"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.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Schooner A. Ernest Mills ~ 6 April 1929
Three were killed on 6 April 1929 when the USS Childs collided with the American four-masted schooner, A. Ernest Mills, off Currituck Beach. She was lifted out of the sea on April 18.
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