"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
Schooner C.A. Johnson ~ July 1872
While en route from New York City to Washington, her rudder gears gave way and she wrecked at Hatteras Inlet. According to the Wilmington Weekly Star, July 5, 1872 "The cargo was saved, in a damaged condition, by the Ocracoke wreckers. The steamer Stevens took two lady passengers to Washington."
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