Show nn DERELICTS OF THE OCEAN Abandoned Vessels Are a Constant Menace to Shipping Even If our merchant marine is languishing lan-guishing wo still seem able to headline head-line world in derelicts Tho great proportion pro-portion of thorn arc American vessels abandoned In American waters Few aro reported west of tho sixtieth degree de-gree of longltudo or south of tho Bahamas tho Caribbean sea being very free from thorn Tho reports to the hydrographic office last month allowed no fewer than seven of thcso menaces afloat off the coast Thcro was ono off tho New England coast two off the coast of tho Carolinas ono each off tho Virginia and Florida coasts and one still farther out at seaLumber laden derelicts aro tho most troublesome It takes them a longtime long-time to sink Ono such reported In tho early 50s drifted over 7000 miles in 850 days Sho was sighted 38 times during that period showing that she was frequently putting herself In tho way of charted ocean travel |