The Zebrina: The Sailing Barge Found Empty in 1917

A watercolour by Henry Scott Tuke of a three-masted barque at anchor in an estuary — the Zebrina was a schooner-rigged three-masted sailing barge of similar type

About 5 min readIn October 1917 the three-masted sailing barge Zebrina left Falmouth for Saint-Brieuc with five men and a cargo of coal. Two days later she was found aground on the French coast — undamaged, her galley fire still burning, her table laid — with no crew aboard.