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Midnight Vanish: The St. Lawrence Night a Warship Disappeared
Midnight Vanish: The St. Lawrence Night a Warship Disappeared
The St. Lawrence River was supposed to be safe, but on September 7, 1942, two white columns of water rose astern of a convoy and forty men vanished with almost no trace - only one body and a single fragment washed ashore weeks later. What happened to HMCS Raccoon in the seven hours and fifteen minutes between those explosions and the first question of where she had gone?
In this episode, we tell the story of HMCS Raccoon from her launch as the private yacht Halonia to her conversion and final patrol as a Royal Canadian Navy escort…
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