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A Ghost From Sailing’s Past

esearchers have announced the discovery of the wreck of the schooner barge in Lake Huron, sitting upright with masts and rigging still intact, and with the lifeboat that could have saved her crew still lashed to the ship’s stern. It was this mistake—failing to untie the painter—that led to five men’s deaths on September 26, 1894, when the ship sank so quickly it dragged the lifeboat down as it plunged

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