Round three: mysteries and disasters

Round three: mysteries and disasters

Checked September 7, 2026. New entries; no shared catalog edits. Source extent and remaining questions below.

1. jacob-jones-destroyer-loss-1942

File: pinebarrens/entry/jacob-jones-destroyer-loss-1942.html

Added Jacob Jones’s final coastal patrol, the raft rescue, and the distinction from its World War I namesake.

Sources: Naval History and Heritage Command, Jacob Jones II, construction and final-patrol sections. The Navy itself leaves the exact number of torpedo hits uncertain.

Checked extent and limits: Full indexed Navy ship history read. Survivor count is 12 rescued / 11 surviving, not an inferred full casualty roster.

2. mohawk-steering-collision-1935

File: pinebarrens/entry/mohawk-steering-collision-1935.html

Added the Senate’s account of Mohawk’s reversed steering orders and the design failure that allowed the damaged ship to sink.

Sources: U.S. Senate, Morro Castle and Mohawk Investigations, report 776, printed pages 16–18. Original government PDF downloaded and the complete Mohawk section read.

Checked extent and limits: Original PDF read locally after web tool rejected file size; Mohawk pages 16–18 only. No criminal disposition or unsupported exact casualty count asserted.

3. atlantic-city-airlines-cape-may-1976

File: pinebarrens/entry/atlantic-city-airlines-cape-may-1976.html

Added Flight 977’s interacting approach failures and explained the report’s three-versus-four fatality counts.

Sources: NTSB AAR-77-12, synopsis, injury-table footnote and probable cause on printed pages 1, 4 and 23. This describes the historical report’s classification, not today’s reporting rules.

Checked extent and limits: Original scan synopsis and probable cause visually read; indexed page 4 injury table and footnote read. No full 32-page review claimed.

4. great-atlantic-hurricane-radar-1944

File: pinebarrens/entry/great-atlantic-hurricane-radar-1944.html

Added Lakehurst’s first hurricane radar observation and separated regional maritime losses from Jersey Shore damage.

Sources: NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, 70th Anniversary of the Great Atlantic Hurricane, September 15, 2014. Wexler’s original 1945 paper is identified there but was not separately read.

Checked extent and limits: Complete NOAA retrospective read. Avoided incorrectly presenting all maritime fatalities as NewJersey deaths; original radar logs not inspected.

5. r-p-resor-tanker-loss-1942

File: pinebarrens/entry/r-p-resor-tanker-loss-1942.html

Added the Resor survivors’ separate escapes and the museum photograph record connecting the tanker loss with Manasquan’s rescue station.

Sources: Joseph G. Bilby and Harry Ziegler, R. P. Resor account reproduced by Monmouth Timeline, with museum photograph captions and bibliography. The original survivor statements and newspaper articles were not separately inspected.

Checked extent and limits: Full historical narrative read, comments excluded. Avoided conflicting overall casualty totals and precise attack-date discrepancies across summaries; no sourceclaim based on comments.

6. atlantus-ferry-pier-wreck-1926

File: pinebarrens/entry/atlantus-ferry-pier-wreck-1926.html

Added Atlantus’s failed1926 ferry-pier project while excluding unverified transatlantic-service claims.

Sources: Concrete Ships, S. S. Atlantus, ferry plan and grounding narrative. Cape May County, Points of Interest, confirming the landmark at Sunset Beach. These are secondary summaries, not the original ship’s log.

Checked extent and limits: Full ConcreteShips page downloaded after decoder failure; county landmark description read. Original1926 ferry company records not inspected; earlier career claims deliberately excluded.

7. lopez-danielle-disappearance-2024

File: pinebarrens/entry/lopez-danielle-disappearance-2024.html

Added Lopez’s separate surveillance, witness-video and vehicle-recovery chronology through August 2026 without assigning blame.

Sources: Jason Nark, The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 18, 2026, timeline and reporting on the investigation. KYW, April 13, 2026, renewed police appeal.

Checked extent and limits: Complete Inquirer article read and KYW police-appeal report checked. GoPro footage itself not public; unrelated charges against another person omitted. No new resolution found.

8. della-penna-dolores-search-1972

File: pinebarrens/entry/della-penna-dolores-search-1972.html

Added the 2020 garage excavation in Della Penna’s case and distinguished the documented search from an anonymously sourced motive theory.

Sources: Dave Schratwieser, FOX 29, February 20–21, 2020. The report uses the spelling “Delores”; other records use “Dolores.” No grand-jury transcript or forensic report was inspected.

Checked extent and limits: Full FOX 29 article read; targeted later status search no resolution. Direct police case files not available in this pass. Omitted graphic details and unnamed suspect allegations.

9. burlington-john-doe-pyrite-1988

File: pinebarrens/entry/burlington-john-doe-pyrite-1988.html

Added the Woodland 1988 unidentified-person case by connecting the original pyrite-and-money-clip bulletin with the current genealogy effort.

