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Ghost Ships and Sea Legends, Volume 2: Five Atlantic Mysteries
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| Open water has always made uncertainty part of a sailor’s life. Volume 2 of Ghost Ships and Legends of the Seas examines five vessels and apparitions whose stories combine maritime disasters, disappearances, strange encounters and generations of retelling across the Atlantic world.
The Ellen Austin is remembered through a mystery involving an abandoned ship and a vanished prize crew. HMS Eurydice brings a documented Royal Navy disaster into later reports of a phantom vessel, while Rhode Island’s Palatine Light connects Block Island history with coastal folklore. The merchant vessel SV Zebrina and New Haven’s spectral ship, the Fellowship, complete the episode. Each story has a different relationship to the historical record, so the program separates known voyages and losses from the supernatural elements added afterward. The result is a focused companion to the first ghost-ships volume. |
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