Til Titanic Opfer Jeremiah Burke warf eine Nachricht in eine Flasche über Bord mit der Aufschrift „From Titanic, Goodbye All, Burke of Glanmire, Cork“. Ein Jahr später wusch es nur wenige Meilen von seinem Familienheim in Irland entfernt. Es blieb dann fast ein Jahrhundert in seiner Familie, bevor es an ein Museum gespendet wurde

“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.