Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. DeeringUNC Press Books, 14/10/2002 - 256 من الصفحات In the misty dawn of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guardsman on watch at the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station sighted a mighty five-masted schooner, all sails set, wrecked on the treacherous Diamond Shoals. Rescuers rushed to the ship, but when they arrived they found the Carroll A. Deering deserted, with no trace of the captain, Willis B. Wormell, or the crew. When, several months later, a bottle was found on a nearby beach, purportedly containing a note from a crew member who ascribed the schooner's fate to its capture by pirates, a sensational panic in international shipping ensued. The captain's daughter successfully lobbied for a federal investigation, but months of inquiry failed to turn up either the missing crew or a reason for the ship's demise. To this day, the fate of the Deering has remained one of the greatest mysteries of maritime history. Bland Simpson assembles the known facts into a compelling reconstruction of the Carroll A. Deering's final voyage and its baffling aftermath. Using contemporary sources including newspapers, FBI reports, ship's logs, and personal and official correspondence, he weaves together historical narrative with the voices of key participants in the drama. Simpson's haunting chronicle keeps the story of the Deering alive, an apt memorial to the ghost ship and its lost crew. |
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Part One The Shoals | 1 |
Part Two The Ship | 33 |
Part Three The Search and Beyond | 69 |
Epilogue | 215 |
Chronology | 227 |
From the Deck Logs of the Light Vessels at Frying Pan Shoals Lookout Shoals and Diamond Shoals January 2331 1921 | 233 |
Acknowledgments | 239 |
Illustration Credits | 243 |
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505 East Fearing aboard anchors April Atlantic Ballance Barbados Bath beach bottle letter boys Bridgetown Buxton Cape Hatteras Captain Wormell Christopher Columbus Gray coal Coast Guard Station Commerce craft deck Deering Deering’s crew Diamond Shoals East Fearing Street Father Fearing Street Fearing Street Elizabeth February five-masted G. G. Deering Company Gray’s Hampton Roads handwriting Harpswell Hatteras Island Hatteras Light heard Herbert Hewitt Hoover Independent 505 East January June Kennebec River knew Knickerbocker Lawrence Richey Light Vessel lighthouse lightship Lookout Shoals Maine Maine Maritime Museum master mate McLellan miles mystery navy never night Norfolk North Carolina Ocracoke Outer Banks Outer Diamond piracy pirates port River sailors schooner schooner Carroll Secretary Seminole ship shore steamer Street Elizabeth City Stuart Gillard surf surfboat surfmen tell thing U.S. Coast Guard w. o. saunders Offices Washington weather wind word Wormell’s would’ve wreck York