The headline as I read the article was "How I Solved the Century-Old Mystery of a Miraculous Shipwreck Survivor", but it doesn't actually detail _how_ the mystery was solved. They talked to a couple different people, found an old newspaper clipping, but the crucial
> Davidson was picked up by a lifeboat and taken to the Storstad, which survived the collision.
The actual meat of the article, doesn't have any clear source. I guess it might've come from the mentioned piece in "St. Thomas Journal", but it's not exactly clear.
Cool story, but not exactly the "How I solved a mystery" that you'd expect from the headline.
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