Monday, April 26, 2021

Letter in Bottle Claims All on Board Carroll A. Deering Were Captured, April 26, 1921

Claim Schooner Captured Off Hatteras

By the Associated Press

Norfolk, Va., April 26—Asserting that the five-mast schooner Carroll A. Deering was caputred by an oil buring boat resembling a submarine chaser and that the crew was bound without being given a chance to escape, a note found in a bottle says. The note was found off Cape Hatteras.

Parts of the message are almost undecipherable, and two words are unintelligible. The note was found in a bottle by a man north of Hatteras and was turned over to the coast guard station near there. Tlhe note bears no signature.

The Dearing, Captain Wormell of Bosson, and a crew of 12 went around off Hattaras last Janhuary. All sales were set and not a soul was on board when discovered at daybreak. She was set in the quicksand and disappeared.

From The Hickory Daily Record, Tuesday, April 26, 1921

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