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The Clock at Four AM: How the Whaleback Clifton Vanished
The Clock at Four AM: How the Whaleback Clifton Vanished
A stopped clock washed ashore still attached to a section of pilot house; its hands frozen at four in the morning during one of the most violent storms ever recorded on the Great Lakes. For ninety-three years a folk ballad and scattered wreckage were all that told the story - but what really sank the Clifton remains an open question: did the high-mounted self-unloading gear doom her, or did the wreck tell a different tale?
In this episode, we lay out the Clifton’s history from her build to her final radio call and the wreckage that…
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