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Forty-seven men vanished. The sea off Sable Island in December 1942 kept everything
Forty-seven men vanished. The sea off Sable Island in December 1942 kept everything
Forty-seven men were aboard when a torpedo struck at 09:49 on 3 December 1942 and no bodies, no wreckage, no final minutes were ever returned to the surface. The ship sank near 43°N, 58°17′W - roughly 200 nautical miles southeast of Sable Island - and the only record left is a position on a chart: who were those men and how did a working ship built in 1919 end up alone in that water? What decisions and mechanical limits led to a ship that had survived falling behind once to be lost without trace the second…
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