"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.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Countess of Leicester ~ 17 December 1765
It was reported on this day in 1763 that the packet boat Countess of Leicester was lost on the coast between Virginia and North Carolina. It was bound from Charleston to New York with the September mail. The mail was found about 40 miles from the wreck.
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