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Sunk Without Trace

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Between 1961 and the end of last year Lloyd's posted 2,766 ships as missing. Despite modern ship construction and improved methods of navigation and communications 74 ships disappeared without trace. They left no radio message, no survivors and no wreckage.
IAIN CRAWFORD talks to the men whose job it is to keep track of the world's shipping and asks how these tragedies occur. Producer JOHN KNIGHT

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Talks:
Iain Crawford
Producer:
John Knight
Source: Radio Times

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