After leaving Liverpool on February 11th, 1893, the SS Naronic vanished without a trace somewhere in the North Atlantic not far from where the Titanic would sink almost 20 years later. Now just a footnote in the history of the White Star Line, the fate of the Naronic remains a confounding mystery and the line’s only ghost ship.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:44 Lifeboats in the North Atlantic
1:33 A Growing White Star Line
3:21 The Final Voyage
4:44 Message in a Bottle
6:16 Theories
9:42 Ghost Ship of the Atlantic