SYMHC Classics: S.S. Arctic

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This 2014 episode covers the collision of the S.S. Arctic with another ship in a fog in 1854. The resulting panic led to the deaths of most of the passengers.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.8	People called them murderers.
0:07.1	Ten years later, they were gods.
0:09.7	Today, no one knows their names.
0:12.2	A group of maverick surgeons who took on the medical establishment
0:15.3	who risked everything to invent open-heart surgery.
0:19.0	Welcome to the Wild West of American Medicine.
0:21.8	I'm Chris Pine, and this is Cardiac Cowboys.
0:25.1	If you like medical dramas, if you like heart-pounding thrillers, you will love cardiac
0:29.4	cowboys.
0:30.5	Listen on the IHeart Radio app or wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:34.5	Sponsored by Jasper, AI Build for Marketers.
0:39.9	Happy Saturday.
0:41.4	The SS Arctic sank on September 27, 1854, or 171 years ago today on the day this episode
0:49.7	is coming out.
0:50.9	Our episode on this disaster is today's Saturday classic.
0:55.0	Please excuse our pronouncing the word Newfoundland, the way we were taught to pronounce it in school,
1:00.5	which is also how it's listed as pronounced in American English dictionaries, rather than the way
1:06.2	many Canadians have told us that it ought to be pronounced.
1:10.4	This episode originally came out on January 15, 2014.
1:15.1	Enjoy.
1:18.3	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I-Heart Radio.
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