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The Empty Lifeboat: How Eleven Men Vanished from Neutral Seas
The Empty Lifeboat: How Eleven Men Vanished from Neutral Seas
An empty lifeboat washed ashore off Tiree on 21 March 1940 - the only physical trace of the SS Leukos and her eleven-man crew who left Dublin twelve days earlier and were never seen again. How could an Irish-registered, unarmed trawler vanish in neutral waters while a German U-boat logged the action in its war diary?
In this episode, we lay out the known timeline from departure to discovery, the vessel’s history and registry, and the long gap before families received official closure - then follow the clues hidden in a U-boat war…
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