FACTUAL
14 October 2006
Saturday 14 October 2006 20:02-21:00 (Radio 4 FM)
The last few days of December 1951 marked the beginning of a 14-day period in which the people of the British Isles and the United States were spellbound by a dramatic event taking place 350 miles off the coast of Falmouth. It involved a damaged American freighter The Flying Enterprise - whose Master Captain Kurt Carlsen refused to leave his sinking ship - and British mate Kenneth Dancy, aboard the salvage tug Turmoil that tried to save her.
Ivan Howlett tells the gripping story of adventure and heroism during one of the worst storms in living memory, and uncovers the mystery of what The Flying Enterprise was carrying as he talks to the diver who discovered the wreck.
