![]() Wormell, found aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. ![]() Deering, five-masted schooner, Captain W. 1918: USS Cyclops, collier, left Barbados on March 4, lost with all 306 crew and passengers en route to Baltimore, Maryland.There are no casualty listings for this vessel, or any vessel at that time, that would suggest a large number of missing men were placed on board a derelict that later disappeared although one website includes the alleged derelict vessel incident it does find that Rupert Gould talked about the legend on radio in the 1930s likewise the website traces the derelict story to a June 1906 newspaper story-which claims the derelict ship incident took place in 1891 however the 1906 story does not give a reference of where this story came from. The Ellen Austin did exist a check from Lloyd's of London records proved the existence of Meta, built in 1854, and that in 1880, Meta was renamed Ellen Austin. Lawrence David Kusche author of "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" found no mention in 1880 or 1881 newspapers of this alleged incident-he did trace the legend to a book by Rupert Gould "The Stargazer Talks" published in 1943. ![]() Two versions of what happened to the vessel are: the vessel was either lost in a storm or was found again without a crew.
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