HMS Semidefatigable

many of you

Able Seapeople can now check out our discussion of the film Death Ship (1980)

oh you think Jason's a scary movie villain? Freddy Krueger? Pinhead? Yeah how about you try ADOLF HITLER

CAUTION: AM FRENCH

... Officer Yakub?

looks like decisive fleet engagement is back on the menu boys

Fidel put far more confidence in the American people than we have ever been deserving of but we should still strive to prove him right

This guy, for the record

they have fingers in a few different pies actually

Greg Bovino did two tours of duty in the Lollipop Guild and y’all are fucking laughing at him 🤬

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

January Able Seaperson bonus coming soon

I did a poem, folks.

more like Charlie Shirk, this guy hasn't gone to work in months

who is this "Coastguard" anyway. They don't know you. They don't know your struggle. Sail on, bulker

have a bite of our newest bonus episode - 'The Singapore Mentality': Desertion Among Chinese Sailors in the Battle of the Atlantic

Beyond parody

a lot of other things going on right now but if you find some time, we've put out the first bonus episode of Season 6 Fuck ICE yesterday today and forever www.patreon.com/posts/149048...

Episode 161 - The Rodney Disaster In February 1938, the ferry Rodney capsized in Sydney Harbour as those aboard her were watching the departure of the cruiser USS Louisville. This episode is now on the main feed for all listeners.

Episode 161 - The Rodney Disaster In February 1938, the ferry Rodney capsized in Sydney Harbour as those aboard her were watching the departure of the cruiser USS Louisville. This episode is now on the main feed for all listeners.

In the 19th Century, Coalbrookdale was often described as ‘Hell On Earth’ due to the impact of Industrialisation. Perhaps such conditions contributed to the tragedy below. All I know is that William Maybury deserves to be remembered. nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-co...

the first Glant is the deepest 😔

patrons can now check out Episode 161 - The Rodney Disaster - if that's your thing

Season 6 coming soon 🛳️

how it feels to be authentically loved

New Episode! Cook and his crew will continue up the eastern coast of Australia and end up in probably the most dangerous situation they have been in thus far. historyaotearoa.com/2026/01/11/1...

Everyone left of center in this country is going to have to come to terms with the fact that an entire media apparatus has been created to not just defend, but celebrate our deaths This has been the case for Black, brown, and trans Americans for some time. Now the trend is accelerating and widening

Doughnuts are good for you and will make your powerful, says Dunkin’s chief economist

Federally owned Marine Atlantic adds chartered capacity to handle peak demand. Meanwhile in BC, BC Ferries watches as 50 year old ships grown under regular capacity. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Did you know the deadliest shipwreck in history is not the Titanic? It's the SS Wilhelm Gustloff. Over 10,000, mostly civilians, packed on board to escape the advance of the Red Army into eastern Germany. (1/2)🧵 shipwrecksandseadogs.com/100 #history #maritimehistory #ww2 #shipwreck

humans in the pre-podcasting stage of development

People who are Like This online love to turn off the replies and quotes, because they don't like hearing that they're wrong, that the helicopter crew who intervened in The My Lai massacre (at great personal risk) were 18, 20, and 24 at the time

classic first lieutenant "bozo move"

The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….

Praise God, cast pod Happy 2026

doubling up on the Guadalcanal episodes in December left us with no time to record an Able Seaperson episode, so please accept our humble offering of our 2nd Mate episode from February www.patreon.com/posts/sultan...

(your granddad for decades after the war)

Major #shipwreck discovery in Denmark- largest medieval cog (merchant ship) ever found. Built c1410, with 300-ton cargo capacity. Biggest contemporary English vessel was Henry IV's royal ship 'Trinity', also of 300 tons #maritimehistory #maritimearchaeology www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/about-us/...

okay bud sure sit in the glove and hat crate. Knave behavior

“Too big to sail” was right there, and these jokers absolutely left it. Unfjordgivable.

we've recorded the last last last of the Guadalcanal bonus episodes, which will conclude what we consider to be kind of like our own personal Guadalcanal

[werner herzog voice] these prefabricated mortal pastries, dying for cheap spectacle

Our most requested project of 2025 was an updated Historian Edition of our real-time sinking. Featuring major visual upgrades & a new immersive soundtrack, this anniversary release brings the experience home just before year’s end.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgSn... #titanic #rmstitanic

How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How chopped is she, who once was clouted among the nations! She who was THAT BITCH among the provinces has now become cooked af.

priest: for God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life Grinch: Grinches too? priest: actually I don't know