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FOREST AND S 
When Savannah was blockaded, at the outbreak of the 
Civil War, Wanderer was hemmed in, and was finally 
sold to the Confederate Government She was eventually 
captured by the Union forces, and was for a time used as 
a revenue cutter at Pensacola. Then she was sold at 
auction and put into the cocoanut trade, being finally 
wrecked at Cape Henry. 
Previously, however, the New York Y. C. had taken 
action in regard to this flagrant abuse of its flag. At a 
meeting of the club held Feb. 3, 1859, Corrie was ex- 
pelled from the club and the name of Wanderer was 
erased from the club list. 
The greatest mystery of the sea, which has given rise 
to innumerable theories, but which the shrewdest minds 
have been unable to fathom, resulted from a voyage begun 
in this port a number of years ago. Marie Celeste put out 
from Brooklyn, bound for Mediterranean ports. There 
was a large crew and a full complement of officers on 
board, and the captain's wife went along as a passenger. ^ 
About a month afterward, Marie Celeste, with all sail 
set, was found abandoned 800 miles east of Gibraltar. All 
the boats were at the davits, the life belts were all in 
place, there were no evidences of a fight or struggle, and 
the vessel being sound and in good condition, there was 
no apparent reason why the crew should have abandoned 
her, and nothing to show how they got away. 
Marie Celeste was taken to Gibraltar and put in charge 
of the American consul there, and it was hoped that in 
the course of time the crew or some members of it would 
turn up to shed light upon this strange mystery. But 
months passed and no word was heard from them. From 
that day to this not the slightest evidence has ever been 
found to show exactly what happened. The whole crew 
had vanished. A prolonged investigation was made be- 
fore the ship was finally sold, without discovering any- 
thing to clear up the mystery. 
It was shown conclusively that but a short time had 
elapsed between the abandoning and the finding of the 
ship. In the cabin was a sewing machine which the cap- 
tain's wife had been using, and standing on the edge of 
it was a spool of cotton, showing that it had been put 
there since the last preceding storm. As Marie Celeste 
had all sail set, she would have been seriously damaged 
had she been in a storm with no crew on board. The date 
of the last storm in that locality was found to have been 
only three days previous to the date on which the ship 
was picked up. What happened during these three days 
no man probably will ever know. Conan Doyle, the 
creator of Sherlock Holmes, had been so fascinated by the 
mystery of Marie Celeste, that he wrote a book about 
it, attempting to account for the disappearance upon the 
theory that savages from Africa came aboard the ship 
and took the crew into captivity. There was nothing, 
however, to show that any such thing occurred. 
The career of the schooner yacht America after she 
left this port in the spring of 1851 is surprising, aside from 
her winning the Cup forever afterward identified with her 
name. 
Bought by an English nobleman, she remained on the 
other side for years. Then she came batk to America 
and was for a time used as an oyste'r schooner in Chesa- 
peake Bay. She was taken south before the outbreak of 
the war and was scuttled and sunk in Florida waters. 
The yacht was found there by the Federal authorities, 
taken up, repaired, and put into the service. To account 
for her lasting all these years it is said that she had been 
sunk in some kind of metallic sand, which penetrated her 
timbers and acted as a preservative. ^ 
After the war she was auctioned off by the Federal 
authorities and bought in by Gen. Ben Butler, who used 
her as a private yacht. He paid a very small sum for 
her, and it .was alleged in Congress at the time that .the 
auction had not been duly advertised and that the transfer 
of the yacht to Butler had been a job put up between him 
and the Government. 
When Gen. Butler died the yacht was sold again. The 
astonishing thing is that she is still afloat and in fairly 
good condition after the passage of fifty years, more than 
three times the life of the ordinary yacht. 
One of the most extraordinary voyages in nautical his- 
tory came to an abrupt termination in this city a few 
years ago after the participants, who had started out for a 
leisurely cruise around the world, had experienced a lively 
time for over a year. An English lord was commander 
and owner of the craft, and there were several other 
sprigs of rfobility on board. 
The yacht was called Tyburnia. She was in appear- 
ance perhaps the most extraordinary craft that ever en- 
tered the port of New York, at least since Hendrik Hud- 
son on the Half Moon sailed up through the Narrows. 
Tyburnia had been built as a convoy to East Indiamen — 
to look slow and sail fast. She had the lines of a yacht 
on the waterline, but above that looked like a ship of the 
seventeenth century. Her three masts raked forward, .a 
thing few living mariners remember to have seen even in 
early youth. Around these masts were stands of cut- 
lasses under the belaying pins. She was square rigged on 
all masts, with queer little jigger sails that excited the 
wonder of Front and Water streets. 
When Lord Grosvenor got her from his father, the 
Duke of Westminster, for the purpose of this cruise, he 
put carpenters at work on the decks and fitted up a num- 
ber of staterooms, while square windows were cut in the 
sides of the ship from stern to midships. Outside these 
windows there were places for flower pots, while little 
white curtains inside gave Tyburnia the appearance of a 
hospital ship. Costly mirrors and Turkish rugs added 
elegance to her cabin and staterooms. Lord Grosvenor 
had printed a circular for private circulation describing 
Tyburnia, and saying he was about to start on a voyage 
around the world for enjoyment, to last two years, the 
cost to each passenger to be £650. A large consignment of 
wines, liquors and cigars was put into the hold. 
A Mr. Murray and his wife left the ship at the first 
port, saying the times were too lively on Tyburnia, which 
continued her voyage. She put into several ports in the 
Mediterranean, took on consignments of wine, and de- 
parted without paying for it. It was expected that 
eventually she might turn up in New York, and agents 
of European wine houses in this city were notified to be 
bv. the lookout for her, 
A liner came in and reported passing Tyburnia in mid- 
09$a«'tR a li§bj breeze, when, Tyburnia, appearing frQxn 3 
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