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Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering

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In the misty first light 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, without a trace of the captain, Willis B. Wormell, or the crew. When, several months later, a bottle used to be 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 these days, the fate of the Deering has remained one of the crucial 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. The use of up to date 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 helps to keep the story of the Deering alive, an apt memorial to the ghost ship and its lost crew.

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