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Glanmire meets the Lee and flows to the sea. The note is now on public display at the Queenstown Experience visitor attraction in Cobh.
His grandniece has said: âThe bottle and note were all his mother had, and in a way it was like a tombstone. He wouldnât have thrown away a bottle of holy water his mother gave him. There was an element of panic to it.â
Last Hour Messages
The possibility that messages from some of the people left on the doomed Titanic may have been committed to the deep is discussed ⦠Such notes, enclosed in bottles, may have been thrown overboard; and if so, their chances of being found are a hundred times better than those of any messages ever given to the sea. The US cruiser [ sic ] MacKay-Bennett is only one of the many ships that will be sent specially to search the scene of the shipwreck, and the possibility of salvaging something from the wreckage is certain to draw many Newfoundland fishing boats to the spot.
It is of course true that very few authentic messages from wrecks have ever come to safety. Very many that were first reported turned out to be cruel hoaxes. The bottle-messages that purported to come from the Yongala , which went down off Queensland, and from the Allan liner Huronian , which was lost in the North Atlantic, and from the Waratah, whose fate was never known, were all discovered to be false.
One of the few cases that were considered authentic was the bottle-message that was found some time after the Bay of Bengal sailed from England, saying that she had been wrecked almost immediately after putting to sea. Nothing more was ever heard of this ship.
( Irish News , 20 April 1912)
The theme of the ship that sailed and was never seen again has always had a horrible fascination. The White Star steamer Naronic was built in 1892 and was described as the finest and safest vessel ever launched.
She left Liverpool for New York on 11 February 1893, and then disappeared forever. But six weeks afterwards a champagne bottle was found on the beach at Ocean View, Virginia, containing a letter alleged to have been written by John Olsen, a cattleman on board.
âThe Naronic is fast sinking. It is such a storm that we cannot live in the small boats. One boat with its human cargo has already sunk. We have been struck by an iceberg in the blinding snow. The ship has floated for two hours. It is now 3.20 in the morning, and the deck is level with the sea.â That is all we have ever heard of the Naronic.
( Galway Express , 27 April 1912)
But here is a case of a Corkmanâs bottle, thrown overboard in mid-ocean, which indeed drifted for a year before making landfall, albeit on a different coast:
The Voyage of a Bottle from the North Atlantic to the Florida Coast
Long Journey of a Corkmanâs Message
On the 23rd February 1931 when the Dresden was 2,125 miles from Cove, Mr Michael OâSullivan, who originally hailed from the Mallow district, dropped a bottle overboard containing the following message â
February 21, 1931. Tourist cabin 336A. â On board the SS Dresden from Bremerhaven via Cherbourg and Queenstown to New York ⦠This note in airtight bottle has been cast overboard 2,125 miles from Queenstown and at a latitude N. 41.32, and longitude W. 62.18. Finder please send to Cork Weekly Examiner , Patrick Street, Cork city, Ireland, giving your name and address and where found and when â¦
On Saturday last, 26 March, the Editor received a letter enclosing the message from Miss A. McBride, the Belleview Biltmore Hotel, Belleair, Florida. Miss McBride had picked up the bottle on the beach at Belleair while bathing on March 6, 1932. Here is her letter:
âWhile bathing at a local beach here in Florida I found the enclosed note which was dropped from the SS Dresden by a Mr OâSullivan and I am carrying out his instructions by sending it to you â sincerely Miss A. McBride.
PS: March 6th, 1932, when I found this bottle washed onto
His grandniece has said: âThe bottle and note were all his mother had, and in a way it was like a tombstone. He wouldnât have thrown away a bottle of holy water his mother gave him. There was an element of panic to it.â
Last Hour Messages
The possibility that messages from some of the people left on the doomed Titanic may have been committed to the deep is discussed ⦠Such notes, enclosed in bottles, may have been thrown overboard; and if so, their chances of being found are a hundred times better than those of any messages ever given to the sea. The US cruiser [ sic ] MacKay-Bennett is only one of the many ships that will be sent specially to search the scene of the shipwreck, and the possibility of salvaging something from the wreckage is certain to draw many Newfoundland fishing boats to the spot.
It is of course true that very few authentic messages from wrecks have ever come to safety. Very many that were first reported turned out to be cruel hoaxes. The bottle-messages that purported to come from the Yongala , which went down off Queensland, and from the Allan liner Huronian , which was lost in the North Atlantic, and from the Waratah, whose fate was never known, were all discovered to be false.
One of the few cases that were considered authentic was the bottle-message that was found some time after the Bay of Bengal sailed from England, saying that she had been wrecked almost immediately after putting to sea. Nothing more was ever heard of this ship.
( Irish News , 20 April 1912)
The theme of the ship that sailed and was never seen again has always had a horrible fascination. The White Star steamer Naronic was built in 1892 and was described as the finest and safest vessel ever launched.
She left Liverpool for New York on 11 February 1893, and then disappeared forever. But six weeks afterwards a champagne bottle was found on the beach at Ocean View, Virginia, containing a letter alleged to have been written by John Olsen, a cattleman on board.
âThe Naronic is fast sinking. It is such a storm that we cannot live in the small boats. One boat with its human cargo has already sunk. We have been struck by an iceberg in the blinding snow. The ship has floated for two hours. It is now 3.20 in the morning, and the deck is level with the sea.â That is all we have ever heard of the Naronic.
( Galway Express , 27 April 1912)
But here is a case of a Corkmanâs bottle, thrown overboard in mid-ocean, which indeed drifted for a year before making landfall, albeit on a different coast:
The Voyage of a Bottle from the North Atlantic to the Florida Coast
Long Journey of a Corkmanâs Message
On the 23rd February 1931 when the Dresden was 2,125 miles from Cove, Mr Michael OâSullivan, who originally hailed from the Mallow district, dropped a bottle overboard containing the following message â
February 21, 1931. Tourist cabin 336A. â On board the SS Dresden from Bremerhaven via Cherbourg and Queenstown to New York ⦠This note in airtight bottle has been cast overboard 2,125 miles from Queenstown and at a latitude N. 41.32, and longitude W. 62.18. Finder please send to Cork Weekly Examiner , Patrick Street, Cork city, Ireland, giving your name and address and where found and when â¦
On Saturday last, 26 March, the Editor received a letter enclosing the message from Miss A. McBride, the Belleview Biltmore Hotel, Belleair, Florida. Miss McBride had picked up the bottle on the beach at Belleair while bathing on March 6, 1932. Here is her letter:
âWhile bathing at a local beach here in Florida I found the enclosed note which was dropped from the SS Dresden by a Mr OâSullivan and I am carrying out his instructions by sending it to you â sincerely Miss A. McBride.
PS: March 6th, 1932, when I found this bottle washed onto
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