lusitania Breaks All Records.” Scientific American, vol. 99, no. 9, 29 Aug 1908, p. 139

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This week we begin our three-part (correction, four-part) season finale, in which we'll discuss one of the most famous maritime calamities in history - the sinking of RMS Lusitania.

Sources for Part 1:

Butler, Daniel Allen. The Lusitania: The Life, Loss, and Legacy of an Ocean Legend. Stackpole Books, 2000. 

Hübner, Andreas. “A People of ‘Patriotic Hearts’: German-Americans, U.S. Neutrality, and the Building of an Inclusive Coalition in New Orleans, 1915.” Louisiana History, vol. 60, no. 3, 2019, pp. 261 - 288.

Tucker, Robert W. “An Inner Circle of One: Woodrow Wilson and His Advisers.” The National Interest, no. 51, Spring 1998, pp. 3 - 26.

Watts, Jarica. “Submerged by Fear: The Politics of Wartime Hysteria in Conrad and Conan Doyle.” Conradians, vol. 49, no. 1, Spring 2017, pp. 17 - 42. 

Reading:

Danger! And Other Stories (Project Gutenberg)
- a PDF of the reading will also be in a public Patreon post

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Here we wrap up our long discussion of prison ships and prison hulks in the British Empire. 

Listen to Parts 1 and 2 if you haven't already! All three parts have now been unlocked for everyone on the main podcast feed. 

Sources:

Forbes, Thomas R. "Coroners' Inquisitions on the Deaths of Prisoners in the Hulks at Portsmouth, England, in 1817 - 1827." Journal of the History of Medicine, July 1978, pp. 356 - 365

Foxhall, Katherine. "From Convicts to Colonists: The Health of Prisoners and the Voyage to Australia, 1823 - 1853." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vo. 39, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 1 - 19

Hobsbawm, E.J. and George Rudé. Captain Swing. Phoenix Press, 2001.

James, Jeff. "'Raising Sand, Soil and Gravel' - Pardon Refusers On-Board Prison Hulks (1776 - 1815)." Family & Community History, vol. 20/1, April 2017

Townsend, Norma and David Kent. "The Men of the Eleanor, 1831: A Case Study of the Hulks and Voyage to New South Wales." The Great Circle, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 109 - 119

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This week we're joined by special guest Ian to discuss the tale of the schooner barge Madeira and the harrowing survival story of her crew, featuring Olympian feats of strength and agility on the icy cliffs of Minnesota's North Shore.

Sources:

Hübner, Andreas. “A People of ‘Patriotic Hearts’: German-Americans, U.S. Neutrality, and the Building of an Inclusive Coalition in New Orleans, 1915.” Louisiana History, vol. 60, no. 3, 2019, pp. 261 - 288.

Wolff, Julius F. Lake Superior Shipwrecks. Lake Superior Port Cities, 1990.

Additional source material from Kathryn A. Martin Library, Minnesota Historical Society Collections, and the Duluth Public Library

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This week we discuss a fatal incident involving the cargo vessel Karina C while she was docked in Seville, Spain, on May 24th 2019. We discuss guidelines, precautions, and how they don't mean anything without a culture of safety on board.

Sources:

Marine Accident Investigation Branch. "Crush incident on general cargo vessel Karina C with loss of 1 life." https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5fbfaf60d3bf7f572e8cbf43/2020-18-Karina-C.pdf

Maritime Executive. "Report: Alcohol Contributed to Fatal Crushing Accident on Freighter." 27 Nov 2020. https://maritime-executive.com/article/report-alcohol-contributed-to-fatal-crushing-accident-on-freighter

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**no main episode this week, but we're unlocking a bonus for you**

The January 2022 bonus episode, a continuation of our Part 1 discussion prison hulks in the British empire, with an emphasis on their use in Australia. 

Hosty, Kieran and Bridget Berry. "Convict Hulks." Sydney Living Museums. https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/stories/convict-hulks

McKay, Anna. "A Day in the Life: Convicts on board Prison Hulks." https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/10/10/a-day-in-the-life-convicts-on-board-prison-hulks/

Stavely-Wadham, Rose. "'Colleges of Villainy' - Life Onboard the Prison Hulks." The British Newspaper Archive, 31 Mar 2021. https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/03/31/life-onboard-a-prison-hulk/

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We're celebrating Halloween in style with some spooky stories of the Eastland, the Kamloops, and the ghosts of Maryland's Point Lookout. And we're joined by returning champion Kaylee!

Sources:

"Chicago Hauntings: The Ghosts of the Eastland." CBS Chicago, 26 Oct 2021. https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-hauntings-ghosts-eastland-disaster/

Coleman, Dorcas. "The Spirits of Point Lookout." Maryland Department of Natural Resources, https://dnr.maryland.gov/Pages/Spirits-of-Point-Lookout.aspx

Eastland Disaster Historical Society. https://eastlanddisaster.org/people/

Flavion, Gary. "Civil War Prison Camps: Suffering and Survival." American Battlefield Trust, https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/civil-war-prison-camps?ms=googlegrant&gclid=Cj0KCQjwwfiaBhC7ARIsAGvcPe7F4qhLTgFcOTMP7ddXg_Hp7I4EsOH4F4Ixss_zUU0r0RFYk53-kQUaAiZkEALw_wcB

Higgins, David M. "Scariest stories of the Chesapeake Bay Region." The Southern Maryland Chronicle, 10 Oct 2018. https://southernmarylandchronicle.com/2018/10/10/scariest-stories-of-the-chesapeake-bay-region-part-5-point-lookout-state-park/ 

Newkirk, Greg. "Meet Old Whitey, the Preserved Corpse of the SS Kamloops, Lake Superior's Most Haunted Shipwreck." Week In Weird, 27 Nov 2016. https://weekinweird.com/2016/11/27/old-whitey-preserved-corpse-kamloops/

"Point Lookout: America's Most Haunted Lighthouse." Unexplained Cases, 21 Feb 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKY6arZH9v8

Taylor, Troy. "The Eastland Disaster." American Hauntings, 24 Jan 2016. http://troytaylorbooks.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-eastland-disaster.html

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This week we are excited and honored to be joined by Professor Karen Barton to further discuss the Senegalese RORO ferry Le Joola. Professor Barton has been an enormously important voice in sharing the story of Le Joola with an English-speaking audience on a wider scale and we are so grateful to her for spending some time answering our questions. 

Sources:

Barton, Karen Samantha. Africa’s Joola Shipwreck: Causes and Consequences of a Humanitarian Disaster. Lexington Books, 2020.

Barton, Karen. "The Joola: The Geographical Dimensions of Africa's Greatest Shipwreck." Focus on Geography.
www.focusongeography.org/publications/articles/joola/index.html
^this is the interactive article referred to in the episode

Commission d'enquete technique sur les causes du naufrage du Joola. 4 Nov 2002. https://www.au-senegal.com/IMG/pdf/joola_041102.pdf

Peltier, Elian. "Deadlier Than The Titanic: A Ferry Set Out With About 1,900 Aboard. Only 64 Survived." New York Times, 25 Sept 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/25/world/africa/senegal-ferry-joola.html
^this article is also available in PDF form in a public post on Patreon

Additional Resources:

The Joola: Africa's Titanic (BBC documentary) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW84OZeXJog

"Report blames army for delay in Joola rescue." The New Humanitarian, 6 Nov 2002. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/35577/senegal-report-blames-army-delay-joola-rescue

Wiley, Pat. The Sinking of the MV Le Joola, Africa’s Titanic: True Story from One of the Worst Maritime Disasters in History. First Steps Publishing, 2013.

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