The New York Times, 17 January 1923
MARINE MONSTER SIGHTED BY BALTIC
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Master Says Object, Resembling a Sea Elephant, Was Twenty Feet Long
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When the White Star liner Baltic arrived yesterday twenty-four hours
late from Liverpool and Queenstown, Captain John Roberts, R. N. R., D.
S. O., C. B. E., the master, reported having sighted in mid-ocean a
strange marine monster. He and his officers who saw it from the bridge,
say it may have been a sea elephant.
According to Second Officer H. Grienrod and Fourth Officer G. D. R.
Eales, who were on the bridge at 9:30 A. M. on Jan. 11 they sighted a
strange object on the surface of the water about a mile away on the
starboard bow. As the ship drew nearer to the object it was seen that
it had ears and was about 20 feet long and nine feet across, but there
was no sign of a tail. When Captain Roberts and Chief Officer R. J.
Williams, who had been notified, came on the bridge the ears and nose of
the monster could be seen plainly through the glasses and resembled
those of an immense pig, the Captain said.
The only thing it resembled was a sea elephant, which is rarely seen
away from the Antartic [sic] Circle. The back, exposed well above the
water, was black or dark brown, the Captain said. When the Baltic drew
near the monster appeared to rise from the sea and then turned and swam
straight for the northeast, soon disappearing from view. It dived three
or four times as if it was being attacked by some enemy below the
surface.
A first cabin passenger was the Very Rev. Albert Victor Baillie, C. V.
O., M. A., of Windsor, England, where he is chaplain to the King and
Dean of the Chapel of St. George in Windsor Castle. He will preach his
first sermon in America on Jan. 28 at the Cathedral of St. John the
Divine. Another passenger on the Baltic was Lieut. Col. R. P.
Embury-Robinson, a representative of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in
Europe. His wife and two daughters accompanied him.
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MARINE MONSTER SIGHTED BY BALTIC
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Master Says Object, Resembling a Sea Elephant, Was Twenty Feet Long
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When the White Star liner Baltic arrived yesterday twenty-four hours
late from Liverpool and Queenstown, Captain John Roberts, R. N. R., D.
S. O., C. B. E., the master, reported having sighted in mid-ocean a
strange marine monster. He and his officers who saw it from the bridge,
say it may have been a sea elephant.
According to Second Officer H. Grienrod and Fourth Officer G. D. R.
Eales, who were on the bridge at 9:30 A. M. on Jan. 11 they sighted a
strange object on the surface of the water about a mile away on the
starboard bow. As the ship drew nearer to the object it was seen that
it had ears and was about 20 feet long and nine feet across, but there
was no sign of a tail. When Captain Roberts and Chief Officer R. J.
Williams, who had been notified, came on the bridge the ears and nose of
the monster could be seen plainly through the glasses and resembled
those of an immense pig, the Captain said.
The only thing it resembled was a sea elephant, which is rarely seen
away from the Antartic [sic] Circle. The back, exposed well above the
water, was black or dark brown, the Captain said. When the Baltic drew
near the monster appeared to rise from the sea and then turned and swam
straight for the northeast, soon disappearing from view. It dived three
or four times as if it was being attacked by some enemy below the
surface.
A first cabin passenger was the Very Rev. Albert Victor Baillie, C. V.
O., M. A., of Windsor, England, where he is chaplain to the King and
Dean of the Chapel of St. George in Windsor Castle. He will preach his
first sermon in America on Jan. 28 at the Cathedral of St. John the
Divine. Another passenger on the Baltic was Lieut. Col. R. P.
Embury-Robinson, a representative of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in
Europe. His wife and two daughters accompanied him.
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