Message in a bottle
Long-duration events

Message in a bottle

Section Title: Long-duration events
Table Section Text: None

Sender	Date launched	Place launched	Date found	Place found	Duration (years)	Ref.

Chunosuke Matsuyama, seaman	1784	Island in Pacific	1935	Hiraturemura, Japan	151

German sailing barque Paula	1886-06-12	Indian Ocean, 950 km off Western Australia	2018-01	Near Wedge Island, Western Australia	131.6

George Parker Bidder, Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom	1906-11-30	North Sea	2015-04-17	Amrum, Germany	108

Karl Weyprecht, co-leader, Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition	1874	Lamont, Franz Josef Land, Russia s	1978-08	Lamont, Franz Josef Land, Russia	104

Richard Platz	1913-05-17	Baltic Sea	2014-03	Baltic Sea near Kiel	101

Glasgow School of Navigation	1914-06-10	Near Scotland	2012-04	East of Shetland	98

Selina Pramstaller, Tillie Esper	1915	Harsens Island, Michigan, U.S.	2012	Harsens Island, Michigan, U.S.	96

Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen	1914-04-25	Near Scotland	2006-12-10	Near Shetland	92

Willi Brandt, roofer, age 18	1930-03-26	Goslar, Germany s	2018	Goslar Cathedral roof	88

Carl Ott (business owner)	1930-05-20	Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. s	2017-02	Construction site	86

Thomas Hughes, WWI soldier	1914-09-09	English Channel	1999-03	Essex, River Thames	84

"Flying Squad" joinery team	1934-07-16	Viewforth, Edinburgh s	2016-11	Wall of building	82

Navy of Czarist Russia	1913-07	Sea of Okhotsk, Russia	1995	Near Cordova, Alaska	81

(undetermined)	1935	Southampton Guildhall, U.K. s	2016	Southampton Guildhall, U.K.	81

Herbert E. Hillbrick	1936	P&O cruise ship	2012	Ninety Mile Beach, NZ	76

Victor Elliott, age 13	1944-04-25	Ralston, Oklahoma	2017-11-11	Fort Smith, Arkansas	73

Lt. Col. Eugene J. McNamara	1948	Grand Hotel, Yokohama s	2016	New Grand Hotel	68

Auschwitz prisoners, age 18–20	1944-09-09	Near Auschwitz camp s	2009-04	Wall of bomb shelter	64

WHOI	1956-04-26	South of Nova Scotia	2014-01-20	Sable Island	57

U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries	1962-05	Gulf of Mexico	2019-01	Padre Is. Nat. Seashore, Texas	56.5

NOAA's NEFSC	1959-09-19	Atlantic, off Massachusetts	2013-12-22	Martha's Vineyard, Mass.	54

Paul Walker, geologist	1959-07-10	Ward Hunt Island, N. Canada s	2013	Ward Hunt Island, N. Canada	54

German Antarctic Expedition	1903	Btw. Kerguelen Is., Tasmania	1955	New Zealand	52

Paul Tsiatsios, motel owner	1960+	New Hampshire, U.S.	2011	Turks and Caicos	51

Construction workers	1967-05-19	Toowoomba, QLD, Australia s	2016-09-08	Embedded in concrete	49

NOAA Fisheries	1966	Bristol Bay, Alaska, U.S.	2013	Cold Bay, Alaska, U.S.	47

"Donkeyman" James Robertson	1970-09-16	North Sea (assumed)	2017-01	Norderney, Germany	46

Girl, age 6	1971-09-06	Indian River Bay, Delaware, U.S.	2016-04-22	Del. Seashore State Park	44

Boy, age 14	1971-01-15	Cove Bay, Aberdeen, U.K.	2015	Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire	44

Two junior high school girls	1975	Washington state, U.S.	2015-04-04	Gulf of Alaska, U.S.	40

Boy, age 16	1980-05-13	Albany, W. Australia	2016-06	Eucla, W. Australia	36

Vacationer	1981-06-10	Fernandina Beach, Florida	2017-06-17	Little St. Simons Island, Georgia	36

School; Forfar, Scotland	1987 (est)	North Sea	2017-09-29	Key Largo, Fla. U.S.	30

Girl, age 8	1988-09-26	Edisto Beach, South Carolina	2017-10	Sapelo Island, Georgia	29

Boy, age 12	1989-07	Detroit River	2017-07-12	Amherstburg, Ontario	28

"Jonathan"	1985	Nova Scotia (purported)	2013-04-17	Croatia	28

Sentence(s)

In March 2014, a bottle was found on the Baltic Sea near Kiel recovered dated May 17, 1913 and signed by a Richard Platz.

final_sentence: In March 2014, a bottle was found on the Baltic Sea near Kiel recovered dated May 17, 1913 and signed by a Richard Platz.