Sin City of the Gulf Claims the SS Selma - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast

Ship Hits The Fan

Rooster Teeth

Documentary, Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.4 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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May 31, 1920 - An oil tanker named the SS Selma hits a jetty off the coast of Tampico, Mexico. The impact rips a hole in the ship’s hull and the ship is taken to Galveston for repairs. When those don’t work, the ship becomes a permanent landmark on the Gulf coast of Texas. Follow us on social: https://twitter.com/mc_lotta https://twitter.com/handsomemaster2 https://twitter.com/briangaar 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.
0:04.0	May 31st, 1920.
0:15.0	An oil tanker named the SS Selma hits a jetty off the coast of Tampico, Mexico.
0:20.0	The impact rips a hole in the ship's hull, and it's taken to Galveston for repairs.
0:25.5	When those don't work, the wreckage of the ship becomes a permanent landmark on the Gulf
0:30.0	coast of Texas.
0:31.3	Texas, baby.
0:32.5	All right.
0:33.3	Woo!
0:34.2	I'm Charlotte.
0:35.1	I'm Patrick.
0:36.0	I'm Brian.
0:36.8	Ahoy and welcome aboard Ship Hits the Fan, a podcast about some of history's most notable
0:41.5	uh-ohs and whoopsies on the high seas and gulfs.
0:46.0	And lakes.
0:47.1	Rivers.
0:48.1	Yeah.
0:49.1	Crix.
0:49.7	Yeah.
0:50.4	What is Galveston?
0:51.3	Yeah, what's Galveston's deal?
0:52.9	It is, Galveston's a little notorious in the state of Texas.
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