The Dry Card on Slip Fourteen: How Two Sailors Vanished at Sea
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The Dry Card on Slip Fourteen: How Two Sailors Vanished at Sea
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A laminated tide table found dry in a gray fender bag at slip fourteen carried a handwritten distress: "Marguerite, ketch, 42 ft. Cap shroud failure. Two souls. EPIRB activated 12:22 January 5." How did a seaworthy-sounding signal end up as a bottle on a dock, and were its senders still alive when it washed ashore?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a paperboy's discovery at Pelican Flat Marina to the search-and-rescue response in New Orleans, tracing the voyage of the ketch Marguerite, the documented rigging concerns before departure, and the moment the mast failed at sea - and we keep asking whether enough was known, documented, and acted on to save two lives.
Person: Gail Wilson
Person: Marcus Webb
Date: January 5, 2014
Location: 110 nm SSE of Southwest Pass
Event: EPIRB activated at 12:22
- The laminated card was found bone dry inside a gray fender bag at slip fourteen on January 7.
- Charles Jones, age 14, discovered the bag during his paper route on January 9 and called his mother.
- Gail Wilson, age 38, had surveyed Marguerite and noted standing rigging last replaced in 2004.
- The voyage departed Mobile on January 3, 2014, bound for Veracruz, approximately 900 miles.
- At 11:40 on January 5, the Marguerite's starboard cap shroud failed about 110 nautical miles SSE of the Mississippi mouth, mast coming down in under four seconds.
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