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PS General Slocum / SS Eastland

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🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The PS General Slocum was a passenger steamboat built in Brooklyn, New York, in 1891. During her service history, she was involved in a number of mishaps, including multiple groundings and collisions.

On June 15, 1904, the General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River of New York City.[1] At the time of the accident, she was on a chartered run carrying members of St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church(German Americans from Little Germany, Manhattan) to a church picnic. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,342 people on board died. The General Slocum disaster was the New York area's worst disaster in terms of loss of life until the September 11, 2001 attacks. It is the worst maritime disaster in the city's history, and the second worst maritime disaster on United States waterways.[2] The events surrounding the General Slocum fire were explored in a number of books, plays, and movies.

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I mean, I read the books and honestly, it's not even good fancy.

0:04.4

You're fucking crazy.

0:05.6

I know, I know.

0:06.6

That's what everyone tells me, but I couldn't even get through the last one.

0:09.6

Okay, well, I certainly agree that he needs a better...

0:13.6

All aboard!

0:18.6

Editor?

0:19.6

He's like, what are you doing?

0:22.2

Ah, just getting ready for this week's episode.

0:25.3

It's all about boats!

0:27.4

Where did you get the boat?

0:29.3

Heat's family has one.

0:30.5

It turns out they're the kind of poor that has enough money for boats,

0:33.5

but not enough money for someone else to drive it.

0:35.5

Isn't that fun?

0:36.5

Hey, did we hit some...

0:37.5

All right, God, I quit the boat.

0:39.5

I quit the boat.

0:40.5

Oh, he...

0:41.5

Oh...

0:42.5

Okay, I...

0:43.0

Look, I know this is gonna sound like a crazy question, but our studio's like...

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