Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs
Rich Napolitano
Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs tells the stories of the most notorious, tragic, unfortunate, and mysterious events in the history of ocean voyages, spanning ancient shipwrecks to the very...
Episode list
53
July 29, 2025
52 min
The Adriatic: A Civil War Era Ship Uncovered
In 1864, the American packet ship Adriatic was on voyage from London to New York when it was captured and burned by the notorious Confederate raider CSS Tennessee. The passengers a...
moreJuly 22, 2025
1 hr 9 min
Flotsam & Jetsam: Artifacts, Stories, and Conspiracies of the Morro Castle
Rich chats with Deb Whitcraft, of the New Jersey Maritime Museum, which houses the world's largest collection of artifacts and memorabilia related to the Morro Castle. https://njm...
moreJuly 15, 2025
53 min
The Inferno of the Morro Castle
The Morro Castle shipwreck of 1934 was a tragic maritime disaster involving a luxury passenger liner operated by the Ward Line. On September 8, 1934, while en route from Havana to ...
moreJuly 8, 2025
52 min
Discovering the Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario
In 2025, a team of eight students, scientists, and engineers from the University of Rhode Island conducted the first survey of known shipwrecks in the Lake Ontario National Marine ...
moreJune 24, 2025
47 min
King Henry VIII's Lost Warship: The Mary Rose
The Mary Rose was a warship of the Tudor era of the English monarchy, built in 1510 during the reign of King Henry VIII. The hulking ship was the king's favorite for many years, un...
moreJune 20, 2025
8 min
Listener Appreciation Week: The Wreck That Crashed the Stock Market
Listener Appreciation Week Day 5 When the SS Central America sank off the coast of South Carolina in 1857, it went down with millions of dollars worth of gold from California. The ...
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