Memo found in vials along the waterfront, dated 1876 and presumed to be the 'world's best'
Jul 25, 2024
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According to foreign media such as the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily Mail, Amy Smith-Murphy (49) found a pushed glass bottle while taking a walk along the coast of Ocean City Jersey, New Jersey.
Inside was a note that had been rolled up, a business card of the Philadelphia musical instrument company W.G. & J. Clem from the 1800s, and on the back was 'Neptune, a yacht off Atlantic City, New Jersey. August 6, 1876' was written.
The bottle was labeled 'Barrel & Brothers Philadelphia'.
According to her own investigation, she had just built a fancy yacht named 'Neptune' after the city's Neptune Club by Captain Samuel Gale of Atlantic City in an 1874 Philadelphia Inquirer articlefind the content that '
Neptune was mentioned as a popular cruise ship that attracted numerous day-trippers thanks to Captain Gale's charismatic personality.
Taking to TikTok, she wrote "I'm getting closer and closer to figuring out who wrote this note and who threw the bottle at sea and why." he said.
But her quest is far from over.
They want to contact the Guinness Book of World Records to see if it is the oldest parallel message in the world.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the oldest current record of a message in a bottle is June 12, 1886, and a glass bottle sent by German captains from the Bark Polar was found on Wedge Island in Australia in 2018.
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