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When an Ironclad Went Vertical: The 1893 Rusalka Mystery
When an Ironclad Went Vertical: The 1893 Rusalka Mystery
The wreck of Rusalka was found with its stern rising thirty-three meters above the seafloor and its bow buried to nearly half the ship’s length - perfectly preserved and showing the rudder hard to starboard. One hundred and seventy-seven men vanished on a September storm in 1893, and the wreck’s frozen details forced investigators to question the 1894 inquiry. What did that turned rudder mean, and why was a coastal ironclad on an open-water passage?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Rusalka’s troubled construction…
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