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The Day a Luxurious Ship Vanished: Koombana's Unsolved Sea Secret
The Day a Luxurious Ship Vanished: Koombana's Unsolved Sea Secret
A gleaming passenger liner, 150 people, and not a single body recovered - the SS Koombana disappeared off northwestern Australia in March 1912 and the official inquiry concluded the loss "escapes human knowledge." What really happened to a ship described as "as luxurious as the Titanic" and why did search teams in 1973, 1985, 1987 and 2012 find nothing?
In this episode, we tell the story of the Koombana from her 1908 launch in Glasgow to the morning she left Port Hedland on 20 March 1912, laying out the surviving facts and the…
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