| | [[image:deering2.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Schooner ''Carroll A. Deering'', as seen from the Cape Lookout lightship on January 29, 1921, two days before she was found deserted in North Carolina. (US Coast Guard)]] | | [[image:deering2.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Schooner ''Carroll A. Deering'', as seen from the Cape Lookout lightship on January 29, 1921, two days before she was found deserted in North Carolina. (US Coast Guard)]] |
| − | A five-masted schooner built in 1919, the ''Carroll A. Deering'' was found hard aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near [[Cape Hatteras]], [[North Carolina]] on January 31, 1921. Rumors and more at the time indicated the ''Deering'' was a victim of piracy, possibly connected with the illegal rum-running trade during [[Prohibition]]. Just hours after the Deering passed by the Cape Lookout lightship on January 29, an unknown steamer sailed nearby along the track of the ''Deering'' and ignored all signals from the lightship. It is speculated that the mystery ship was S.S. ''Hewitt'' which disappeared at roughly the same time, and was possibly involved in the removal of the ''Deering'' crew. [http://www.graveyardoftheatlantic.com/Deering/CADeeringHome.html] | + | A five-masted schooner built in 1919, the ''Carroll A. Deering'' was found hard aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near [[Cape Hatteras]], [[North Carolina]] on January 31, 1921. Rumors and more at the time indicated the ''Deering'' was a victim of piracy, possibly connected with the illegal rum-running trade during [[Prohibition]]. Just hours after she passed by the Cape Lookout lightship on January 29, an unknown steamer sailed nearby along the track of the ''Deering'' and ignored all signals from the lightship. It is speculated that the mystery ship was S.S. ''Hewitt'' which disappeared at roughly the same time, and was possibly involved in the removal of the ''Deering'' crew. [http://www.graveyardoftheatlantic.com/Deering/CADeeringHome.html] |