Either the History Channel or the Discovery Channel did a show dedicated to the Yarmouth Castle. It included 8mm movie footage shot by passengers on the Bahama Star. It's possible to see the figures of passengers running past open hatches, backlit by the flames... a terrible sight, as GL says. I can only imagine the terror and shock your parents must have felt, having seen actual footage of the fire and the passengers. I believe the show said that the Castle's Captain never Mastered a ship again, abandoning the crew and passengers to save himself effectively ended his career, as it should have, at the very least.
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