The Last Time Anyone Saw This Crew Alive

On January 31, 1921, the five-masted schooner Carroll A. Deering was found aground on the Diamond Shoals off Cape Hatteras, every sail set and not one of her eleven men aboard. Two days earlier, a man on her deck had hailed a lightship. He was not the captain. Every archive image in this video is real and marked ARCHIVE. Engraved plates are our illustrations. CHAPTERS 0:00 The last photograph 1:12 The ship and her men 3:08 The last voyage 6:07 Found on the Diamond Shoals 7:44 The evidence 10:23 The legend and the record 11:42 Theories 13:40 Epilogue SOURCES U.S. Department of State statement, The Washington Times, 21 June 1921 (Library of Congress, Chronicling America) The Washington Herald, 3 Feb 1921 · Daily Kennebec Journal, 5 and 7 Feb, 25 Oct 1921 · The Bridgeport Times, 4 Feb 1921 · Evening Star, 4 Feb 1921 · New-York Tribune, 12 Mar 1921 · Indiana Daily Times, 24 Jun 1921 · The Washington Times, 10 Jul 1921 · The Independent (Elizabeth City, N.C.), 2 Sep 1921 (all Library of Congress, Chronicling America, public domain) National Park Service, Cape Hatteras National Seashore: "The Ghost Ship of the Outer Banks" Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, "The Wreck of the Carroll A. Deering" (2016) Bland Simpson, Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering (UNC Press, 2002) Maine Memory Network: the sinking of the Dorothy B. Barrett, 1918 Naval History and Heritage Command, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: U-117 Joy Crist, Island Free Press, 18 Jan 2021 · Malea Walker, Library of Congress "Headlines & Heroes", 31 Jan 2023 Chart: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey No. 1232, Cape Hatteras, 1921 edition (NOAA, public domain) Photographs and drawings: U.S. Coast Guard (Jan. 1921); Governor Ames, 1895 (Library of Congress); the launch at Bath, 1919 newspaper drawing Background: Wikipedia, "Carroll A. Deering" and "Diamond Shoals", and the sources they cite Narration voice and engraved plates are AI-generated. Music: original, made with Suno. The Last Engraving tells true stories from the edges of the map.