In this episode we discuss HMS Hermes, the first vessel designed explicitly as an aircraft carrier.

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Sources:

"Hermes". World War II Database. Osprey Publishing. https://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=160

"HMS Hermes I: Fleet Aircraft Carrier." Index of Naval Aircraft Carriers.

Symonds, Craig L. World War II at Sea: A Global History. Oxford University Press, 2018.

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This week it's the story of the cargo vessel MV Rema, lost in the North Sea in April 1998.

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Sources:

Flooding and sinking of dry cargo vessel Rema with loss of 4 lives. https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/flooding-and-sinking-of-dry-cargo-vessel-rema-off-whitby-england-with-loss-of-4-lives

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This week we have the saga of the SS Springfjord, which survived World War Two unscathed but could not escape the wrath of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Sources:

Handy, Jim. Gift of the Devil: A History of Guatemala. South End Press, 1984.

Handy, Jim. Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944 - 1954. University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

Prados, John. The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness. The New Press, 2017.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101105080457/http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000919986/DOC_0000919986.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/1954/07/01/archives/the-text-of-dulles-speech-on-guatemalan-upset.html

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