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Men, No Light: The Raritan Grounded on Frying Pan Shoals
Men, No Light: The Raritan Grounded on Frying Pan Shoals
A stripped ship, a vanished light, and twenty-nine men standing on a stranded deck as the Atlantic ground at midnight - the Raritan’s final voyage hinges on a single missing beacon that was never recorded as extinguished. How did a vessel built for one war, repurposed twice, and paid for to the exact penny end up grounded on Frying Pan Shoals with no one able to say who turned the light off?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that led the Raritan from a wartime contract to rusting in a reserve fleet, through conversion and…
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