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Post by Amityville Rock on Dec 18, 2003 12:28:17 GMT -5
"Hawarden Bridge" had an interesting history. It was the first ship to enter Dunkirk Harbour after the liberation of the town. After returning to duties on the River Dee, she was sold to a Barbados company in 1967. Eleven years later she was found abandoned and adrift - her crew lost and engine flooded - a victim of the "Bermuda Triangle." She was towed to Miami, the fate of her crew remains a mystery to this day. Source: www.angelfire.com/fl/shotton/history12.html |
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Post by Amityville Rock on Dec 18, 2003 12:29:27 GMT -5
Gian from Everyone.net email
s.s. Hawarden Bridge
Posted 6-28-2002 05:45
An interesting case, Rock, but still nebulous. Lloyd's responded today to my request for information. The reply, signed by Ruth Barriskill, of Guildhall Library, quotes one of the Lloyd's Weekly Casualty Reports entered on April 3 dated March 14, 1978 by the US Coast Guard: "Cargo holds dry/empty. Two liferafts missing, no gyro, magnetic compass removed, no communications equipment, engine room flooded."
She laments to me that none of their reports solve the mystery or explain the missing crew or even their number. I have to get the rest, for a price (they are hurting for money). She did not even tell me its course. But it was owned by a Barbados firm. I'll send the dough and get more info.
Sounds like they took the time to get off the boat properly, though she wasn't sinking. I don't know how to qualify "no communication equipment." Either they had none or they took it with them. They must have realized the freighter wasn't going to sink, but they never went back. A vessel that large doesn't drift too fast for men in a life raft/boat. Sounds like someone could have sabotaged the engine room, but there seems no reason. No cargo, unless of course it was lifted.
Quite confusing. You should post on here the original story, as you found it.
Gian
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