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Why Captain Merrihew Didn't Sound the Depths - 424 Dead
Why Captain Merrihew Didn't Sound the Depths - 424 Dead
A single navigational choice turned a routine emigrant crossing into one of the deadliest maritime disasters in Irish waters: 424 people drowned while the ship’s mizzenmast still flew the colors. How could an experienced captain who had carried nearly five hundred souls across the Atlantic before skip the one measurement he knew would have saved them?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure in Liverpool to the wreck off County Wexford, following the ship, its captain, and the passengers; what happened around…
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