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Good Friday Blast: How a Boiler Repair Shattered a Steamship and Ten Lives
Good Friday Blast: How a Boiler Repair Shattered a Steamship and Ten Lives
Fear of sudden, mechanical catastrophe: a makeshift boiler repair turned a 55-foot passenger steamship into shrapnel and killed ten people on a clear Good Friday morning. The PS Telegraph was described as "literally blown to atoms," and a two-year-old's body was recovered only after the death toll had been announced - so how did a patchwork fix become a public crisis that reached Parliament?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of decisions, the technical mismatch and the human stories aboard the PS Telegraph, and we…
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