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The Engineer Quit - Twenty Drowned When Sechelt Turned Over
The Engineer Quit - Twenty Drowned When Sechelt Turned Over
A steamship built for sheltered bays capsized in under a minute, sending its smokestack beneath the Strait of Juan de Fuca and killing roughly twenty people; the engineer had resigned seven days earlier because he believed the ship would kill someone - why were the lifeboats never launched and no one charged? What really made the Sechelt so vulnerable on March 24, 1911?
In this episode, we present the documented record of the Sechelt's final voyage, tracing the ship's construction, ownership changes, maintenance history, and the…
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