记者罗布·戈登（Rob Gordon）1981年的一天在哈利法克斯市中心上滨海街（Upper Water Street）的法院大楼里，偶然听到一名治安官说了一句话，引起了他的兴趣。
Journalist Rob Gordon was at the courthouse on Upper Water Street in downtown Halifax one day in 1981 when he overheard a sheriff say something that piqued his interest.
“哦，我们当时就在船上，你知道的，缴获了几把枪之类的东西，”一名治安官说。
"Oh, we were just on a boat, you know, and we seized a couple of guns and stuff," said one of the sheriffs.
当时为《纪事先驱报》（Chronicle-Herald）报道法庭新闻的戈登，后来以加拿大广播公司（CBC）新闻记者身份退休。
Gordon, who later retired as a CBC News journalist, was covering courts then for the Chronicle-Herald newspaper.
午休时，他来到滨海区查看“阿德琳-C”号（Adeline-C）。这艘长32米、最大宽度7米的拖网渔船于1981年10月31日抵达哈利法克斯，大部分船员已弃船离去。
On his lunch break, he headed down to the waterfront to check out the Adeline-C. The 32-metre trawler with a maximum width of seven metres had arrived in Halifax on Oct. 31, 1981, and was abandoned by most of the crew.
但直到多年后，“阿德琳-C”号在一个价值高达2亿美元的复杂美国贩毒走私行动中所扮演的角色才完全为人所知。该行动以罗德岛州小沿海城市纽波特（Newport）为基地，涉及从中东和远东购买约10万磅大麻和大麻脂。
But it would be years later that the Adeline-C's role in a complex U.S. drug smuggling operation worth as much as $200 million US became fully known. Based out of the small coastal city of Newport, R.I., it involved purchasing around 100,000 pounds of marijuana and hash from the Middle East and Far East.
行动资金来自英属海峡群岛（Channel Islands）的一笔欺诈性银行贷款，这笔钱支付了运作该计划所需的毒品、船只和人力。
The operation was financed by a fraudulent bank loan in the Channel Islands that paid for the drugs, ships and manpower needed to run the scheme. Gordon found the ship tied up near Historic Properties.
戈登在历史建筑群（Historic Properties）附近找到了停泊的船只。船上有两名可疑人物，他们在佛罗里达州登船，随船北上。戈登认识他们，两人欢迎他登船参观。
On board were two shady characters who had joined the ship in Florida and travelled north with it. Gordon knew them and they welcomed him aboard to have a look around. Underneath the floorboards of the engine room were rolled-up marine charts for places like the Mediterranean, Florida and Lebanon, a major player in global hash production in the 1980s.
在机舱地板下，卷着地中海、佛罗里达和黎巴嫩等地的海图，黎巴嫩在1980年代是全球大麻脂生产的主要参与者。“这是一艘走私毒品的船，他们在藏海图，”戈登意识到。
"This is a dope smuggling ship and they're hiding the charts," Gordon realized.
后来，他采访了美国、加拿大和英国的警方，为《纪事先驱报》的几篇报道拼凑出了“阿德琳-C”号的来龙去脉。
He later interviewed U.S., Canadian and British police to piece together Adeline-C's origins for some stories in the Chronicle-Herald.
为了走私毒品而改装 这艘1963年建造的拖网渔船还被加装了其他有利于走私毒品的设备，包括大容量油箱、绞盘、升降机和起重机，这些设备让母船更容易在海上向小型船只转运重型货物。随后，这些小型船只将毒品走私进美国东海岸沿线的港口，目标是美国，可能也包括加拿大。
Retrofitted to smuggle drugs Other features advantageous for drug smuggling that had been retrofitted on the 1963 trawler were high-capacity fuel tanks and winches, elevators and cranes that made it easier for the mother ship to carry out hefty cargo transfers to smaller ships at sea. The smaller vessels then smuggled the drugs into ports along the East Coast, targeting the U.S. and possibly Canada.
新斯科舍省拥有无数与世隔绝的海湾和入海口，长期以来一直是走私者的热门目的地，无论是走私朗姆酒还是毒品。
With its countless isolated bays and inlets, Nova Scotia has long been a popular destination for smugglers, be it rum or drugs.
1982年，哈利法克斯治安官办公室的一名发言人对《多伦多星报》表示，他对这种情况感到困惑不解。
A spokesperson for the Halifax sheriff's department told the Toronto Star in 1982 he was perplexed by the situation.
