The Sinking of the S.S. Arctic

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 January 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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When the S.S. Arctic joined the Collins line fleet in the 1850s, it was by all accounts a glorious ship. But in 1854, the steamer collided with another ship in a fog, and the resulting panic led to the deaths of most of the passengers.

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0:42.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.
0:45.2	I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:47.2	And if there's a thing we get lots of requests for,
0:49.2	it is more maritime and shipwreck story.
0:51.7	Yep.
0:52.7	So we're going to head back to the ocean today.
0:55.2	And this particular incident is often held in a particularly tragic light,
0:59.7	because it seems that in the sinking of this ship, which was the SS Arctic,
1:04.2	what we now today perceive as a rule of women and children first,
1:09.7	and the captain goes down to this ship.
1:12.2	Those things did not hold true.
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