Episode 66: The Battle of May Island
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Disaster Area
4.2 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In wartime, terrible loss of life is expected - but usually not due to a series of ridiculous screw-ups. On January 31, 1918, a fleet from the British Royal Navy left a Scottish port in the Firth of Forth with the intention of leaving for exercises in the North Sea. But among that fleet were multiple K-class submarines, a sub notorious for its flaws, its bad luck, and its short history of deadly accidents.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matteris, and before I get started with the episode today, |
| 0:05.3 | let's just take care of the usual housekeeping. For starters, this is one of the requests |
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| 1:15.3 | This particular episode is a little bit complicated and you'll soon see why. |
| 1:19.8 | But also, I made sort of a little bit of a New Year's resolution to myself to finish a |
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| 1:53.0 | Episode 66, the Battle of May Island, January 31st, 1918, at least 104 deceased. |
| 2:04.8 | The Battle of May Island wasn't a battle. It was a joke. Both the name and the morbid comedy |
| 2:11.0 | of errors it describes. When I first went looking for a submarine accident, which fulfilled the |
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