User:Auric/Hermania (ship)

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Out of service	April 1849
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Hermania was the name of a Dutch schooner that was discovered adrift off the Cornish coast in 1849, sans masts and crew.^[1]

The ships Captain, his wife, child and crew were missing. The lifeboat was still in place.

Later career

The ship was captured by the Fylla off the Oder Banks, while attempting to run the blockade on May 1, 1864. She was eventually released and let proceed to Koblenz.^[2]

In fiction

The ship is mentioned in Castle Falkenstein (role-playing game). The reason given for the disappearance were mermaids.^[3]

References

^ Marshall, Richard (1982). Mysteries of the unexplained (Repr. with amendments ed.). Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-89577-146-9.
^ Michael Embree (2007). Bismarck's First War: The Campaign of Schleswig and Jutland 1864. Helion & Company Limited. p. 274. ISBN 978-1-906033-03-3.
^ Conan-Doyle, Sir Arthur (12 February 1872). "Marie Celeste Board of Inquiry looks to Unseelie for Answer" (game handout). The Times. Retrieved 4 August 2014. [..] mermaids were believed responsible after being sighted in the locality of the disappearances.

External links

[1] Marshall, Richard (1982). Mysteries of the unexplained (Repr. with amendments ed.). Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-89577-146-9.

[Embree2007-2] Michael Embree (2007). Bismarck's First War: The Campaign of Schleswig and Jutland 1864. Helion & Company Limited. p. 274. ISBN 978-1-906033-03-3.

[3] Conan-Doyle, Sir Arthur (12 February 1872). "Marie Celeste Board of Inquiry looks to Unseelie for Answer" (game handout). The Times. Retrieved 4 August 2014. [..] mermaids were believed responsible after being sighted in the locality of the disappearances.

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