Finché la vittima del Titanic Jeremiah Burke ha lanciato un messaggio in una bottiglia che recitava “da Titanic, addio tutto, Burke di Glanmire, Cork”. Si è lavato a terra un anno dopo a pochi chilometri dalla sua casa di famiglia in Irlanda. Rimase quindi nella sua famiglia per quasi un secolo prima di essere donato a un museo

“The titanic is sinking. But more importantly, I’m from Cork.”

That’s quite an incredible claim.

Even contemporary newspapers at the time said that “It is, of course, true that very few authentic messages from wrecks have ever come to safety. Very many that were first reported turned out to be cruel hoaxes. ” (Irish News, 20 April 1912.)

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Hang on, the linked article says that “it was thrown overboard by a Titanic … while the ship sank” but the image in the article shows a date on the note which looks like 10/4/1912 which is a day before the Titanic even reached Cork.

Could it be that he just lobbed it into the sea by his house the day before he left?

Or he got the date mixed up and threw it off the ship the day he left.

If the note is genuine, these seem a lot more likely than him throwing it off the ship as it sank. Either that or just a hoax.

Some other news articles say it could be “13/4/12” which would still be wrong.

Sure he probably threw that overboard as soon as Ireland dropped off the horizon.