“船上装有一台1000马力的柴油发动机，那东西能让它轻松穿越任何风浪，”他说。“没人会脑子正常地就放弃这样一艘船。”但对于拥有“阿德琳-C”号的人来说，弃船只是一项微不足道的生意开销。“他们赚的钱多得多，”戈登说。
"She has a 1,000-horse diesel [engine] aboard and that would drive her right smart through anything," he said. "No one in his right mind would walk away from something like that." But abandoning a valuable ship was just a minor business expense for the people who owned the Adeline-C. "What they were making was so much more," said Gordon.
联邦法院下令在1982年底出售“阿德琳-C”号，拍卖定于1983年1月进行，但《多伦多星报》报道称，可能会进行另一轮竞标，因为最高出价仅为7.6万加元，“出自一个捡漏的本地渔夫之手”。最终，买主是一名叫埃里克·范·维宁的荷兰人。当时，他住在阿拉斯加，经营一家贸易站和狩猎业务。
The Federal Court ordered that the Adeline-C be sold in late 1982, with the sale planned for January 1983, but the Toronto Star reported another round of bids might take place because the highest original bid was $76,000 "from a bargain-hunting local fisherman." Ultimately, its buyer was a Dutch man named Erik van Veenen. At that point in his life, he was living in Alaska, running a trading post and a hunting business.
在新斯科舍省的一次购船交易告吹后，一名参与该失败交易的律师向他透露了“阿德琳-C”号的信息。看过船和船上的设备后，他觉得这艘船值100万美元。
After a ship purchase in Nova Scotia fell through, a lawyer involved with the failed transaction tipped him off about the Adeline-C. After seeing the ship and the equipment on it, he figured it was worth a million dollars.
“所以我一见钟情，买下了它，从此就后悔莫及，”现年82岁、居住在德国的范·维宁说。他认为自己花了约10万美元买下了它。
"So I fell in love with the boat and I bought it and I've regretted it ever since," said van Veenen, now 82 and living in Germany. He believes he paid around $100,000 US for it.
一天，当他忙着把船整修好准备开回阿拉斯加时，他像戈登曾做的那样，撬开了机舱的地板。
One day as he worked to get the ship ready to go back to Alaska, he pulled up the floorboards in the engine room, much like Gordon had done.
“我发现了这本巨大的蓝色航海日志，全是手写的，详细记录了这艘船的航程：从阿姆斯特丹到直布罗陀，再到开罗，经由苏伊士运河到达吉布提，然后继续经过新加坡，”范·维宁说。伊朗门事件？
"I came across this big, blue logbook, all handwritten with the complete description of the journey of the boat: Amsterdam to Gibraltar to Cairo through the Suez Canal to Djibouti and then on past Singapore," said van Veenen. Iran-Contra affair?
他认为这艘船不仅仅是用于贩毒，还曾作为伊朗门事件的一部分被用来运送武器。在这起事件中，美国达成协议秘密向伊朗出售武器，以换取由伊朗支持的黎巴嫩真主党扣押的人质获释。
He believes the ship wasn't just into drug running, but was used for transporting weapons as part of the Iran-Contra affair, in which the U.S. made a deal to secretly sell weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of hostages being held by the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
记者在采访、阅读法庭文件和数十篇报纸文章研究此事的过程中，并未发现任何提及伊朗门事件的记载。
While conducting interviews and reading through court documents and dozens of newspaper articles to research this story, the reporter did not come across any references to the Iran-Contra affair.
范·维宁离开哈利法克斯时，计划沿大西洋海岸线向南航行，穿过巴拿马运河，然后向北前往阿拉斯加，但财务困难让计划泡汤。阿德琳- C 号运营成本高昂，加上他的贸易站出售交易告吹，让他陷入财务拮据。
When van Veenen left Halifax, his plan was to sail the ship south along the Atlantic coastline, cross through the Panama Canal and then head north to Alaska, but financial troubles killed the plans. The Adeline-C was costly to run and a sale of his trading post soured, leaving him financially squeezed.
在某个时候，他将船名改为撒切雷- C 号，以纪念他当时的妻子。
At some point, he'd changed the name of the ship to Thackeray C, in honour of his then wife.
范·维宁说，他在一本航海杂志上刊登了这艘拖网渔船的出售广告，下一任买家位于魁北克。
Van Veenen said he posted the trawler for sale in a boating magazine, and the next buyer was based in Quebec.
