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Have to admit I've never heard of this until now. But it's been around a very long time. And it's very strange. Must be all those fairy lights...
Drunk Broadcaster's Incoherent News Report From the 1930s Goes Viral
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According to a poster on Twitter, here's why he lost sight of the ships and declared them gone on air.
"Apparently the fleet disappeared because he dropped some of his paperwork, bent down to pick it up and his chair revolved and he was looking out of the wrong window. The fleet was now behind him."