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	Podcast:		Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
	Episode:		Disaster Favours the Daring: Shipwreck at Honda Point
	Category:		History
	Duration:		00:39:57
	Publish Date:		2025-08-29 04:01:00
	Description:		In 1923, legendary navigator Captain Dolly Hunter led a squadron of warships into America’s worst peacetime naval catastrophe. The mission was supposed to be a speed trial, a display of the squadron’s skill. But it ended in a maritime pile-up, with some destroyers stranded on rocks, others sinking fast, and deadly oil leaking into the Pacific Ocean. How? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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