到 1984 年 10 月，阿德琳- C 号——当时作为撒切雷- C 号运营——曾短暂被指控为一起公海武器转运行动的母船，该批武器据称供爱尔兰共和军使用。
By October 1984, the Adeline-C — now operating as the Thackeray C — was briefly accused of being the mother ship in a high-seas transfer of arms destined for use by the Irish Republican Army.
虽然一名不愿透露姓名的爱尔兰国家警察发言人向戈登做出了这一断言，但一天后的后续报道引述一名加拿大海关官员称，该船自那年 7 月以来一直停泊在魁北克的加斯佩。
While an unidentified spokesperson for the Irish national police made that assertion to Gordon, a followup story a day later quoted a Canadian customs official who said the ship had been in Gaspé, Que., since July of that year.
联邦调查局、国税局调查 1984 年也是联邦调查局、国税局和缉毒局组成的特别工作组开始在罗德岛就毒品行动讯问嫌疑人的一年，据《普罗维登斯日报》1988 年的一篇文章报道。
FBI, IRS investigation The year 1984 also marked the year that a task force involving the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration started questioning suspects in Rhode Island about the drug operation, according to a 1988 Providence Journal article.
据该报报道，调查得到了根西岛警方获取的记录协助，根西岛是英吉利海峡中的一座岛屿，这些记录包含“几乎是整个行动的日记”，详细记录了姓名、日期、成本和预期利润。
The investigation was aided by records obtained by police in Guernsey, an island in the English Channel, which contained "almost a diary of the whole operation," detailing names, dates, costs and expected profits, the newspaper reported.
据称，这起欺诈案的主谋是一名名叫罗伯特·克里斯托弗（克里斯）·默里的罗德岛州居民。
The alleged mastermind behind the fraud was a Rhode Island resident named Robert Christopher (Chris) Murray.
关于毒品行动背后的资金来源，说法不一，但他从芝加哥第一国家银行根西岛分行获得了至少1000万美元的贷款。《芝加哥论坛报》1986年报道称，默里以“罗德岛游艇界”知名人士拥有的游艇作为抵押。
How the money behind the drug operation was obtained Accounts vary, but he obtained at least $10 million US in loans from the Guernsey branch of the First National Bank of Chicago. Murray used yachts owned by people well known "among the yachting fraternity in Rhode Island" as collateral, the Chicago Tribune reported in 1986.
他的说辞是，这笔钱将用于向客户发放抵押贷款，以便他们购买并翻新豪华游艇。
The pitch was that the money would be used to distribute mortgages to clients who would buy and refit luxury yachts.
然而，《芝加哥论坛报》报道称，根据联邦政府的说法，为游艇所有者作担保并公证财务报表的公证人并不存在。据信，这些签名属于默里。所谓资产的拥有者是虚构的。
However, the Chicago Tribune reported that the notary public who vouched for the yacht owners and notarized financial statements did not exist, according to the federal government. Rather, it was believed the signatures belonged to Murray. The people who owned the supposed assets were fictitious.
实际上，这笔钱用于毒品行动，购买的唯一船只将是四艘在荷兰建造的母船，其中一艘从未离开船厂。
In reality, the money was for the drug operation and the only boats purchased would be four mother ships in Holland, of which one never left the shipyard.
在参与该计划的三艘船只中，“阿德琳-C”号被称为“所有船只中最神秘的一艘”，据1984年《普罗维登斯日报》的一篇文章报道。
Of the three vessels that took part in the scheme, the Adeline-C was dubbed "the most mysterious ship of all," according to a 1984 Providence Journal article.
在被购买用于毒品行动之前，它被称为“希尔达-H”号。它于1981年4月13日在荷兰以423,370瑞士法郎（约合21.9万美元）的价格购得。随后，它进行了一些改装，安装了最先进的设备，这对贩毒行动大有裨益。
Before it was purchased for the drug operation, it was known as the Hilda H. It was purchased in Holland for 423,370 Swiss francs — about $219,000 US — on April 13, 1981. It then underwent some retrofitting to have state-of-the-art equipment installed that would prove beneficial in running drugs.
报道该毒品行动的新闻报道主要集中在其他船只——“卡罗琳-C”号和“海童子军”号——的角色上，因为它们访问的港口有详细记录，且它们的部分走私活动被当局挫败。
Newspaper accounts covering the drug operation predominantly focus on the roles of the other ships — the Caroline C and the Sea Scout — as the ports they visited were well documented and some of their smuggling was thwarted by authorities.
