Greasing Geese on the SS Jeannette - Ship Hits the Fan Episode 6

Ship Hits The Fan

Rooster Teeth

Documentary, Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.4 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this week's episode Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the misadventure of the SS Jeanette and it's journey from San Francisco through frigid Alaskan waters to to make America the first to reach the North Pole. Follow us on social: https://twitter.com/mc_lotta https://twitter.com/handsomemaster2 https://twitter.com/briangaar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	July 8, 1879.
0:09.0	Amid great fanfare and an 11-gun salute, the SS-Ginette leaves San Francisco,
0:15.0	planning to sail through the newly purchased Alaskan territory and onto the top of the world.
0:20.0	Its mission was bold, to make the United States the first nation to reach the North Pole.
0:25.3	But the Jeanette would never make it, and the crew's ensuing struggle to survive and make
0:29.5	it home would make headlines all over the world.
0:32.2	I'm Charlotte.
0:33.0	I'm Patrick.
0:33.8	I'm Brian.
0:34.7	Ahoi and welcome aboard Ship Hits the Fan, a podcast about some of history's
0:38.8	most notable uh-ohs and whoopsies on the high seas. I fell through the ice once. Walking upon a
0:45.3	frozen river, less so than initially presumed. Resica Falls, Pennsylvania drew from her sheath
0:50.7	the icy dagger what plunged into my legs that day.
0:55.5	I lived to tell the tale.
0:59.3	But the mark left by those icy conditions left me a changed woman.
1:02.1	Charlotte lived that day.
1:04.8	The same cannot be said of, Jeanette.
1:07.8	Oh my God, you're trying to rhyme Charlotte and Jeanette?
1:09.5	Good Lord.
1:11.9	I still don't understand poetry.
1:12.6	Horrible.
1:13.5	Horrible.
	...

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