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Propeller Hammered into Rock: The Night the Regulus Vanished
Propeller Hammered into Rock: The Night the Regulus Vanished
A ship's propeller was hammered into solid cliff rock as if by an enormous force, yet the men who did it vanished without a trace. The SS Regulus sank on October 23, 1910, with every soul aboard lost and no bodies recovered - so how did one of her propellers end up embedded in a cliff face, and who made the fateful decisions that night?
In this episode, we tell the factual account of the Regulus's final voyage, the weather and mechanical failures that led to the ship being adrift, and the three choices offered to the tug crews as…
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