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The Bottle Note That Proved a Luxury Liner Vanished Without Trace
The Bottle Note That Proved a Luxury Liner Vanished Without Trace
A single message in a glass bottle survived five years at sea while two hundred people did not, washing ashore on a Scottish island in the summer of 1861 with the words "Ship going down. Confusion on board. Icebergs around us on every side." How could a Blue Riband, record‑holding Collins Line steamship disappear with no wreckage, no debris, and only one dying account to prove what happened?
In this episode, we tell the story contained in that bottle and trace the Pacific's history from her launch to the morning she left…
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