 The ship has entered Irish folklore, and her unexplained disappearance and unexpected reappearance are still the subject of a number of conspiracy theories.The facts, so far as they can be ascertained, are quite straightforward.In the autumn of 1695 a merchant galley called the "Ouzel" (meaning blackbird) sailed out of Ringsend in Dublin under the command of Capt Eoghan Massey of Waterford.