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The Ship That Rescued 400 - Then Vanished Without a Trace
The Ship That Rescued 400 - Then Vanished Without a Trace
A chaotic night in the South Atlantic saw an Indian-built merchant ship named Varuna pull approximately 400 people from the wreck of HMS Britannia after a convoy struck the uncharted Rocas Atoll at 3:30 a.m. on November 1, 1805 - yet none of those 400 names, nor the lookout who first saw the breakers, were ever recorded. How did a vessel tolerated by the registry save so many and then disappear six years later with only the word "presumed" attached to her fate?
In this episode, we tell what the surviving paperwork reveals about…
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