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Maritime Mysteries

Conceptual illustration of an empty nineteenth-century brigantine drifting on grey Atlantic water beneath an overcast sky.

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Mary Celeste: The Ship That Came Back Alone

A brigantine reached Gibraltar without the ten people who had sailed from New York. The surviving inquiry reveals a damaged legend and an unanswered decision.

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Conceptual illustration of a lighthouse on a steep rocky island above rough Atlantic water under a dark sky.

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Flannan Isles: The Light That Went Out

Three lighthouse keepers vanished from a Scottish island in 1900. Their colleagues found an orderly station and a west landing broken by the sea.

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