Beyond the Breakers

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This is a teaser containing the first few minutes of our March 2024 Bonus Episode released for patrons at the $5 (2nd Mate) Tier

Patrons at the $3 tier can access one additional episode each month, and patrons at the $5 tier can access two additional episodes each month. 

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Many people are familiar with the RMS Carpathia as the vessel that picked up hundreds of Titanic survivors in the early morning of April 15th 1912. In this episode we discuss that monumental event in the Carpathia's history, in addition to what came before and after. 

Sources:

"Arthur Henry Rostron: Captain of the RMS Carpathia." Encyclopedia Titanica. https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/carpathia-crew/arthur-henry-rostron.html    

"Carpathia 1903." Tyne Built Ships, https://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/C-Ships/carpathia1903.html

"Carpathia 1903 - 1918." The Great Ocean Liners. https://web.archive.org/web/20170919232439/http://www.thegreatoceanliners.com/carpathia.html

"Carpathia Sunk; 5 Of Crew Killed." New York Times, 20 July 1918. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/07/20/98269248.pdf

"Wreck of the Carpathia, Titanic's Rescuer, Found." Reuters Limited, 2000. https://web.archive.org/web/20040427023807/http://www.numa.net/press/092200a.html

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Something different this week as we look into maritime folklore related to predicting (and maybe even altering) the weather.

**we get into the lore at about 11:20**

(for fans of the Loremen - yes, it's Christ-In-A-Hole!) 

Sources:

Beck, Horace. Folklore and the Sea. Mystic Seaport, 1996.

Hole, Christina. "Superstitions and Beliefs of the Sea." Folklore, vol. 78, no. 3, Autumn 1967, pp. 184 - 189.

Minard, Antone. "'Like a Dying Duck in a Thunderstorm':  Complex Weather Systems through the Lens of Folk Belief and Language." Western Folklore, vol. 69, no. 1, Winter 2010, pp. 109 - 119. 

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In this episode we go back to the early days of RORO ferries for the tale of the MV Princess Victoria, lost on a crossing of the Irish Sea's North Channel in January 1953. 

Sources:

Bibby, Miriam. "The Loss of the Princess Victoria."  Historic UK. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Loss-Of-Princess-Victoria-Ferry/

Cameron, Stephen. Death in the North Channel: The Loss of the Princess Victoria, January 1953. 

Jackson, John. “The Loss of MV Princess Victoria.” North Irish Roots, vol. 14, no. 1, 2003, pp. 6 - 12. 

Scannell, James. “The Loss of the MV Princess Victoria - January 1953.” Dublin Historical Record, vol. 66, no. 1-2, Spring/Autumn 2013, pp. 33 - 46. 

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Though recorded in July it's technically supposed to be our June 2023 bonus episode - a discussion of an alternate route to freedom for those enslaved in the coastal regions of the American South. And our much-anticipated dive into John C. Calhoun's global race-war fantasy. 

**this episode was originally published in July 2023. We made some minor edits and clean-ups for release on the main feed**

Sources:

Bolster, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks: African-American Seamen in the Age of Sail. Harvard University Press, 1997. 

Winsboro, Irvin D.S. and Joe Knetsch. "Florida Slaves, the 'Saltwater Railroad' to the Bahamas, and Anglo-American Diplomacy." The Journal of Southern History, vo. 79, no. 1, February 2013, pp. 51 - 78.

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This is the story of a ship - the USS Princeton - but it's also the story of Robert F. Stockton and his most precious brainchild - a 12-inch wrought iron naval gun affectionately nicknamed 'Peacemaker'

Invite your friends, invite your co-workers, hell invite the President!

Sources:

Duke, Marvin L. “Robert F. Stockton Early U.S. Naval Activities in Africa.” Naval War College Review, vol. 24, no. 9, May 1972, pp. 86 - 94.

O’Connell, J. Harlin. “The U.S.S. Princeton.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 1, no. 4, June 1940, pp. 12 - 15.

Pearson, Lee M. “The ‘Princeton’ and the ‘Peacemaker’: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Naval Research and Development Procedures.” Technology and Culture, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring 1966, pp. 163 - 183.

