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There are two purposes to be served in discussing the disappearances of ships and crews. First, we shall list enough of the available material to show that such phenomena have occurred and, second, we shall see what conclusions can be drawn and how it will serve our space thesis. Yes, Many Many times. More often than is recorded. Ulysses & crew believed suffered same fate. Nes’ "Wanderings thus Were Pure invention. It is well-known sea lore that ships develop a kind of spiritual or psychic entity, or personality, like people, and the strange tale of the Marie Celeste illustrates this as few other histories can. After reading the whole story, it cannot be denied that a malignant curse enshrouded this unhappy vessel. The dramatic disappearance of her crew is vital to our present theme, but it is only one incident in the strange experiences of the brigantine. On the afternoon of December 4, 1872, the British brigantine, Dei Gratia, made a queer discovery, about three hundred miles off the Portuguese coast, which soon tangled seamen, courts and researchers in the hottest controversy in nautical history. Mate Oliver Deveau had raised his glass to windward and kad seen a vessel under short sail, plowing directly toward him. Deveau notified Captain David R. Morehouse, of it, and the skipper "spoke" to the craft in greeting. There was no reply. Sensing some tragedy, Morehouse went abreast the brig to lend it possible aid. Nothing stirred on her deck. Yet this brig had been holding a course as if guided by the skill of a salty helmsman! Deveau and two hands boarded the craft. Official records reveal the baffling sight in his own words: "I found no one on board—I found three and one-half feet of water in the pumps—fore hatch and lazerette hatch both off—binnacle stove in — skylight of the cabin was open and raised—the compass in the binnacle was destroyed. All the Captain's effects had been left — | mean his clothes, furniture, etc. | found the log book in the mate's cabin, on his desk. CAPT. ALWAYS TAKES THE LOG WHEN ABONDONING SHIP. LOG MUST BE TAKEN EVEN IF CAPT. IS DEAD. THEY WERE FROZE & "SWIPED" "There seemed to be everything left behind in the cabin as if left in a hurry, but everything in its place. | noticed the impression in the Captain's bed as of a child having lain there." 3 Clearest Translation. 84 PART THREE History Speaks Disappearing Ships and Crews The following account by Henry S. Galus is from Fate (Vol. X, No. 8): Marie Celeste Had an Extra Compass in Captains Cabin.