In 1895, the crew of a mackerel schooner finds a bottle with a note in it. The bottle is floating off the coast of Massachusetts. The note is from a crewmember of the Falcon, which apparently sunk the previous year. "Our cable is gone ... our rudder gone ... God have mercy on us ..."
The Falcon was lost the year before. If her cable was off and her rudder gone, that means she was careening wildly when the crewmember wrote.....
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