Emergencies and World Disasters
Bent Pins, Vanished Ship: The Night a Wave Erased 28 Souls
25 min•30 augusti 2026
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Bent Pins, Vanished Ship: The Night a Wave Erased 28 Souls
The bent lifeboat pins found sixty-six feet above the ocean were forced backward by something striking from below - a detail that sat unexplained in the 1978 report until later science gave it a terrifying meaning. Twenty-eight people vanished from a ship described as practically unsinkable, leaving only a distorted Morse fragment, four empty life rafts and that damaged lifeboat - what single force could leave so little trace?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure to the last signals and debris, laying out the ship's design, cargo and the radio exchanges that preceded disappearance to ask the question that drives the story: how did a modern LASH carrier simply disappear?
Ship type: LASH carrier
Departure: Bremerhaven, December 7, 1978
Crew and passengers: 28 people
Last confirmed contact: radio chat at 00:07, December 12, 1978 (position 44°N, 24°W)
Fragmentary Morse report: position 46°15′N, 27°30′W and "fifty degrees starboard"
- The MS München was launched May 12, 1972 and delivered to Hapag-Lloyd in September 1972, yard number 860.
- The ship was on her sixty-second voyage along the same corridor when she left Bremerhaven for Savannah.
- Cargo included steel across 83 lighters, 620 cases of wine, and a replacement reactor-vessel head from Combustion Engineering.
- Radio officer Jörg Ernst spoke for five minutes with Heinz Löhmann at 00:07, giving position 44°N, 24°W and noting bad weather and some damage.
- Three hours later a Greek freighter heard a Morse fragment reporting 46°15′N, 27°30′W and a list of "fifty degrees starboard."
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The bent lifeboat pins found sixty-six feet above the ocean were forced backward by something striking from below - a detail that sat unexplained in the 1978 report until later science gave it a terrifying meaning. Twenty-eight people vanished from a ship described as practically unsinkable, leaving only a distorted Morse fragment, four empty life rafts and that damaged lifeboat - what single force could leave so little trace?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure to the last signals and debris, laying out the ship's design, cargo and the radio exchanges that preceded disappearance to ask the question that drives the story: how did a modern LASH carrier simply disappear?
Ship type: LASH carrier
Departure: Bremerhaven, December 7, 1978
Crew and passengers: 28 people
Last confirmed contact: radio chat at 00:07, December 12, 1978 (position 44°N, 24°W)
Fragmentary Morse report: position 46°15′N, 27°30′W and "fifty degrees starboard"
- The MS München was launched May 12, 1972 and delivered to Hapag-Lloyd in September 1972, yard number 860.
- The ship was on her sixty-second voyage along the same corridor when she left Bremerhaven for Savannah.
- Cargo included steel across 83 lighters, 620 cases of wine, and a replacement reactor-vessel head from Combustion Engineering.
- Radio officer Jörg Ernst spoke for five minutes with Heinz Löhmann at 00:07, giving position 44°N, 24°W and noting bad weather and some damage.
- Three hours later a Greek freighter heard a Morse fragment reporting 46°15′N, 27°30′W and a list of "fifty degrees starboard."
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This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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