Ship Hits The Fan

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 been outfitted with a number of safety measures, to ensure that such a catastrophe would never happen again. It didn’t work.

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 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 disappeared. What happened to this historic sub, that changed the face of naval warfare forever? 

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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 vengeance will earn her a place in naval history for centuries to come.  

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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 had other ideas.

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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 invention of the atomic bomb.

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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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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 compartment.

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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 would be involved, boy do we have a surprise for you!

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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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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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