NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM
Beaufort, NC
On this day in 1913 the Evening Star of Washington D.C. reports on a ship that wrecked off the North Carolina Coast. The schooner Future is wrecked in a storm 100 nautical miles SE of Cape Lookout. She departed from Tampa, Florida on December 7, 1912 en-route to Maryland with a half a million feet of lumber on board. The wreckage of the Future stayed afloat and drifted as far north as the New Jersey coast. The Jan. 15 article was followed by two more which revealed that five of the nine crew members survived and were picked up off the wreckage by a passing steam ship.
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