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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you missed in history class from how

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Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm Trasevie Wilson. And if there's a thing we get

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Speaker 1: lots of requests for it is more maritime and shipwreck story. Yep.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to head back to the ocean today.

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Speaker 1: And this particular incident is often held in a particularly

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Speaker 1: tragic light because it seems that in the sinking of

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Speaker 1: this ship, which was the s s Arctic, the what

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Speaker 1: we now today perceive as a rule of women and

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Speaker 1: children first and the captain goes down to this ship,

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Speaker 1: those things did not hold true. Uh, none of the

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Speaker 1: women or children aboard the vessel survived the sinking spoiler alert.

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Speaker 1: And the captain did survive, even though he did not

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Speaker 1: expect to. Yeah, he did not abandon ship, but he

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Speaker 1: did survive the ordeal. We'll also talk about this whole

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Speaker 1: women and children first idea, Yeah, and the episode once

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Speaker 1: we have all this context in our belts. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: some cool modern statistical analysis that's been done as well

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Speaker 1: as some research on sort of where that concept came from,

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Speaker 1: and it puts things in an interesting light. I think

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Speaker 1: when we talk about shipwrecks, so we're gonna start talking

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Speaker 1: about the s s Arctic. And it was completed in

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Speaker 1: eighteen fifty and by every account it was a really

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Speaker 1: glorious ship. She was the third of four Atlantic steamers

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Speaker 1: in the Collins fleet, and they were recognized as just

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Speaker 1: the finest of their time when they were introduced. The

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Speaker 1: other ships were the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Baltic

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Speaker 1: and uh the pride of the Collins Line of New York,

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Speaker 1: which was founded by Edward Knight Collins. The Arctic was

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Speaker 1: a wooden hull, panel wheel steamer that was designed to

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Speaker 1: hundred passengers, although the passenger space was expanded to accommodate

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Speaker 1: two eight passengers in eighteen fifty one. And it was

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Speaker 1: two eighty five feet long, which is about eighty seven meters,

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Speaker 1: and it weighed in at two thousand, eight hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty six tons. Although it launched on January one, eighteen fifty,

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Speaker 1: it's maiden voyage didn't happen until October twenty seven of

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Speaker 1: that year. And like her three sister ships, the Arctic

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Speaker 1: could maintain a speed of twelve knots, which is really

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Speaker 1: fast for the time, and in February of eighteen fifty

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Speaker 1: to the Arctic set a record for the fastest eastbound

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Speaker 1: Arctic started its career, it was part of a lucrative

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Speaker 1: contract that the Collins Line had with the United States

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Speaker 1: government to be a mail runner between America and Great Britain.

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Speaker 1: And in addition to their income from mail service, they

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Speaker 1: line did very well against Cunard. Their ships were really

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Speaker 1: again beautiful, they were brand new. They could run several

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Speaker 1: nuts faster than the Kenard fleet. But the cost of

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Speaker 1: ongoing maintenance of this advanced machinery that was in the

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Speaker 1: Colin ships did draw off some of their competitive edge.

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Speaker 1: Uh and sometimes it would put their ships out of

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Speaker 1: as it became apparent that, you know, they couldn't always

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty or so crew members. The captain was

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Speaker 1: When the Vesta was spotted, they sounded the alarm, but

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Speaker 1: And while it may sound incredibly reckless for a ship

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Speaker 1: Arctics wooden hull had been basically annihilated by the iron

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Speaker 1: Loose had tried to save his unconscious son, although was

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Speaker 1: the ship continued to break apart. He was hit in

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Speaker 1: So all one hundred nine of the women and children

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Speaker 1: While the American Maritime Company had initially been a huge

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