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A modern three masted sailing vessel leaves the Bay of Gibraltar, a safe resting place on one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, its crew all on board safe and its position logged by AIS.
But in the 150th aniversary year of the mystery of the Mary Celeste, let us go back in time to 1872 when ships were made of wood, powered by wind and sail, and the crew sometimes vanished.
... without any trace.