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Lecture: Jill Farinelli, "The Palatine Wreck: The Legend of the New England Ghost Ship"

Presented by Museums on the Green (operated by the Falmouth Historical Society) at Unknown

Apr 07 2018
Lecture: Jill Farinelli,

Through years of painstaking research, Jill Farinelli reconstructs the origins of one of New England’s most chilling maritime mysteries.

Two days after Christmas in 1738, a British merchant ship traveling from Rotterdam to Philadelphia grounded in a blizzard on the northern tip of Block Island, twelve miles off the Rhode Island coast. The ship carried emigrants from the Palatinate and its neighboring territories in what is now southwest Germany. The 105 passengers and crew on board—sick, frozen, and starving—were all that remained of the 340 men, women, and children who had left their homeland the previous spring. They now ... view more »

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