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The Day a Fishing Trawler Vanished: 37 Men, No Survivors
The Day a Fishing Trawler Vanished: 37 Men, No Survivors
A Royal Navy flag draped a coffin on Ocracoke Island at 5:40 a.m. on May 11, 1942 - but the man inside had given that flag away weeks earlier to bury British sailors in foreign waters. Thirty-seven men sailed from Morehead City on a converted fishing trawler that night and vanished with no distress signal and no wreckage; what happened in the minutes that followed, and why was there no trace until a diary surfaced, is the question this episode pursues.
In this episode, we trace the life of HMT Bedfordshire from its construction as a…
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