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The Silent Shipwreck: 295 Men Lost Without a Signal
The Silent Shipwreck: 295 Men Lost Without a Signal
A routine maiden voyage in January 1889 carried 120,000 pounds in gold sovereigns, yet twenty-six years later the same ship sank in 1915 with 295 men and not a single distress signal sent - what could have silenced her? This episode centers on a ship examined and rejected by the Admiralty in 1888 for weak engines, later requisitioned in wartime, that vanished off the Irish coast with no survivors and no confirmed cause.
In this episode, we lay out the ship’s three separate lives, the technical details that mattered, and the sequence of…
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