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...storm struck her, disabled her wireless and motors, blew her across Tunis toward Sicily. Thence the Dixmude's trail sprawled octopus-like with conflicting "eyewitness" reports. First authentic trace occurred nine days later when Sicilian fishermen pulled in with their nets the body of du Plessis de Grenedan, the Dixmude's commander. No other body has been found. But tribesmen have insisted that on the sixth day after the storm they saw the Dixmude, obviously out of control, drifting south over the centre of the Sahara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Ghost Ship | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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