Sources: New Jersey State Police bulletin U284560766. Ramapo IGG Center, Burlington County John Doe 1988 section, checked September 7, 2026. Linked NamUs record returned an unpopulated page and was not used as independent corroboration.

Checked extent and limits: Full indexed NJSP bulletin and Ramapo case section read. NamUs dynamically empty; not cited as read. No cause of death or identity guessed.

10. parker-gary-lorraine-search-2021

File: pinebarrens/entry/parker-gary-lorraine-search-2021.html

Added the police account of the Parker drone recovery and separated dense-vegetation search difficulties from the undisclosed cause of death.

Sources: Dan Alexander, New Jersey 101.5, November 30, 2021, direct interview with Captain Vaughn. PhillyVoice, December 1, 2021 update, confirming recovery and the pending autopsies.

Checked extent and limits: Full NJ101.5 report and PhillyVoice update read. Later cause search produced speculation but no verified medical finding; speculation excluded. No disappearance-date choice made because contemporaneous reports differ.

11. u-869-wreck-identification-1997

File: pinebarrens/entry/u-869-wreck-identification-1997.html

Added the artifact-based identification of U-869 and the explicit disagreement between Navy history and the wreck’s investigators over its loss.

Sources: NOVA, Hitler’s Lost Sub transcript, 2000, identification narrative. Naval History and Heritage Command, Howard D. Crow, February 1945 attack. Chatterton, Kohler and Yurga, The Fate of U-869 Reexamined, Part III, 2009, competing physical-evidence interpretation.

Checked extent and limits: NOVA identification sections, indexed Navy February 1945 section and the divers’ article text read. Original war diaries and recovered artifacts not independently examined. Each source contributes under 200 words.

12. carolina-u-151-loss-1918

File: pinebarrens/entry/carolina-u-151-loss-1918.html

Added Carolina’s warning-shot evacuation and distinguished the sinking by gunfire from the later fatal boat capsize.

Sources: Naval History and Heritage Command, H-Gram 019-5, U-151 and Carolina account. Passenger and crew figures describe those aboard before evacuation; thirteen is the reported subsequent loss.

Checked extent and limits: Indexed Navy Carolina section read; direct reopen returned 502. Original survivor depositions not read. Omitted inconsistent passenger-versus-crew breakdown of thirteen fatalities.

13. double-trouble-fire-weather-2002

File: pinebarrens/entry/double-trouble-fire-weather-2002.html

Added the Double Trouble fire-weather investigation explaining how mixing brought unusually dry air and stronger winds toward the surface.

Sources: Charney and colleagues, Mesoscale simulations during the Double Trouble State Park wildfire, 2003 AMS conference abstract. Forest Service conference paper, introduction and observations. Both represent the same research, not independent confirmations.

Checked extent and limits: Full conference abstract read through direct HTTP retrieval after the web reopen failed; paper introduction read; not a full independent review of the model or later 2010 journal article. Approximately 175 words derived across the two versions of this one work. Impact figures attributed to study because other reports differ.

14. mays-landing-excursion-wreck-1880

File: pinebarrens/entry/mays-landing-excursion-wreck-1880.html

Added the two-train sequence and household emergency response to the 1880 Mays Landing excursion wreck, with the suppression claim clearly excluded.

Sources: M. Dattolo, Hamilton Historical Society, Disaster on the West Jersey Line. This is a historical reconstruction with links to newspaper clippings; the linked clipping images were not independently read in this pass.

Checked extent and limits: Society narrative read. No original inquest, railroad operating record or complete casualty roll examined. Kept casualty number open and did not adopt unsupported deliberate-suppression allegation.

15. ash-wednesday-storm-shelters-1962

File: pinebarrens/entry/ash-wednesday-storm-shelters-1962.html

Added the 1962 Harvey Cedars shelter and repeated-tide chronology, distinguishing local rebuilding testimony from regional storm casualty totals.

Sources: National Park Service, Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962, regional summary. Margaret Thomas Buchholz, History of Harvey Cedars, 1962 storm and rebuilding section, published by the borough.

Checked extent and limits: NPS article and municipal history storm sections fully read. Exact tide counts differ by account; not forced into one count. Omitted dramatic wave-height estimates and local damage superlatives. No original shelter register examined.

Final review

All 15 manifest items have distinct HTML files, year metadata and Updates navigation. Research dates added September 7, 2026. Single-source pages are labeled Source reviewed. Narrative derivations were kept below 200 words per source, counting shared versions of the same work together; no extended quotations.

Targeted September 7 official-domain searches found no newer public resolution for Lopez, Della Penna or the Parker autopsy question. Absence of a search result is not proof of present investigative status: these pages retain dated reporting and explicit limits. The Woodland unidentified-person page was checked against the NJSP bulletin and Ramapo in-progress listing. No contact with families or investigators was made.