A Forgotten Cargo Ship Destroys Half of Beirut - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast

Ship Hits The Fan

Rooster Teeth

Documentary, Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.4 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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2013, an old cargo ship makes port in Beirut, Lebanon. Unable to pay for port fees and repairs, the ships’ cargo is placed in a warehouse where it sits forgotten for 7 years, until a fire changes the course of Lebanon’s history. Go to http://lectricebikes.com to learn about the XPedition cargo eBike. Follow us on social: https://twitter.com/mc_lotta https://twitter.com/handsomemaster2 Are you a FIRST Member and need your Private RSS feed for this show? Go here: bit.ly/FIRSTRSS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Rooster Teeth production.
0:05.0	2013.
0:10.0	An old cargo ship makes port in Beiru, Lebanon.
0:17.0	Unable to pay for port fees and repairs, the ship's cargo is placed in a warehouse
0:21.4	where it sits forgotten for seven years until a fire changes the course of Lebanon's history.
0:27.4	I'm Charlotte. I'm Patrick.
0:29.2	Ahoy and welcome aboard ship hits the fan, a podcast about some of history's most notable uh-ohs
0:34.1	and whoopsies on the high seas and sometimes land. Again, yet another one where
0:40.3	uh-oh and whoopsie feel awfully out of tune with what we're talking about today. Yeah, yeah.
0:48.9	I didn't, I didn't write an intro for this one. That's fair. This one's, it's a little close
0:53.6	chronologically and a lot of innocence.
0:56.4	Uh-huh.
0:57.6	Like many of our stories.
0:59.5	Yeah.
1:00.0	But this one is, it's lacking in whimsy.
1:02.9	Yeah.
1:03.4	Yeah, definitely.
1:04.6	So we got a slightly different episode today.
1:06.9	You have all gotten far too complacent.
1:09.7	Yes.
1:10.4	Rather than tackling a nautical disaster on the high seas, we'll be tackling a nautical disaster in port.
1:15.6	We've done a few of these.
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