Episodes

Moss and Tracy Hills survived 2 major shipwrecks and were heroes of both.

Listener Appreciation Week: Bonus mini-episodes each day from June 16 - 20.

WIlliam Bligh makes his miraculous voyage and Fletcher Christian heads to Pitcairn Island.

Fletcher Christian stages a mutiny and casts William Bligh adrfit.

This guest episode is from History Daily hosted by Lindsay Graham. November 16, 1720. The trials of notorious pirates Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and John Rackham begin in Spanish Town, Jamaica. A co-production from award-winning podcasters Airship and Noiser. For more information about History Daily, please visit https://www.historydaily.com/ For ad-free episodes of History Daily, shipwrecks and Sea Dogs, and many more fantastic history podcasts, please subscribe to Into History, at IntoHistory.co...

The H.L. Hunley sunk the USS Housatonic in 1864.

The French ship Le Lyonnais sank after being rammed by the American vessel Adriatic on on November 2, 1856.

The Princess Sophia was a Canadian passenger steamship that tragically sank on October 25, 1918, after striking Vanderbilt Reef in Lynn Canal near Juneau, Alaska. Caught in a severe snowstorm with strong winds and poor visibility, the ship ran aground and was unable to be evacuated due to worsening weather. Despite rescue ships waiting nearby, conditions prevented any safe transfer of passengers. When the storm intensified, the Princess Sophia broke apart and sank, killing all 353 people on boar...

A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder

Only 316 of 1,195 survived after being sunk by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945.

The SS Western Reserve sank on August 30, 1892, with 27 of 28 on board lost.

Henry Every was one of the most successful, brutal, and savage pirates to ever haunt the oceans.

Myths and legends about the Titanic and a little known interracial love story.

A ship full of immigrants to New South Wales are killed on the rocks.

Roald Amundsen is among the greatest explorers and advenurerers in our history.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria, Hook's Head Lighthouse, and The Eddystone Lighthouse

Three men were hanged for mutiny on board the USS Somers on December 1, 1842.

The pleasure yacht Wawinet went down on September 21, 1942 in Georgian Bay, Ontario, killing 25 of the 42 on board.

On the evening of January 28, 1980 the United States Coast Guard cutter Blackthorn was leaving Tampa Bay when it collided with the SS Capricorn, killing 23 Coast Guardsman.

Bonus Episode from La Fayette, We Are Here! podcast. This particular conflict goes by multiple names and definitions. While it is globally recognized as the Seven Years' War, it is more commonly referred to in America as the French and Indian War, and in Canada as the War of Conquest. These wars are all interconnected and are part of a vast global struggle between the two superpowers of the mid-eighteenth century: France and Great Britain. Considered by many as the first true world war, it cont...

The HMS Gaspee was seized and burned by Rhode Islanders on June 10, 1772.

On the 13th of January, 2012 the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia struck a rocky outcropping off the coast of Italy. The ship lost power and propulsion, and came to rest on its starboard side, just meters from the island of Giglio. Panic and chaos ensued on board, with over 4000 passengers and 1000 crew. Captain Francesco Schettino altered the planned course of his ship to perform a sail-by salute, close to Giglio, without informing Costa operations. His mistress, Moldovan dancer Domnica Cemo...

Bonus Episode from La Fayette, We Are Here! podcast. The Nouvelle France (New France) is the French colonization of North America. Over a couple of centuries, the French established settlements all over North America, especially along the St. Lawrence and Mississippi River but also in Nova Scotia, Florida, Louisiana and more. New France existed from the first adventures of Jacques Cartier in 1534 to the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763 and the signature of the treaty of Paris, that saw Franc...

The horrifying fire and sinking of the Royal Tar killed 32 people and a menagerie of animals.