OCR Text |
Show SHIP MYSTERY LQNGJHNSO LVED Captain and Men Disappear At Sea and Traces Are Entirely Lacking 1 BK Al CRT. N C. Mar. 7 A grim 'spectre stood unseen nt the helm of the BsAb'butlt hooner Carroll A leirl,ig when ahe cleared Rio de J.in-. J.in-. in. h.'irhor last I e. ember. riding hKhl. :ind winged out to sea lth Norfolk Nor-folk port to make, v i tho Barbadm s. The ship was tough and trim from truck to keelson, sound throughout and no more than .WOOtOnSd to the j ways of the sea by her year Off the building stocks A stout New KugUud shipmaster, weathered to all the gales Lbat blow trod her ijuai terdeck. Above him clean, sound oanvas towered away jto the five great masts that drave ! more than a thousand ton. through the water on airs that no more than fanned the cheek. si MKEB GRAVB1 kJUD Today she Is "The Gbost.hip of Diamond Dia-mond Shoals." her bones bleur lilng In the araveyard Of the Atlantic." her m i- er and crow vanished. no man I now. where or why- She has added one more page to the sea's great book I of mysten raid tribute to the grim power of th deep that on OOCSSlOO strlUis through ull thut men and science can do to .hackle it, to claim its own. There te no record of the Deerlngs last voyage. She sailed full handed, thrilling with life and power A month later lbs staggered blindly shoreward, alone bv night, to rum her way to h.r last berth on the shoal. No hand l l.ded lier Wile. . no lean .stood ?) clack a aheet or spill tho wind from her tortured canvas to ease hi deth i struggle. She was a dead Sblp -N'o 'living thing saw her end. SHIP 18 ii 8 1 km n Sunset wan drawing down the gloom of night on a Sunday evening when patrols from the life-saving .cation looked their last for the day across the storm fretted shoals The surges ran white ovor the lurking menuce of the sands, hcadstoned with relic of many a stout craft. But there was -ill in sight The wide reach of yond was cmyi) in the gather- H ing In the morning, the Deering lay be- ifH fore them in the grip of the sand, her canva. set nnd slatting to ribbon. In th.- wind, her boat .ear hammering overside, her boat, and her people H v, unshed. All d th. life savers sought io reach her Som. of h.r J ' row might still be uboard. Time and again UtOl WOTS bOOt.n back by wind 1 and sea and It was a day later before iH it was known posltlveh that she was git OOtpt ship, stripped of all life SO for. -Io n.o plunged into ihe death iH so i k n i oi sfD There was no mark on her to ahow H whs the had beun ubandoned. She WM .apparcntlv undamaged until the wind land aa and sand had their will of lur and llowlf ripped her timber from timber, on the Mhoal I'nder tha Idrlve of her sail the ship was burled iH US7UDQ 'lie outsit hi iuk u iun iii h out. And in the weeks that hae passed not a word haa come to tell what became of her crew- Nobody washed up; no remnant of life boat or lothlng come ashore. Thi batten d hulk of the big vessel. forlorn with toppling masts and grimy. torn canva-. I he hull filling with sand through opened seams, stands a ghostly monument to ihe unconquer.d power of the sea. |