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The Ghost Schooner: How the Annie Vanished with All Hands
The Ghost Schooner: How the Annie Vanished with All Hands
A Union schooner was found afloat with her hull intact and every sailor gone - the official record gives one word: "explosion." The mystery begins with a captured blockade runner turned Union tender that made multiple seizures of British ships; what exactly happened to all hands in January 1865?
In this episode, we lay out the Annie's documented service life, her uncertain identity, and the string of captures and incidents that preceded her disappearance to ask whether the answers lie in her past or in the single bureaucratic word that…
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