Captain Willis B. Monwell, 66, has been on this route for 25 years, and this time he commanded 10 sailors. However, who would have expected that this would be the last voyage of Dilling?
On the afternoon of October 29th, 65438/KLOC-0, a signal ship off the coast of North Carolina received a message from Dilling that it had lost two anchors in a recent storm. In addition, the route is correct, the time is not wrong, and there seems to be nothing unusual. It is sailing at full speed.
Soon, a violent northeast wind came and blew all night.
At dawn, the coast guard on Auckland Island found the Dilling stranded four miles from the diamond sandbar, but it was still full of sails. The patrolman immediately boarded the speedboat to investigate. However, the violent waves near the sandbar prevented the patrol boat from getting very close and had to return half a mile away.
Three days later, the weather cleared up and the patrol officers boarded the "Lindy". However, what is presented to others is a strange sight. The only living creatures on board are the two cats kept by the crew.
On the dining table of the salon, there is a meal for seven people that has not been touched. All the luggage, clothes and personal belongings in the cabin are gone, and so are the lifeboats on board.
Patrol personnel believe that an experienced, honest and reliable old captain, with a very capable sailor, can't abandon the ship without giving any signal. Stranger still, everyone knows that acting on the sandbar at night is tantamount to suicide. But why should they take the risk?
Of course, if they don't go to the sandbar and the vast sea, where can they go? Maybe it was a robbery? But there was no sign of struggle, gunfight or struggle throughout the ship. The patrol immediately informed the ships sailing nearby to pay attention to the search. The result is still no trace.
Three months later, the mystery became complicated again. Christopher Gray, a resident of North Carolina, claimed to have found a note put in a bottle by the crew of the Dilling on the beach in Basten. It said, "The Dilling was captured by a destroyer-like fuel ship, and all the sailors were handcuffed. If you get this news, please inform the headquarters. "
Headquarters received the news, of course, to verify, to prove the authenticity. It is generally believed that this note may have been written by Bates, an engineer on board. It was confirmed by Bates' mother, owner and three handwriting experts that it was indeed written by Bates.
After a five-month investigation, Herbert Hoover, Minister of Commerce, announced: "After a detailed investigation by the court and the Ministry of Commerce, it was proved that this clue was purely fabricated by Christopher Gray."
However, gray's attitude towards this accusation is faint. He said slowly, "I showed you the note anyway." This attitude always makes people feel a little strange.
Since then, Lindy has been floating and rotting on the diamond sandbar. Day after day, year after year, whenever the northeast wind blows, the ship will always drift with the tide.
Another thing is that in early June 1955 10, the Jowett sailed from the West Samore Islands to Tokelau, 270 nautical miles away.
Suddenly, "Jowett" lost contact with the outside world, and the sea and air reconnaissance forces jointly searched and found this ship drifting in the Pacific Ocean in the air search of195510. Half of the ship was flooded, leaving only one engine. Because the side of the ship is surrounded by cork, the ship will not sink.
Captain Miller and his crew should know this, but there is really no one on board. Why did they abandon the ship? Wouldn't it be safer on the boat if you ran for your life? One thing is puzzling: there are some indications that ship abandonment is obviously divided into two stages. Two men stayed on the boat, trying to keep out the water or the sun with tarpaulins. Who are these two people?
With many mysteries, the Jowett was towed to the Fiji Islands. Later, after the water was drained, the investigators began to study what had happened on the ship for more than a month.
First of all, they found that the radio system of Jowett broke down irretrievably soon after it went to sea. Later, it was found that a water pipe under the deck of the boiler room burst, causing water to enter the ship. They also found some blood-stained bandages. Obviously, someone is injured, and the injury is not light.
Presumably, Captain Miller was injured, leaving a crew member to take care of him. Others, including crew and passengers, boarded the lifeboat and abandoned the ship to escape. This assumption seems unreasonable. Knowing that the ship will not sink, it is really unconventional to order so many people to risk their lives to save their lives.
If we take a step back and think this guess is correct, what will happen next? Both of them died in the sea? Or killed by pirates? Because there is something missing from the boat, it is suspected that it was robbed, but it makes sense to throw it into the sea in order to reduce the weight.
However, no matter how to guess, the disappearance of the captain, crew and passengers on the Jowett is really unusual. No trace, no body, no sign of a lifeboat. Will people and things disappear from the earth's surface for no reason?
Strange unmanned ships often appear on the vast ocean. There are food, fresh water, life-saving equipment and even a radio station on board, but the people on board don't know where they are.
Although people have made a detailed investigation of these ships, they often have not reached a satisfactory conclusion until today. They drift with the tide on the sea, sometimes appearing and sometimes not appearing. People usually call them "ghost boats" or "drifting boats". In recent 1200 years, "ghost ship" or "drifting ship" incidents can be said to be common occurrences.
18811February 12, the American fast sail gunboat "Ellen Austin" found a schooner drifting in the North Atlantic. There seems to be no one up there. So Captain Griffin ordered his assistant to take a look in a small boat. The assistant took some sailors near the schooner. After boarding the ship, he saw that everything was all right on board. The goods, fruits and bottled wine in the cabin didn't move at all, but there were food and fresh water, but no one was there.
