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The Hunt for Eagle 56

The Hunt for Eagle 56

On April 23, 1945, the U.S. Navy warship USS Eagle 56 exploded off the coast of Portland, Maine due to a malfunction of the ship's boilers...or so the official report said. A civilian-led dive expedition attempts to discover the lost wreckage and find out what really happened, uncovering fresh clues, startling eyewitness accounts, and a possible cover-up.

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StatusReturning Series
Original NameThe Hunt for Eagle 56
First Air DateSeptember 22, 2019
Last Air DateOctober 6, 2019
Seasons1
Episodes3
Episode Runtime 51min
LanguageEnglish
Original LanguageEnglish
Production CountriesUnited States of America
Production Companies
NetworksSmithsonian Channel
History Rewritten
S01E03

History Rewritten

After four years and countless dead ends, a team of civilian investigators has found pieces of the sunken Eagle 56, the Holy Grail of New England shipwrecks. They want to reveal their discoveries to both the Navy and the families of the warship's crew, but their case is not yet complete.

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