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The Coldstream's Vanishing: Why a Fully-Documented Ship Simply Disappeared
The Coldstream's Vanishing: Why a Fully-Documented Ship Simply Disappeared
A single clerk at Lloyd’s closed a file in spring 1836 and wrote one word beside the Coldstream’s name: LOST - the ship had last been seen 14 months earlier sailing out of the mouth of the Ganges for China and nothing returned, not a plank or a word. How could a vessel with 25 years of logbooks, freight ledgers, and eight captains vanish without trace?
In this episode, we present the documented record of the Coldstream’s service from launch to disappearance, tracing voyages, changing freight rates, and the…
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