<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>A message in a bottle that washed up more than 108 years after it was thrown into the sea may be the world's oldest, a marine association has said.
The bottle was released in the North Sea between 1904 and 190<wm>5, and was sent to the ocean after the SS General Stonewall's, a merchant ship that sank in the North Sea off Cape Hatteras, NC, died in a storm. Tragically, the crew never returned and their bodies were never recovered.
An anonymous letter was sent to the Haddam Post and Telegraph company by an anonymous writer describing an uncolored bottle with a leather seal. However, it wasn't until 1899 that a man found it washed up on</wm> the ocean floor at Cape Hatteras. His initial reaction is not believed it to be the supposed