Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-06-22

WERE ON ATLANTIC
Safe Department Gives Details Of
Schooner Deering-Foul Play Sus-
peeted-Messages In Battle:

Washington, June 22.-The mys
terry of the missing ships along the
Eastern Coast of the United State:
and other parts of the Atlantic
Ocean was intensified last night
when the Department of Commerce
issued list showing that 20 vessels
have disappeared within the last
year, without leaving a trace OF
wreckage or any of their crew to
explain the fate of the hips.
Two of the vessels, the Spanish
steamer Yute, bound from Baltimore
! for Dunkirk, and the Russian bark
,Albyon. from Norfolk for Gothen
berg, vanished about the time the
four mastsd American schooner Car
Rroll A. Deering went ashore off the
North Carolina coast.
Nearly all of the 20 ships listed
as missing by the Department OF
commerce were on voyages across
scme portion of the Atlantic.
Reference was made to one of
these vessels by State Department
officials in connection with state
ment issued by the department. this
morning, Applying particularly to
the case OF the schooner Deering,
which was beached with all sails
set on Diamond Shoals last January
after the officers and crews had been
seized, apparently, by. some piratieal
or hostile force. This statement
says:
con January %, 1921, the Amer
ican schooner Carroll A. Deering,
sailing at the rate of about five
miles per hour. passed Cape Lookout
| |lightship, n. c., and on January 81
| it was found few miles north of
that point in such condition that
lthsse. lis. every suspicion of fHul play
THE vessel cleared for Norfo X,
Va, from Rio Janeiro, and put into
Barbados for orders, proceeded on
fits voyage. After passing Cafe
Lookout lightship the vessel was not
again seen until it was foun! as
wreck, and nothing has beer heard
from the members of the crew. The
master of the vessel, Captain War
ormell, is reported to have been
Experienced as a navigator ard very
reliable.
"At the time the Carroll A. Deer
ling passed Cape Lookout lightship a
man on board other than the captain
hailed the lightship and reported
that the vessel had lost both anchors
land asked to be reported to his own
kers. Otherwise the vessel appeared
Ito be in very good condition. A
short time after the schooner passed
the lightsnip steamer, the name
of which cannot be ascertained,
which was passing was asked to stop
Rnd take a message for forwarding
And in spite of numerous attempts
on the part of the master of the
lightship to attract the vessels at
tention no response to his efforts
was received;
con April II, 1921, the following
message was picked up in bottle
near Cape Hatteras:
"Deering captured by oil burning
boat, something like. chaser. Taking
Off everything. handwriting crew,
frew hiding ali over ship. No chance
TO escape. Finder please notify
headHuarters of Deering.
The Carroll A. Deering carried a
motor lifebo&t and dory. but
neither of them have been picked up
Ind no record Of them has been
found. Most of the provisions cloth
ing and supplies had been removed !,
The case of the Spanish steam
ship Yute, cne of the additional
craft which lave never been a.
counted for. is particularly intsres,
ing, according 10 such information
as the Government has.
This vessel, it seems, while of
the North Carolina coast. sent ou
S o S calls, asking for assistanc
ana giving her location. Coast guar