"The Blue Book says we've got to go out and it doesn't say a damn thing about having to come back." --Captain Patrick Etheridge, USLSS
A compilation of U.S. Life-Saving Service reports, newspaper articles, publications and more related to shipwrecks of the N.C. coast. Does not include ships that were hauled off or otherwise saved.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Merchantman Shannon ~ March 1764
Caledonian Mercury
Edinburgh
March 31,
1764
The [Scottish] Shannon, [Captain] Williamson, from Virginia for Glasgow put
ashore at Curotuck [Currituck] in North Carolina. The ship
lost, the crew and part of the cargo is saved.
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