"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.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Brig Pompey ~ 28 December 1766
"The brigantine Pompey, Benjamin Torbert master, from Philadelphia, for Cape Fear ... lost about three weeks ago ... 30 miles to the northward of Cape Look-Out." (Carolina Gazette, Charleston, January 26, 1767) "A brig driven ashore on Cape Lookout" (Virginia Gazette, March 19, 1767)
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