Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals
Subtitle: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780807827499
Subjects: Maritime History; True crime; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; North Carolina - Local History; Shipwrecks; History; Transportation; United States - State & Local - General; History: American; North Atlantic; Ships & Shipbuilding - Shipwrecks; History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); shipwreck; Diamond Shoals; disappearance; Outer Banks; Lula Wormell; Herbert Hoover; Lawrence Richey; merchant ships; pirates; Christopher Columbus Gray; Gardiner Deering; boatbuilding; Prohibition; rumrunning; W. O. Saunders; Elizabeth City, North Carolina; Hatteras Island; Carroll Atwood Deering; Captain Willis Wormell; Carroll A. Deering (Schooner); North Carolina
First sentence: Off Carolina, where the great warm river of the Gulf Stream flirts with the cold southbound current from Labrador before spurning it and heading for open ocean, three great capes sculpted by the Stream's eddies ripple seaward and reach just beneath the waves for miles in shoal waters known the sailing world 'round and long called Frying Pan, Lookout, and Diamond.