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Show Ocean Derelicts Where a vessel will drift, once her crew has abandoned her, and how long she will stay afloat, are problematical. prob-lematical. She may sink In a few days and she may float for years. The American schooner Myer G. Sargent appears to hold the long distance dis-tance record for floating as a derelict dere-lict Abandoned for some reason by her crew off Cape Hatteras she was next observed 600 miles to the eastward, east-ward, but soon after she was sighted sight-ed near the spot where her crew left her. Still later she was seen near the coast of Madeira. With the wind, tide and current to help her she had crossed the Atlantic at least three times before she disappeared forever. All through her wanderings she was, of course, a potential menace to every ship that neared her wavering course. |