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The Fishing Trawler That Vanished: 37 Men, One Island Grave
The Fishing Trawler That Vanished: 37 Men, One Island Grave
A small patch of British soil on a North Carolina barrier island marks the final resting place of four sailors while thirty-one of their shipmates lie nowhere at all - a fishing trawler converted for war, a torpedo strike at 05:40, and one man saved only because he spent the night in a police cell. Why did a vessel built for the North Sea become an Atlantic grave, and how did enemy logs become the only full account of that dawn?
In this episode, we tell who the men were, how the HMT Bedfordshire came to patrol the Outer Banks, and…
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