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Fifty-eight men sailed into the North Atlantic that winter. One came back
Fifty-eight men sailed into the North Atlantic that winter. One came back
Cold, wind-driven ice silently tipped working trawlers until buoyancy failed: fifty-eight men died and one survivor, Harry Eddom, washed ashore in a liferaft on 6 February 1968 after sharing it with two men who were already dead. How did a mayday go unpassed, liferafts float by for weeks, and three ships from Hull disappear in a single month?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that led from normal departures out of Hull to the Triple Trawler Disaster, outlining the missed mayday, the ignored liferaft, and…
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