"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 Caroline ~ 19 December 1884
Schooner Caroline from Washington, NC stranded 6 miles NNW of the Ocracoke Station while on passage to Wilmington with a cargo of rice. Under the command of Captain Gaskill with a crew of 5. Crew saved but the vessel and cargo was lost.
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