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Fifteen Days of Silence: How Hull Lost Fifty‑Eight Men to Ice
Fifteen Days of Silence: How Hull Lost Fifty‑Eight Men to Ice
In this episode, we trace the sequence of departures, radio messages and disappearances that connected three trawlers from Hull to the same stretch of Icelandic water, and follow how policy and practice failed the crews and their families. How did company rules requiring daily reports become a loophole that allowed silence to fester?
Person: Harry Eddom
Date: 4 February 1968
Location: forty miles off the northwest coast of Iceland
Event: liferaft recovered on 13 January and not reported for 15 days
Case: Ross Cleveland, St Romanus…
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