Following up on our Battleship Potemkin bonus, we are staying in the mutinous mood with this two-part series on the whaleship Globe, and the enigmatic boatsteerer Samuel Comstock who would cast her into infamy.

Sources:

Couper, Alastair. “Dangers, Mutinies, and the Law.” Sailors and Traders: A Maritime History of the Pacific Peoples.” University of Hawai’i Press

Gibson, Gregory. Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe. Little, Brown, and Company, 2002.

Heffernan, Thomas Farel. The Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock. Norton, 2002.

Hoyt, Edwin P. The Mutiny on the Globe. Random House, 1975.

Woodman, Richard. A Brief History of Mutiny. Carroll & Graf, 2005.

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**this is a short preview of a much longer bonus episode we did on Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, available for $3 and $5 patrons**

Religious symbolism plays a major role in the works of Sergei Eisenstein, so we found ourselves discussing it quite a bit during our episode on Battleship Potemkin. For Easter, we've cut those sections of the episode together in one concentrated mini-episode.

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This week we discuss the loss of the USS Turner, a Gleaves-class destroyer that sank off of New York City in January 1944.

**Jump to around 13:30 to get right into the action**

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Sources:

"Gleaves class destroyers (1940)." https://naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/us/gleaves-class-destroyers.php

Naczi, Robert F. "Special: Tragedy Strikes in New York Harbor." U.S. Naval Institute, December 1995, https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1995/december/special-tragedy-strikes-new-york-harbor

Verga, Christopher. "Sinking of the U.S.S. Turner: Tragedy, Heroism, and Mystery." Fire Island News, 26 Dec 2024. https://www.fireislandnews.com/history/sinking-of-the-u-s-s-turner-tragedy-heroism-and-mystery/#:~:text=Huus%20rapidly%20mobilized%20his%20crew,survivors%20before%20additional%20help%20arrived

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