On January 31st

The Carroll A. Deering was found grounded on Diamond Shoals on January 31, 1921, completely abandoned; the crew was never found. The documented date is 1921-01-31. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Carroll A. Deering' carry the record. It anch

On January 31, 1921, the five-masted schooner Carroll A. Deering was found hard aground on Diamond Shoals — sails set, dinner on the stove, lifeboats and every man gone. The abandonment launched a federal investigation spanning multiple agencies and theories from mutiny to rum-runners to the Bermuda Triangle; the crew was never found. It remains the Outer Banks' defining maritime mystery.