Offbeat Oregon History podcast
www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com)
4.8from 266 ratings
- 738
- Episodes
- 604
- Transcribed
- 266
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 2K
- YouTube views
About Offbeat Oregon History podcast
A daily (5-day-a-week) podcast feed of true Oregon stories -- of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold. Stories of shanghaied sailors and Skid Road bordellos and pirates and robbers and unsolved mysteries. An exploding whale, a couple shockingly scary cults, a 19th-century serial killer, several very naughty ladies, a handful of solid-brass con artists and some of the dumbest bad guys in the history of the universe. From the archives of the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper column. Source citations are included with the text version on the Web site at https://offbeatoregon.com.
- Publisher
- www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com)
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Nov 2023
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
604 of 738 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
A deadly marine concert of timidity, incompetence
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Was legendary city of Quivira on Oregon Coast?
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bridge-building scandal aroused Portlanders’ fury
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A deadly marine concert of timidity, incompetence
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Here's the story. On the last day of her life, the Tsarina was loaded with a heavy cargo of cement and coal below decks, with some 40,000 board feet of lumber lashed to the decks, and scheduled for a coastwise run to San Francisco to deliver it. The ship may have been overloaded, such steamers often were. A fierce gale was blowing out of the southwest, making conditions on the bar decidedly hostile. Prudent skippers were waiting for conditions to settle down before putting out to sea, but for reasons that will never be known, Captain Dugan decided to take the little steamer out to sea anyway. That was the first of many boneheaded moves on the part of virtually all the players involved in the Tsarina's demise. […]
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- YouTube views
- 2,023
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 206 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 60 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100
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- Quality
- 90
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 68
- Engagement
- 99
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