The unsolved mystery of the vanishing of S/V Patanela
I just ran across a video by "Barely Sociable" on the 1988 unsolved mystery of the disappearance of the 20-meter steel schooner "Patenela".
I thought it might be of interest to those of us who had never heard of this.
Re: The unsolved mystery of the vanishing of S/V Patanela
Ghostly 'Message in Bottle' from Vanished Schooner “One of the South Pacific's greatest sea mysteries was the disappearance of the "Patanela", a 19-metre steel schooner, which vanished without trace while approaching Sydney Harbour in November 1988. Now [2008], just under 20 years later, a ghostly 'message in a bottle' has been found from one of the crew on a beach in the Great Australian Bight by a beachcomber...” More ➥https://www.sail-world.com/Australia...urce=google.ca
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