Abandoned Ship or Victim of Piracy? The Carroll A. Deering Mystery (Episode #41)

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On January 31, 1921, The Carroll A. Deering, a five-masted schooner, was found hard aground on the treacherous Diamond Shoals off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The Coast Guard boarded the ship and found the ship deserted, with personal belongings, lifeboats, crucial navigational equipment, and the ship's two anchors missing. Records show that the Deering passed by the Cape Lookout Lightship on January 29, 1921. The lightship's keeper, Captain Jacobson, reported being told by a person on the Deering that they lost their anchors in a storm. The U.S. government launched a comprehensive investigation, deploying ships and aircraft to search for clues. No traces of the crew, their belongings or the lifeboats were ever found.

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EPISODE RESOURCES

• Simpson, Bland (2005), Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering, UNC Press, pp. 55–7, ISBN 978-0-8078-5617-8
• The Mysterious Disappearance of Ghost Ship Carroll A. Deering’s Crew (https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2023/01/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-ghost-ship-carroll-a-deerings-crew/)
• The Ghost Ship of the Outer Banks - U.S. National Park Service. (https://www.nps.gov/caha/learn/historyculture/theghostship.htm)
• Carroll A. Deering: The 'Ghost Ship' Of The Outer Banks (https://allthatsinteresting.com/carroll-a-deering)
• The Vanishing Crew of the Carroll A. Deering: A Maritime Mystery (https://the-line-up.com/unsolved-mystery-carroll-a-deering)
• The Story of the Carroll A. Deering - Hatteras Realty (https://www.hatterasrealty.com/blog/hatteras-history/ghost-ship-hatteras-story-carroll-deering)
• Hampton, Jeff. Ghost ship found off Hatteras 96 years ago today remains an unsolved (https://www.pilotonline.com/2017/01/31/ghost-ship-found-off-hatteras-96-years-ago-today-remains-an-unsolved-mystery/)
• Ghost Ship on the Diamond Shoals, North Carolina - Legends of America. (https://www.legendsofamerica.com/deering-ghost-ship)
• Carroll A. Deering. (https://sunkenshipsobx.com/index.php/lost-ships-obx/late-1910s-to-early-1940s/1919-to-1941/carroll-a-deering)
• (12) The Carroll A. Deering, “Ghost Ship”NC DNCR - ncdcr.gov (https://www.dncr.nc.gov/blog/2016/01/31/carroll-deering-ghost-ship)

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