Message in a bottle returned to sender's family 101 years later

A message in a bottle tossed in the sea in Germany 101 years ago, believed to be the world’s oldest, has been presented to the sender’s granddaughter, a museum said.

A fisherman pulled the beer bottle with the scribbled message out of the Baltic off the northern city of Kiel last month, Holger von Neuhoff of the International Maritime Museum in the northern port city of Hamburg said.

“This is certainly the first time such an old message in a bottle was found, particularly with the bottle intact,” he said.