The SS Dumaru is poorly-built, ugly, and crewed by “bad men of the sea”. When she’s requisitioned for the war effort by the US Navy, her run of bad luck becomes a sprint to disaster.

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CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

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