In Beaumont, Texas, last week a U.S. Coast Guard board of inquiry sought to solve the mystery of the Marine Sulphur Queen. A 523-ft. converted tanker, the Queen left Beaumont on Feb. 2, bound for Norfolk and points north, with a full cargo of molten sulphur. The ship's last radio report, on Feb. 3, placed it 230 miles southeast of New Orleans. Two weeks later, pieces of a raft, a life vest, a broken oar washed up on Florida beaches. There had been no S 0 S, no warning of trouble. The Sulphur Queen and its crew of...
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