WWII Harbour Disaster: Shady Secrets Spillt ☕️
New book sheds light on WW2 harbour tragedy kept under official cloak of secrecy. Old-school tea 🍵 just dropped about a major L back in WWII. Pilot boat "Hebridean" got wrecked by a freighter, nine dudes iced. The government tried to ghost the whole thing, blaming the pilot and keeping the families
TL:DR
Old-school tea 🍵 just dropped about a major L back in WWII. Pilot boat "Hebridean" got wrecked by a freighter, nine dudes iced. The government tried to ghost the whole thing, blaming the pilot and keeping the families in the dark. Now, a new book is airing all the deets.
The Deets
Aight, listen up, history buffs and conspiracy theorists! There's some sus stuff that went down back in the day during World War II. On March 28, 1940, this pilot boat called the "Hebridean" got clapped by a freighter named SS Esmond. Straight up collision. 💥
Nine souls didn't make it, including six harbour pilots. These pilots were the real MVPs, guiding convoys safe and sound through the harbour. But the tea is, after the boat yeeted into the deep blue, the government tried to cover it all up. They held an inquiry, but kept the findings on the DL. Said it was the pilot's fault. Shady AF, right?
Fast forward to today, a new book called "Broadside: Halifax’s Wartime Pilot Boat Disaster" is spilling all the tea. Apparently, the Hebridean crossed in front of the Esmond during a pilot transfer, and BOOM, it was a whole disaster. The government prioritized wartime secrecy over finding out the real truth, leaving the victims' families hanging with mad uncertainty for years. This book is gonna slap, frfr. 👀
Abbreviations Glossary
| Abbreviation | Full Form |
|---|---|
| Tea | Gossip, info |
| L | Loss |
| Iced | Killed, dead |
| Sus | Suspicious |
| Clapped | Hit |
| MVP | Most Valuable Player |
| On the DL | Secretly, hidden |
| Yeeted | Threw |
| AF | As F*ck |
| Frfr | For Real For Real |