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The Wrong Preserver: How One Vest Haunted a Deadly Storm
The Wrong Preserver: How One Vest Haunted a Deadly Storm
A single life preserver stamped REGINA washed ashore with a dead man from the Charles S. Price after the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, even though the Regina was a different ship lost the same weekend; how did one vest end up on another ship's chief engineer and what did it mean for the disaster's official story? Who, if anyone, could explain the crossing of gear amid a storm that erased a generation of lake sailors?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events surrounding the Charles S. Price, the Regina, and the man found wearing the…
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