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The Ship That Vanished Whole: The Unanswered Mystery of Waratah
The Ship That Vanished Whole: The Unanswered Mystery of Waratah
The southern ocean swallowed a nine-thousand-ton liner, two hundred and eleven people vanished, and not a single piece of wreckage or body was ever confirmed recovered - the silence is the mystery. Built to Lloyd's highest classification and declared by its builders “practically immune” from sinking, the SS Waratah disappeared without a debris field; what happened to a ship described as nearly unsinkable and everyone aboard?
In this episode, we tell the recorded facts of the Waratah’s construction, voyages, and final…
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