Shomette, Donald G. Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake: Maritime Disasters on Chesapeake Bay and Its Tributaries, 1608 - 1978. Tidewater, 1982. 

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You've heard of Neo-Confederates, but what about Nepo-Confederates.

Here's the story of the USS Underwriter and her loss during a Confederate attempt to re-capture New Bern, NC in February 1864.

Sources:

Coddington, Ronald S. "Civil War Sailors: From the Collections Of Our Readers." Military Images, vol. 30, no. 3, Nov - Dec 2008, pp. 25 - 37.

Duppstadt, Andrew. "USS Underwriter." North Carolina History Project, 2016. https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/uss-underwriter/

Green, John B. "The Underwriter rises from the deep." The Kellenberger Room, 21 Mar 2015. https://kellenbergerroom.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-underwriter-rises-from-deep.html

Powles, James M. "John Taylor Wood, Hero of the Confederacy." June 2004, https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/john-taylor-wood-hero-of-the-confederate-navy/

Sullivan, David L. "The Few, the Forgotten: The Confederate States Marines." Military Images, vol. 3, no. 3, Nov - Dec 1981, pp. 16 -21.

"Underwriter I (Side-wheel Gunboat)." Naval History and Heritage Command, 20 Apr 2018. https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/u/underwriter-i.html

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In our third episode of Season Four we tell the story of the Volga River cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov, and her fatal run-in with the Imperial Bridge at Ulyanovsk in June 1983.

**a very small part of conversation was cut when Tanner was talking about The Others of Edenwell by Verity Holloway. The missing portion was something like 'books that are set during WWI but not in the trenches on the Western Front' 

Sources:

Жуковскуй, Иван. "'Сверху сплошным потоком лилась кровь': 40 лет жуткой катастрофе на теплоходе Александр Суворов." Газета.ru, 5 June 2023. https://www.gazeta.ru/science/2023/06/05/17091698.shtml?updated

Лысенко, Яков. "Смертельный круизЬ крушение советского Титаника." Газета.ru, 5 June 2018. https://m.gazeta.ru/social/2018/06/04/11786569.shtml

Николаева, Екатерина. "Тайна крупнейшей речной катастрофы в СССР: как лайнер Александр Суворов на полном ходу врезался в мост." Tech Insider, 31 Aug 2023. https://www.techinsider.ru/popmem/1610813-taina-krupneishei-rechnoi-katastrofy-v-sssr-kak-teplohod-aleksandr-suvorov-na-polnoi-skorosti-vrezalsya-v-most/

"Трагедия теплохода Александр Суворов." Mil. Press Flot, https://flot.com/news/dayinhistory/?ELEMENT_ID=1559

Шишкин, Олег. "Почему четверть века назад погибли пассажиры теплохода Александр Суворов?" Первый Канал, 5 June 2008. https://www.1tv.ru/news/2008-06-05/190340-pochemu_chetvert_veka_nazad_pogibli_passazhiry_teplohoda_aleksandr_suvorov

Fade out music: Вечная память (Eternal Memory) from Pavel Chesnokov's Requiem No. 2, Op.39 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-kpytNA-0

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In May 1944,  during the buildup to Operation Forager, another shocking disaster rocked Pearl Harbor.

Sources:

Barger, Mel. "LST Memories: The Second Pearl Harbor Disaster." LST Scuttlebutt: The Official Website of the United States LST Association. https://www.uslst.org/memories/27-articles/17-lst-memories-the-second-pearl-harbor-disaster

Oral history of the experience of Paul E. Cooper, “Farm Boy from Oklahoma,” in Saipan: Oral Histories of the Pacific War, compiled and edited by Bruce M. Petty (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002), 105.

"Pearl Harbor Ablaze Again: The West Loch Disaster, 21 May 1944." Naval History and Heritage Command. https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1944/west-loch.html

Samuel Eliot Morison, History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II, vol. 8: New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944 to August 1944 (Boston: Little, Brown (1953), 171.

Footage of the West Loch Disaster

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