阿德琳-C号究竟在何处装载毒品尚不清楚，不同报纸的报道分别提到黎巴嫩和泰国。
It's unclear where the Adeline-C picked up its drugs, with Lebanon and Thailand listed in varying newspaper accounts.
阿德琳-C号如何抵达哈利法克斯 但一旦返回北美，根据《芝加哥论坛报》1986年的一篇文章，阿德琳-C号在新斯科舍省近海的乔治银行与另一艘船会合，卸下了大约12,000磅（约5,443公斤）大麻。
How the Adeline-C ended up in Halifax But once it returned to North America, the Adeline-C met up at Georges Bank off Nova Scotia to unload roughly 12,000 pounds of marijuana, according to a 1986 Chicago Tribune article.
报纸称，其中一半被转移到一艘船上，但由于另一艘名为“Side Show”的船只未按约定出现，剩余的毒品不得不被抛入海中。
While half was transferred to one ship, the newspaper said the remainder of the drugs had to be dumped overboard when another ship, the Side Show, didn't show up.
根据戈登的一篇报道，当阿德琳-C号于1981年万圣节抵达哈利法克斯时，船上仅剩的一件货物是一支步枪、一把手枪，以及一批用于掩盖毒品的柚木。
When the Adeline-C arrived in Halifax on Halloween 1981, the only cargo it contained was a rifle, a handgun and a load of teak that had been used to disguise the drugs, according to one of Gordon's stories.
《普罗维登斯日报》报道，在罗德岛州，约有18人因参与默里的贩毒活动而被起诉，大多数人被判有罪，案件主要在罗德岛州首府普罗维登斯的美国地区法院审理。
In Rhode Island, about 18 people ended up indicted for their role in Murray's drug operation, and most were convicted, with the cases largely tried before the U.S. District Court in Providence, Rhode Island's capital, the Providence Journal-Bulletin reported.
至于所谓的主谋，他从未被绳之以法，因为警方无法找到他的下落。
As for the alleged mastermind, he was never brought before the courts because he couldn't be located.
根据《普罗维登斯日报》1988年的一篇文章，默里因银行欺诈、走私毒品和逃税而在伊利诺伊州、北卡罗来纳州和罗德岛州被通缉。
Murray was wanted in Illinois, North Carolina and Rhode Island for bank fraud, drug smuggling and income tax evasion, according to a 1988 Providence Journal article.
报纸报道，他最后已知的地址在加勒比海的瓜德罗普岛，但他后来逃往西班牙，并化名生活。
His last known address was in Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, but he later fled to Spain and lived under an assumed name, the newspaper reported.
但默里并未过着隐居生活。他租住在一座西班牙别墅里，拥有三辆汽车，其中包括一辆保时捷。
But Murray didn't live a quiet life. He rented a Spanish villa and drove three cars, including a Porsche.
1987年，默里在一辆白色福特汽车中结束了生命。他被射中三枪，他燃烧的车辆在一片桉树林中被发现。
It was in a car, a white Ford, where Murray's life came to an end in 1987. He'd been shot three times and his burning vehicle was found in a grove of eucalyptus trees.
《普罗维登斯日报》报道，从尸体上提取的指纹经华盛顿联邦调查局实验室鉴定，确认了他的身份。
Fingerprints taken from the body and processed by an FBI lab in Washington later confirmed his identity, the Providence Journal reported.
据多个船舶追踪网站显示，阿德琳-C号至今仍在服役，但已更名为“Gesmer I号”。撰写本文时，它位于加勒比海的多米尼克。
The Adeline-C is still alive, but it goes by the name of Gesmer I, according to various ship tracking websites. At the time of writing, it was in Dominica in the Caribbean.
回顾阿德琳号（Adeline‑C）在哈利法克斯的停留时，戈登想起了其他船只。
Looking back on the Adeline-C's time in Halifax, Gordon thinks about other ships.
“那段时间，走私毒品的规模非常庞大……来自各个方向的成吨毒品不断抵达这里，”他说。
"Back around that time, there was an enormous amount of drug smuggling ... tons and tons of dope from all sorts of directions was arriving here," he said.
“而那艘船因为被遗弃，且停在哈利法克斯市中心，显得格外突出。但它肯定不是唯一一艘这样做的船只。”
"And that ship, because it was abandoned, because it was downtown Halifax, it sort of stuck out. But it certainly wouldn't have been the only ship that did that."