"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.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Schooner H. Westcott ~ 24 August 1850
The schoonerH. Wescott was
driven ashore in the gale at the entrance to Cape Fear. A pilot boat sank
after colliding with a steamer in the gale near Smithville (Southport).
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