The Wreck of the Hesperus is a 1948 American adventure film directed by John Hoffman and starring Willard Parker, Edgar Buchanan and Patricia Barry.

[2] Captain John McReady loses his ship in a storm when he is misled by a fake channel light.

With no shipowner willing to give him another command, he accepts a job offered by George Lockhart, managing a salvaging warehouse.

It turns out, however, that Lockhart is the man responsible for wrecking McReady's ship and others.

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