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The Trawler That Vanished: 11 Men, One Empty Lifeboat, No Answers
The Trawler That Vanished: 11 Men, One Empty Lifeboat, No Answers
Fear of unresolved violence: a neutral Irish trawler was struck by a single cannon shell in dark Atlantic waters on March 9, 1940, and twelve days later her empty lifeboat washed ashore on Tiree - eleven men gone with no bodies and no official cause for 46 years. How did a coal-fired steam trawler flying the Irish tricolour become the only ship among six on the bank to be hit, and who ordered that shot?
In this episode, we tell the account of the ST Leukos’s final voyage, the empty lifeboat found on March 21, 1940, and the…
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