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Foreign News
March 25, 1956
Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
What is this article about?
In Jamaica, a couple found a 206-year-old message in a bottle from a young man on the sinking pirate ship Brethren of the Coast, revealing his final moments amid a burning vessel off St. Ann's coast.
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Bottle Brings Tale Of Ancient Tragedy-Jamaica
BY WILBERT E. HEMMING
KINGSTON, Jamaica -(ANP)
The ancient form of telling a message to the world of their fate at sea by the dying, came as a hot story in Jamaica recently when a note written 206 years ago and corked in a bottle and thrown off the sinking ship, Brethren of the Coast, was found in the corked bottle at Cork Tree Beach, Jamaica.
The bottle was picked up by a newly married couple (who wished to be anonymous) as they strolled for a walk along the north-coast beach of St. Ann parish, on a moon lit night.
Bearing all the confused feeling of an intelligent person aboard a burning ship, the letter was still legible but age had turned the writing paper brown.
Written by a young man, the letter was unfinished as the writer apparently had not enough time, save to put it in the bottle, just before he went down in the sinking ship.
BY WILBERT E. HEMMING
KINGSTON, Jamaica -(ANP)
The ancient form of telling a message to the world of their fate at sea by the dying, came as a hot story in Jamaica recently when a note written 206 years ago and corked in a bottle and thrown off the sinking ship, Brethren of the Coast, was found in the corked bottle at Cork Tree Beach, Jamaica.
The bottle was picked up by a newly married couple (who wished to be anonymous) as they strolled for a walk along the north-coast beach of St. Ann parish, on a moon lit night.
Bearing all the confused feeling of an intelligent person aboard a burning ship, the letter was still legible but age had turned the writing paper brown.
Written by a young man, the letter was unfinished as the writer apparently had not enough time, save to put it in the bottle, just before he went down in the sinking ship.
What sub-type of article is it?
Naval Affairs
Piracy Or Privateering
What keywords are associated?
Bottle Message
Sinking Ship
Brethren Of The Coast
Cork Tree Beach
St. Ann Parish
Where did it happen?
Jamaica
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Jamaica
Event Date
206 Years Ago
Outcome
sinking ship brethren of the coast
Event Details
A note written 206 years ago by a young man aboard the burning and sinking ship Brethren of the Coast was found in a corked bottle at Cork Tree Beach, St. Ann parish, Jamaica, by an anonymous newly married couple on a moonlit night. The unfinished letter, legible but on browned paper, conveyed the confused feelings of an intelligent person facing death at sea.