UP man recalls role in 55-year-old mystery – a boat gone missing with 7 aboard

When Ken Thiemann learned his two fraternity brothers disappeared while sailing on Puget Sound, he sprang into action.

Thiemann and a few peers from Washington State University made the nearly 300-mile trip from Pullman to Tacoma in hopes of finding the two men and five other people who were on the boat.

That was 55 years ago, and the sailboat and its passengers would not be recovered…

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