Zebrina

Yet another ship found without its crew was the Zebrina, a 3-masted sailing barge that left a port in Southern England in October 1917 with a cargo hold full of coal bound for Saint-Brieuc, France. When the ship was found in France aground and abandoned but in good shape two days later, it seemed that some kind of conflict related to World War I was to blame - like perhaps the threat of gunfire from a German submarine like the one pictured above. Did the U-boat that threatened the Zebrina force the crew on board, and then retreat when it spotted an Allied ship nearby? Perhaps - some people believe that this hypothetical submarine was later sunken itself, hence the fact that Zebrina's crew was never seen again.