On the morning of  January 31, 1921, the beautiful, huge, five-masted schooner was found hard aground on Hatteras Diamond Shoals, North Carolina.

Abandoned and deserted, with all of its eleven crewmen missing, the circumstances are as strange as those of the “Mary Celeste,” and her demise remains as one of the greatest unsolved maritime mysteries of all time.

Her sails were up and the galley showed evidence that a meal was about to be prepared.  The crews’ personal effects were gone, along with the ships navigational equipment,  log books, and life rafts.  Also mysteriously missing were the eleven crew members of the vessel.

Christened “Carroll A. Deering,” after the owner’s son, this five masted schooner was built in 1919 by the G.G. Deering Company, said to be the oldest active shipbuilder in the country at that time.  She was also the last of nearly 100 boats built by the G.G. Deering Company.