Life Rafts Sink the SS Eastland

Ship Hits The Fan

Rooster Teeth

Documentary, Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.4 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the tragedy of the SS Eastland, which caused the largest loss of life from a shipwreck on the Great Lakes without ever unmooring from the dock. Follow us on social: https://twitter.com/mc_lotta https://twitter.com/handsomemaster2 https://twitter.com/briangaar SOURCES: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/eastland-disaster-killed-more-passengers-titanic-and-lusitania-why-has-it-been-forgotten-180953146/ https://eastlanddisaster.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Eastland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a rooster teeth production.
0:04.0	July, 1915.
0:14.0	Workers of the Western Electric Factory board the SS Eastland on the banks of the Chicago River.
0:20.0	The company is throwing a blowout picnic at a
0:21.8	park 38 miles across Lake Michigan. Employees board the ship with entire families in tow
0:27.5	overflowing with excitement. Unfortunately, not the only thing overflowing. The SS Eastland would
0:33.5	never arrive at its destination. In fact, the ship would never even leave the Chicago River.
0:38.8	I'm Charlotte. I'm Patrick. And I'm Brian.
0:41.7	Ahoi and welcome aboard ship hits the fan, a podcast about some of history's most notable
0:46.7	uh-ohs and whoopsies on the high seas. July 24th, 1915, a day, much like any other Patrick
0:53.6	and Brian, cruel in its unassuming nature,
0:57.3	afloat in the icy summer waters of the Chicago River gleaming is the SS Eastland.
1:03.3	What did this vessel contain? What sorrow? What mystery? What passion? Tell me, dear,
1:09.2	have you ever been witnessed as such majesty, tragically set on a
1:12.8	course to fatality? I think it was James Joyce who said, better pass boldly into that other world
1:19.6	in the full glory of some passion than fade and wither dismally with age. One could say a great deal
1:27.0	of this doomed jewel of the Midwest, but to whither she did not.
1:30.9	You big Joyce head.
1:32.2	Yeah, I've been really, you know, binging Joyce lately.
1:35.7	Okay, yeah.
1:36.7	This podcast is already too smart for me, which is a problem because I'm producing it.
1:41.6	Well, fortunately, it was just Google.
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