One bottle that washed up in Virginia carried a particularly tantalyzing note:
“3:10 AM Feb.19. SS Naronic at sea. To who picks this up: report when you find this to our agents if not heard of before, that our ship is sinking fast beneath the waves. It’s such a storm that we can never live in the small boats. One boat has already gone with her human cargo below. God let all of us live through this. We were struck by an iceberg in a blinding snowstorm and floated two hours. Now it 3:20 AM by my watch and the great ship is dead level with the sea. Report to the agents at Broadway, New New York, M. Kersey & Company. Goodby all.”
This note, and one other, were signed with a name that wasn’t on Naronic’s manifest. The two other notes were unsigned.
A decade later, there was an attempt to link Noronic’s disappearance with a bomb found onboard Cunard Line’s Umbria in May 1903. (See below.)
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