S3-E12 - American Luxury Cruise Ship Runs into Green Island (1937)

The SS President Hoover was a ship ahead of its time, with
innovative engine designs, air conditioning in all cabins, and
space for almost a thousand passengers. But just seven years
after being commissioned, the ship ran aground just off Green
Island, which in 1937 was a part of the Japanese Empire. Listen
to this week's story for a riveting adventure involving a
possibly intentional bombing, a journey along the unfamiliar East
Coast of Formosa in the dark, a shipwreck, drunken sailors, and
some heartwarming pre-WWII kindness between Japan and
America.