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Seventy-Four Vanished: The Night Royston Grange Burned to Ashes
Seventy-Four Vanished: The Night Royston Grange Burned to Ashes
Seventy-four people reduced to six urns and two graves after a pre-dawn collision left no survivors - how could a refrigerated cargo liner be completely annihilated while carrying ordinary freight like chilled beef and butter? The Royston Grange had run the River Plate route for thirteen years without incident, yet at 05:40 on 11 May 1972 something moved faster than any alarm or lifeboat; what turned routine passage into total destruction?
In this episode, we tell what the transcript records about the last hours of the Royston…
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