This Looks Like Driftwood At First, But The Story Behind It Is So Cool

In 1919, a ship called the William H. Sumner ran aground off Topsail Inlet in North Carolina, with the wreckage eventually disappearing over the years. The three-masted schooner had been sailing from Puerto Rico back to its home port in New York City when it sank on September 7. The captain, 20-something Robert E. Cochrane, was found dead afterward. Later on, three crewmen confessed that the first mate had shot him.“The story goes that the young captain on his first voyage in command had sailed too close to the shore while the currents and winds had died preventing him from...

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