A FEW OF THE MANY DEEP SEA MYSTERIES
The great sea is ever full of unsolved mysteries, ships sail out into the wide ocean and are seen and heard from no more. And the many human lives on board are blotted out as completely as though they had never been.
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We have space for but few instances, and most of the following ships when starting out on their last voyages passed out by Cape Cod.
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The full rigged ship Brynhilda, with a full cargo and deck load of lumber, sailed away on September 27, 1914. After many adventures in Russian waters, neither ship nor crew were seen again.
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Then the ship Avon pushed out on the deep blue sea and was never seen or heard from again.
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In 1914 the Balmaha faded away in the ocean’s mist.
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In the following year the Pass of Balmaha, carrying a cargo of cotton valued at a million dollars, joined the fleet of mystery ships.
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In 1917 the great Navy Collier Cyclops, with a complement of 300 officers and men, disappeared in the mists and the darkness of the ever restless sea and another strange mystery was added to the long and ever increasing list of unsolved tragedies.