Qualla: HMT Bedfordshire https://qualla.com/hmt-bedfordshire en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: HMT Bedfordshire https://qualla.com/hmt-bedfordshire HMT Bedfordshire: Introduction https://qualla.com/hmt-bedfordshire/ Sam Nutt missed the boat. Detained by local police in Morehead City, North Carolina, the young stoker never made it aboard HMT Bedfordshire for her final patrol on May 10, 1942. By dawn the next morning, every other member of the crew -- all 37 of them -- was dead, sent to the bottom of the Atlantic by a German torpedo. It was the kind of cruel lottery that war deals without explanation: one man held back by a minor brush with the law, and the rest swallowed by the sea off Ocracoke Island.

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/1/6/hmt-bedfordshire-wp/dq16-hmt-bedfordshire-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full HMT Bedfordshire: From Fishing Grounds to Firing Lines https://qualla.com/hmt-bedfordshire/ Bedfordshire began life as a commercial fishing trawler, built by Smith's Dock Company in South Bank, North Yorkshire, and launched on the River Tees on July 17, 1935. For four years she worked the waters out of Grimsby under the flag of the Bedfordshire Fishing Company. Then the...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/1/6/hmt-bedfordshire-wp/dq16-hmt-bedfordshire-torpedo-alley.mp3 0:06 3 full HMT Bedfordshire: Two Torpedoes at Dawn https://qualla.com/hmt-bedfordshire/ On the evening of May 10, 1942, Bedfordshire and HMT St Loman were dispatched from Morehead City to hunt a U-boat reported near Ocracoke Island. The submarine was U-558, commanded by Kapitanleutnant Gunther Krech. Krech spotted the trawlers first. Believing he had been detected, ...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/1/6/hmt-bedfordshire-wp/dq16-hmt-bedfordshire-two-torpedoes-at-dawn.mp3 0:06 4 full HMT Bedfordshire: The Bodies on the Beach https://qualla.com/hmt-bedfordshire/ Three days after the sinking, a Coast Guardsman found two bodies in British uniforms on the shores of Ocracoke Island. They were the first physical evidence that Bedfordshire was gone. Two more bodies later washed ashore on Ocracoke and were buried alongside the first pair in wha...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/1/6/hmt-bedfordshire-wp/dq16-hmt-bedfordshire-the-bodies-on-the-beach.mp3 0:06 5 full HMT Bedfordshire: Forever England https://qualla.com/hmt-bedfordshire/ In 1976, the land beneath the Ocracoke and Hatteras cemeteries was leased in perpetuity to the British government -- small patches of North Carolina sand that are, in a legal and emotional sense, forever England. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission provided headstones for all ...

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