In the middle of World War II, a small island in Scotland's Hebrides Islands was suffering through war shortages like most of the country.

However, on February 5, 1941, a very fortunate disaster struck the island, and the island's residents couldn't have been happier.

The reverberations from this lucky calamity are still being felt today.

Learn more about the wreck of the SS politician and its incredible cargo on this episode of

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The island of Ariske is part of Scotland and lies off the northwest coast of the main island of

Great Britain.

It's a pretty small island and even today it only has a population of 140 people.

There's only a single paved road in the whole island.

During World War II, like everyone else in Britain, the people of Erskae had to suffer war rationing.

They just had the added difficulty of being on an island requiring everything to be shipped in.

The island changed dramatically on one stormy night in February 1941. A cargo ship called the

SS politician had run aground right offshore of the island. The SS politician was

really nothing special as a ship. It was launched in

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