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Propeller Embedded in a Cliff: The Night the Regulus Vanished
Propeller Embedded in a Cliff: The Night the Regulus Vanished
A propeller was found hammered into solid rock high above the water after the SS Regulus disappeared - the ship had survived an iceberg in 1907 and a head-on collision in July 1910 yet was lost off Newfoundland on October 23, 1910; how did a tow in a gale, begun after an unexplained two-hour delay, end with a wreck that returned nothing? What exactly happened in those lost hours that night?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the Regulus’s construction to her final voyage, describing the decisions made aboard the…
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