When I was growing up my father owned a 75 foot scallop dragger the MAJOR J CASEY . I think I was about 10 at the time ,so I am guessing this happened around 1960 .My dad and I went down to Tylors dock in Greenport L.I. to meet the boat when she returned from a 14 day trip. We were just getting out of the car when the boat hit the dock .And I do mean HIT THE DOCK the captain was the only member of the 10 man crew that could still stand . Well we got her tied up and dad went to check the load that’s when he found the reason for the crews condition. There was only about 100 bags of scallops ,but can you imagine this. 10 fishermen 150 cases of French champagne about 300 cases of German beer and 12 TONS OF ICE . Wow you got the makings for one hell of a party. No kidding that’s what they pulled up in the dredges. And now for the mystery how did it get there? It couldn’t have been there that long , there was no growth on the bottles of champagne . The labels were gone but you could read made in France on the bottom of the bottles and there was no rust on the wire holding the corks in . As for the beer I remember it was in dark green cans ,I can’t remember the brand but it had a picture of a tiger or a wolf on the label , and almost no rust on the cans. It couldn’t have been from the rumrunning it hadn’t been down that long and I don’t think they bothered to smuggle beer . We don’t think any thing sank because no body pulled up any wreckage there were 3 or 4 other boats that pulled up some of the same stuff. Now some one told me that sometimes if a liner didn’t have enough booze on board for the return trip they would dump it over board because they couldn’t stock up in the USA unless they were completely out of supplies. That didn’t make much sense to me and if that were the case I would think we would have found a Varity of things not just beer and Champagne. So if any of you guys can come up with any ideas, speculations , suggestions, or just plain fantasies as to how this stuff got there I would love to hear them……………………Phil