Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals
Subtitle: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: April 6, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780807856178
Subjects: Maritime History; True stories of endurance & survival; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Ships & Shipbuilding - Shipwrecks; History: American; History; Transportation; North Atlantic; North Carolina; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; 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; History - General History; Folklore & Mythology; United States - State & Local - South
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.