A ship named "General Grant" is carrying some passengers, gold, leather, wool and other goods. It is heading for the vast sea. It will cross the southern island of New Zealand and go to London, the capital of England.
The "General Grant" is sailing fast at sea. The weather is fine and the waves on the sea are not so big, which can be described as smooth sailing. So, on May 13, it approached an island called Auckland in the south of New Zealand.
It was getting dark and the wind was getting less and less. The captain of the "General Grant" ordered the helmsman to slow down and sail slowly to Auckland Island.
In the middle of the night, General Grant's captain ordered the helmsman to slow down the ship. The whole sea is very quiet, only the ropes on the mast make a gentle sound.
The "General Grant" sailed further. At this time, a sailor in charge of lookout said to the chief officer on duty, "Report to the chief officer that Auckland Island is in sight." The first mate looked at it carefully, and it was certain that the ship would arrive in Auckland Island. So, he gave an order and said to the helmsman, "Change course, bypass Auckland Island and move on!" " "The helmsman was ordered to turn the rudder immediately. Unexpectedly, the ship remained on its original course and did not move at all. The helmsman felt particularly strange and quickly turned the tiller several times in a row. However, the ship still did not move, and the helmsman was puzzled. It turned out that "General Grant" was trapped in a powerful current. The helmsman was surprised and suddenly felt that the ship was pushed and pulled by the strong current and rushed towards Auckland Island. The captain found that the situation was not good and hurried there. He and all the sailors know very well that the General Grant is in a particularly dangerous situation. If it doesn't change its course, it will hit Auckland Island. The captain and sailors hurried to help the helmsman turn the tiller. However, no matter how hard they tried to get the ship out of danger, it was useless. Finally, with a loud bang, General Grant finally hit the stone wall of Orange Island, and the rudder snapped off.
At this time, the passengers on the "General Grant" were sleeping peacefully and were awakened by the sudden noise. They hurried to the deck and were immediately stunned by what they saw. I saw "General Grant" spinning in the rapids. Suddenly, another current rushed over and hit the boat. After turning a big bend, I hit the other stone wall of the island. What is even more frightening is that people found a dark hole in the sea, looming on the stone wall. The big hole in the sea has a black mouth, as if to swallow the whole "General Grant".
The sailors saw the black hole in the sea and tried their best to save General Grant, the passengers on board and themselves.
The current was still pounding General Grant, who was finally washed into a huge black hole. The front mast crashed into the stone wall with a click, broke in two, then fell down with a bang and slammed on the deck. The captain and the passengers felt as if the sky were falling. Then, people can't hear anything, only the roar of the surging sea in their ears, trembling with fear and chaos. When they looked around again, it was already dark and they could see nothing. They can only sit on the messy deck and wait for dawn.
A few hours later, the dawn finally appeared, and finally dawned. By the dawn, the captain saw the "General Grant" in the cave of the sea cave, and the mast of the ship was tightly pressed on the upper part of the cave. It seems that if the mast hadn't been propped in the hole, the whole ship would have been swallowed up.
The captain thought for a moment and ordered the passengers to disembark in lifeboats and take them to the island. So he ordered three sailors to put down their lifeboats. The passengers got off the lifeboat and rowed outside the sea cave.
Who knows, just at this time, the sea began to rise, and the "General Grant" was violently hit by the waves, making a series of scary sounds. Kung fu was not great, and the bottom of General Grant was knocked out of a big hole by the great power of the waves, and the sea water suddenly poured into the cabin. General Grant began to sink slowly.
Seeing this scene, the passengers in the car were scared and at a loss. Those strong men jumped into the sea to escape. However, the dark cave seems to have great attraction, and those people are sucked into the cave at once. Only four people escaped to the lifeboat outside the hole.
At this time, there were no jumpers on the "General Grant". Most of them are women, children and the infirm, about 40 people. The captain quickly told the sailors to put down a long boat and run for their lives with them. Unexpectedly, as soon as the sailors cut the long boat out of the hole, a rough wave rushed in and drove the long boat into the bottom of the sea. Except for a passenger named David Arthus and two sailors who fled to the lifeboat outside the cave, almost everyone on the ship lost their lives.
The waves are still pounding the "General Grant" mercilessly, and seawater is still pouring into the cabin. Finally, it slowly sank into a bottomless cave, and the captain and the people on board disappeared. ...
Those who survived by luck finally fled to an island called disappointment, where they struggled to make ends meet. Finally, he was rescued by a passing ship.
On March 26th, A.D. 1890, David Astis, a passenger who escaped from the cave, also arrived in the Auckland Islands on a ship named Dafen. They want to find the "General Grant" sucked in by the sea cave and the gold contained in it.
On a calm day, the captain, four sailors and David Arthus were driving the Dafen. On the way to the sea cave, they happily thought, "Ah, if we can find the gold that sank in the sea cave, we can make a fortune at once and enjoy it for a lifetime."
However, the dream of getting rich is not easy to do, and they are gone forever. Other expedition ships that went to the sea caves in Auckland Islands to look for gold also disappeared for unknown reasons.
So, what happened to these ships and people looking for gold on General Grant's sunken ship? These questions are like a riddle with no answer. Several people in the expedition did come back alive. However, these people said that they never found "General Grant" or even saw the legendary underwater cave.
This is another difficult mystery. Some people suspect that the sea hides the caves in the Auckland Islands to keep it a secret. But this is only people's guess, and no one can say clearly what is going on.