SEA MYSTERY
Captain Missing : Crew Drunk YACHT OFF AMERICAN COAST A LUXURIOUS yacht found out of control off the New Jersey coast with her captain, a well-known sailing master, missing, and her crew dead drunk in a cabin littered with bottles, has provided a sea mystery which the United States Coastguard Service is endeavouring to solve.
(Australian atid N.Z. Press Association) (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. 0.43 a.in. NEW YORK, Thurs. A coastguard seaplane discovered the luxurious yacht Nomad wallowing in the sea IS miles off the New Jersey coast, ft sent a wireless message to an armed cutter which proceeded to the scene. The crew of the cutter boarded the yacht and found four sailors allegedly stupified with liquor lying in the cabin, about which were scattered 40 liquor bottles. The skipper, Captain John L. Schofield, the famous Cape May sailing master, was missing.
It was then believed that the crewhad mutinied and tossed the captain overboard. The sailors w-ere lodged in the Cape May (New Jersey) coastguard brig, while the agents inspected the yacht’s log in an endeavour to discover the whereabouts of the missing captain. The coastguard officials later reported towing the Nomad to Philadelphia, and that one sailor had revived sufficiently to explain that the captain was washed overboard several nights ago, while the Nomad was on the way from Cape Charles, Virginia, to New York. The officials are holding the men for further questioning. They refused to discuss the mystery further.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 630, 5 April 1929, Page 9
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246SEA MYSTERY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 630, 5 April 1929, Page 9
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