A NEW SEA-SERPENT STORY

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1934, Page 17

A NEW SEA-SERPENT STORY

* It<-was '-disclosed recently that two jet-black. I could not see tho eyes officers of the Mauretania saw a sea- as tho creature was-facing the otlier serpent off the Island of St. Eusta- way. Before I fetched Mr. Caunce it tius, in the Caribbean Sea, on January had partly submerged. But Mr. Caunco 30. They entered the fact in the ship's saw fully thirty feet of it." log-pn thatrday in the following terms: Captain Beginaid Peel, tho" Mauro"Sightod ■ seal-monster, headed south- tania's master, said that there was abtvest at 1.20 p.m." A sketch of tho solutely no doubt that the officeis had monster appeais<on the same page. seen a sea-serpent. The were Mr. S. iWV Jloughtin, the" chief officer, at lunch at the "time, and therefore who saw It'first, pointed it out to tho none of them saw it. senWr^third officer, -Mr. J. TV* Caunee, Mr. Moughtin told of an unusual whoCalso saw it. Neither.had mentioned fish seeu on the same trip in tho harbour the matter publicly foi" some timo be- of La Guayra, Venezuela. Many of the eansfe ( thoy s werd' ridiculed by some of passengers saw h. It is described as tWir r£ellow-officers-,(says i tho London being twenty-five feet long and fifteen "Daily' Telegraph"). , , I feet across the middle of the brick, and •'j"The. monsters-head ,was sis feet having a mouth three feet wide, and out of the-.water and. two feet across," two fins about sis feet long. It is paia'-Mr.'Moughtin. "Tho body had a believed ,to havo been ,a freak cross sis-foot beam and about forty-five feet between ■& giant ray -and a-skate. ' OE-ltf was -visible-in curves on the sur- Tho fish was. lying on tho suiface face,-, and, apparently there was about near the ship, b*ut submerged when twenty feefc.-below, fits colour tv-as tho vessel came close to it.