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The 468-Foot Mystery: Why 24 Men Vanished from the D.M. Clemson
The 468-Foot Mystery: Why 24 Men Vanished from the D.M. Clemson
A cork life jacket and a water barrel stenciled D.M. Clemson washed ashore after December 10, 1908, yet no distress signal, radio call, or wreckage answered why 24 men simply vanished; what could have erased a 468-foot, state-of-the-art freighter and its crew from Lake Superior without leaving the hull or engine behind? What happened in those final hours that left only two bodies returned and nothing else?
In this episode, we tell the preserved record of the D.M. Clemson from launch to loss, detailing the ship's dimensions…
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