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The Mystery of the Mary Celeste,
by Colin Wilson.
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A ship beset by ill luck, and finally abandoned by her crew in a hurry, found 700 miles away by another ship a few days later, sailing without anyone on board ....
" ... Convinced that the whole ship was about to explode, Briggs ordered everyone into the lifeboat. In his haste, he failed to take the one simple precaution that would have saved their lives – to secure the lifeboat to the Mary Celeste by a few hundred yards of cable. The sea was fairly calm when the boat was lowered, as we know from the last entry in the log, but the evidence of the torn sails indicates that the ship then encountered severe gales. We may conjecture that the rising wind blew the Mary Celeste into the distance, while the crew in the lifeboat rowed frantically in a futile effort to catch up. The remainder of the story is tragically obvious."
Incidentally, this incident up written into a story, by a 23 year old doctor while waiting for patients, as he put up his nameplate in a new place, settling into a new practice, launched the career of Arthur Conan Doyle, for whose further works the magazine offered thirty guineas instead of the regular three from then on.
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December 08, 2021 - December 08, 2021.
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