Captain Griffin decided to tow the sailboat away as a trophy. He persuaded several sailors to stay on board and sail with his warships. After walking for two weeks, everything went well.
There are only three days to go offshore. A strong wind suddenly blew at sea and the tug's cable broke. In the dark, the two ships lost contact. The next day, the "Ellen Austin" found the schooner and sent them a contact signal, but there was no response.
It turned out that several sailors sent to this schooner were also missing.
Just 300 kilometers away from new york, Captain Griffin bought several people with a large sum of money and comforted them, saying, "Keep up with our ship and everything will be safe." Indeed, the weather is very good, the breeze is blowing gently and the stars are shining.
So "Allen Austin" continued to drag the schooner. Before dawn, the helmsman of "Ellen Austin" found the schooner off course. After a while, when he looked back again, he was surprised to find that the schooner had disappeared!
In this way, the mysterious schooner disappeared again and became a mystery in the history of navigation.
193 1 in September, 2008, the Beechmo, which had been sailing normally for 10, was ordered to transport fur worth 1 10,000 dollars to the coast of Alaska, USA. Near the destination, a flocculent cloud suddenly fell from the sky, followed by a storm that lasted for several hours, turning the surrounding area into a hard ice world. The "Betchmo" is trapped in the sea of ice and can't get away.
So the captain decided to evacuate the crew of the Beechwood and camp on the ice floe a little farther away. Don't continue sailing until the snow and ice melt.
However, one morning a few days later, the crew on duty on the ice floe suddenly exclaimed, "The ship is gone."
"Beechwood" inexplicably got rid of the strong cable, washed away the layers of ice sea and disappeared mysteriously. The crew had to look for the Eskimo village. Just two days after they found an Eskimo village, an Eskimo hunter told them that a lonely boat was moored about 45 nautical miles southwest of their camp.
Under the guidance of the hunter, the crew finally found the Beechmo and saw that the ship was surrounded by frozen ice floes and could no longer move. So the crew unloaded the goods and prepared to spend the winter in the village.
Woke up the next day, the Beechwood mysteriously disappeared again. This time, the crew was afraid, because the "Betsy Mo" did not disappear for any reason, and the white ice sea around it remained! There is no trace of breaking the ice!
Six months later, a group of investigators saw the "Betsy Mo" in the ocean near hessel Island, far from the coast. Because the investigators didn't have enough strong cables to tow the 1300-ton ship, they had to return to land in order to work out the best plan for towing the "Beqimo". But the very next day, the Beechwood mysteriously left without saying goodbye.
Since then, a ship "Bechimo" with neither a captain nor a crew has been adrift at sea for 25 years. It has never stopped at any port and has not been destroyed by any snow or iceberg. This is an incredible mystery.
Where is Behemore now? Nobody knows. But no one can prove that it has sunk to the bottom of the sea. Perhaps it is still mysteriously "wandering" in a corner of the vast ocean!
On the afternoon of February 5th, the dhow 1872 1872 was sailing from new york to Gibraltar. On the way, it found a strange sloop, which drifted aimlessly around. Captain "Dai gracia" sent a contact signal at once, but the other party didn't respond.
When the three-masted sailboats approached each other, they put down a boat, and the captain, the second mate and two other sailors rowed to the silent strange sailboat. When they rowed near the boat, they saw that the tail of the boat was clearly written with paint: "Mary Sist". At 3 pm, the captain and the second mate climbed onto the deck along the ship's side. Strangely, no sailors met them. Then, they found the stern from the bow and found that the whole ship was empty. It turns out that the sailing ship "Mary Sist" is sailing automatically and crossing the vast Atlantic Ocean alone.
Everything on this sailboat is fine, and the hull, mast and sail are all intact. The barrel on the ship was still tied in place with a rope. In addition, there is plenty of food and fresh water on board.
In the cabin, the clothes in the storage box used by the sailors are still clean and intact, and there are some razors next to them, which are not rusty; There is a lot of leftover rice in the pot in the kitchen, and there is a pile of extinguished matches in the stove. Breakfast has been put on the table in the captain's room. I seem to have eaten half of my breakfast. Besides a bowl of porridge, there is also a boiled egg, and the eggshell is left.
Next to the plate is a cough medicine bottle with the lid open, and the fork has been placed on the table. There is a sewing machine on the small table on the side of the captain's cabin. There is a pajamas worn by children on the machine, next to which is an oil bottle, cotton thread and a sewing thimble. There are many books on the opposite wall, and there is a lusheng in the Qinglong wooden box.
The first mate's cabin is also in good order, and there is a newspaper on the table with an unfinished calculation problem written on it. On the surface, it seems that he was suddenly shocked by something. The gold box, jewels and money have been locked in the safe on board, and everything is intact and still in the right place.
It seems that all the sailors suddenly made a decision and jumped into the sea collectively. However, no matter what happens, it won't happen long ago, because those foods haven't rotted and metal products haven't lost their luster and turned gray in the maritime climate.
The captain of the "Day gracia" suspected that there had been a mutiny on board. But if there was a rebellion, how did the sailors escape? Mary Sist's lifeboat is still hanging on the boom, so they must have boarded a passing ship or jumped ashore.
This has naturally become a mystery that no one knows.