There are ships that sink, and then there are ships that disappear . The SS Michelle falls into the latter category—except, unlike the Mary Celeste , she didn’t just vanish once. She vanished twice.
"She was low in the water, rust the color of dried blood. The nameplate read 'SS Michelle' in faded white letters. There was no one on the bridge. No lights. The portholes were black as skull sockets." ss michelle
A three-week search found nothing. No lifeboats. No debris. The six crewmen were declared dead. The SS Michelle was officially stricken from the registry. On a foggy August morning, a lobster fisherman named Ewan MacTavish was hauling his pots off the coast of St. Kilda. According to his logbook (which I was allowed to view at the Inverness Archives), he saw a vessel emerge from the mist. There are ships that sink, and then there