"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
Friday, January 6, 2012
Schooner Seaman ~ 5 March 1837
NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM
Beaufort, NC
www.ncmaritimemuseum.org
1836 Map of the Vicinity by
Morse and Tuttle
On this day in 1837 the schooner Seaman, of Duxbury, was lost at New River Inlet. Half full of water with no people on board, she was boarded March 5 by the Miles King of Norfolk. The crew had been taken off by the steamer South Carolina.
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