Cape Fear

They then left Rio de Janeiro on December 2nd, 1920, and later stopped for supplies in Barbados.

The next sighting of the ship was off the shore of North Carolina on January 28th, 1921, when a local lightship was requested to contact the G.G. Deering Company because the Carroll A. Deering had lost its anchors during a storm off the shores of Cape Fear.

The keeper of the lightship's radio was out, so he wasn't able to report it to anyone.

The next day, the crew of another ship claimed to have seen the Carroll A. Deering going in a direction that would've put it directly onto the Diamond Shoals, the cluster of shallow sandbars, but didn't see anyone on deck.