Kaylee is back with us for Breakerween 2024 - this year we've got spooky tales of a haunted U-boat, fishing for Oldsmobiles, and a veritable fleet of ultrabuoyant American-made caskets.

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This week we have another U-boat episode, but this time we're down in the Gulf of Mexico to talk about the SS Robert E. Lee (booooo)

Sources:

"The Panic of 1907 and the Maine Man Who Caused It." New England Historical Society. https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-panic-of-1907-and-the-maine-man-who-caused-it/

"Robert E. Lee." Uboat.net. https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/1981.html

"Screening Level Risk Assessment Package: Robert E. Lee". Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.

Sidle, Jeffrey. "The search for the USS Honesdale." River Reporter, 27 Sept 2023. https://riverreporter.com/stories/the-search-for-the-uss-honesdale,118041

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This week we have wrangled a real live Canadian to discuss the October 1804 sinking of His Majesty's Armed Vessel Speedy and the impact of her loss on the province of Upper Canada.

**one of our upcoming bonus episodes will look at the search for the Speedy's wrecksite**

Sources:

Baillod, Brendon. “The Enduring Mystery of the HMS Speedy.” Shipwreck World, 3 December 2019. https://www.shipwreckworld.com/articles/the-enduring-mystery-of-the-hms-speedy-1.

Bojarzin, David. “HMS Speedy: Murder and a Mystery.” Friends of Presqu’ile Park.

Buchanan, Dan. The Wreck of HMS Speedy. Milner & Associates, 2020.

Climo, Percy L. “The mysterious sinking of The Speedy.” Saturday Morning Post, 9 June 1990.

Girard, Philip. "Rearguard or Vanguard? A New Look at Canada's Constitutional Act of 1791." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. 50, no. 1, 2022, pp. 1-24.

Lee-Shanok, Philip. “Search is on for HMS Speedy - the ship that changed history.” CBC News, 2 Nov 2018.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/constitutional-act-1791

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