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The Ship That Vanished Twice: The Unsolved Disappearance of Bannockburn
The Ship That Vanished Twice: The Unsolved Disappearance of Bannockburn
A single cork life preserver washed ashore on December 12, 1902 - no ship, no bodies, and eighty-five thousand bushels of wheat gone beneath Lake Superior's ice-cold surface. The SS Bannockburn had been seen at noon on December 21st and then, according to one captain, vanished in the time it took to lower and raise binoculars; what tore her from sight without a trace?
In this episode, we tell who the Bannockburn was, what she had already survived twice, and the final movements that left only questions on the lake. How…
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