Elizabeth City, Dec. 31--More than a thousand cases of liquor found aboard the two-masted British schooner "Messenger of Peace," which stranded on Ocracoke bar Friday, resulted in the seizure of the vessel by the crew of coast guard station 188 at Portsmouth, N.C., Friday night. The "Messenger of Peace" will be held pending the action of the prohibition commissioner at Raleigh and the collector of customs at Wilmington, both of whom were immediately notified.
The seized schooner's clearnance papers showed that she had left Nassau for Halifax. the master of the vessel claimed he had put in at Ocracoke inlet to obtain water and provisions when the stranded vessel was boarded by the coast guard station crew.
The "Messenger of Peace" stranded August 13 at almost the same spot where her latest mishap occurred. Remarks of her crew led to a search of the schooner by coast guard officials at that time, but no liquor was fund. the owner and master then was A. Calman of Nassau.
From the front page of The Charlotte News, January 1, 1922
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