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Radio Shropshire,10 Apr 2025,3 mins

The ghost boat

Secret Shropshire

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The 鈥楿sk鈥, a sunken vessel in the Shropshire Union Canal is said to be haunted by a boatman who skippered her and was killed in an accident nearly one hundred and fifty years ago. From that very day, the Usk was doomed, an unlucky, haunted boat that many boatmen would not work aboard. She was finally abandoned and sank on the Montgomery canal near Crickheath, probably in the early 1890s and there she lies to this very day, a ghostly reminder of a tragedy long ago. 麻豆社 Radio Shropshire's Genevieve Tudor tells the story of Shropshire鈥檚 ghost boat.

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