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Vanished Intact: The Night the Cemfjord Rolled and Never Spoke
Vanished Intact: The Night the Cemfjord Rolled and Never Spoke
A working cement carrier rolled over and sank whole in less than 25 hours after being seen upright in storm-force winds, leaving no distress call, no liferaft and no survivors - eight men vanished with the ship. Why did a vessel that stayed intact as it sank leave almost no trace and so many unanswered warnings in its wake?
In this episode, we follow the Cemfjord’s history from her 1984 build in Bremen to the fatal January 2015 transit through the Pentland Firth, outlining prior detentions, groundings, intoxicated captains and a…
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