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26th November, 2021 in Local & Family History, Maritime

MS Pilsudski: The largest shipwreck off the Yorkshire coast

Richard M. Jones, author of Britain’s Lost Tragedies Uncovered, tells the story of MS Pilsudski. Over 80 years ago, on 26 November 1939, the Polish ocean liner Pilsudski was off the coast of Yorkshire at the start of a long journey from the River Tyne to Australia. At the outbrea…