WRECKS YET TO BE RESEARCHED

This listing of ships is by date of wreck. These ships will be moved to their own post as more information is discovered: 

1800-1899

Sloop Revenue / December 1818 / Currituck Inlet

Schooner Hiram / January 19, 1837 / Wash Woods

Schooner Alhambra / August 26, 1837 / Bodie Island

Schooner William / August 29, 1837 / Cape Lookout

Ship Flora / March 28, 1840 / Frying Pan Shoals    

Brig Ashley / June 2, 1842 / Cape Fear

Schooner Trident / June 14, 1842 / Bodie Island

Schooner Driver / January 17, 1844 / Cape Hatteras

Schooner McDonough / June 13, 1844 / Kitty Hawk

Schooner Argon / December 1844 / Cape Lookout

Brig Moon / May 8, 1845 / Nags Head

Bark Ontario / December 1, 1845 / Diamond Shoals

Schooner Regulus / January 5, 1846 / Hatteras Shoal

Schooner James T. Hatfield / January 18, 1846 / Wash Woods

Schooner Caroline / March 1846 / Ocracoke
Schooner C.C. Thorn / June 2, 1846 / New Inlet

Ship Howell (or Howard) / July 30, 1846 / Nags Head
Schooner Antilla / November 6, 1846 / Nags Head

Schooner Claudia and Mary / August 12, 1847 / Ocracoke
Brig Pennsylvania / September 24, 1847 / Diamond Shoals

Brig Rodney / June 20, 1848 / Off Cape Fear

Schooner R.W. Brown / December 11, 1848 / New Inlet

Schooner Evergreen / January 9, 1849 / Currituck Beach

Schooner J.P. Bickley / March 1849 / Cape Hatteras
Schooner Anna Maria / March 1849 / Currituck Beach

Steamer Franklin / September 14, 1850 / Currituck Beach

Schooner Edward Wood / November 23, 1850 / Currituck Inlet

Steamer America / January 30, 1851 / Off Hatteras

Schooner Richard H. Wyatt / January 31, 1851 / Off Hatteras

Aid Harrington / May 23, 1851 / Caffeys Inlet

Schooner Jane / June 1851 / Hatteras

Schooner P.B. Savery / August 1851 / Chicamacomico

Schooner Walter J. Doyle / March 1852 / Beaufort Bar

Schooner Magnolia / December 3, 1852 / Chicamacomico / 1 killed

Schooner Henrietta Pierce / January 16, 1853 / Kitty Hawk

Schooner Augustus Moore / April 15, 1853 / Kitty Hawk

Steamer Bladan McLaughlin / May 6, 1853 / Kitty Hawk

Brig Albemarle / September 7, 1853 / Off Hatteras

[A ship was lost when the coastline received heavy rainfall from the outer rain bands of an offshore hurricane on September 7. Possibly the Albemarle?]

Bark Eliza / November 28, 1853 / Wash Woods / 1 killed

Clipper Rattler / December 8, 1853 / Currituck Beach                                 

Schooner Rio / December 1853 / Bodie Island

Steamer Sam Berry / January 12, 1856 / Masonboro Inlet / 1 killed

Schooner A.S. Willers / September 1857 / Cape Hatteras

Schooner Wake / September 1857 / Ocracoke

Ship Agamemnon / March 25, 1859 / Currituck Beach

Schooner Charles / November 1859 / Nags Head

Schooner Lady Whidbee / January 17, 1860 / New Inlet

Schooner Chansfield / February 1860 / Albemarle Sound

Brig Volant / September 1862 / New Inlet

Schooner Georgia & battery Rocket / 1862 / Hatteras Inlet

Steamer Andrew Johnson / October 5, 1866 / Currituck Inlet

Brig Geo. E. Maltby / January 7, 1867 / Off Hatteras

Schooner Martha / January 10, 1867 / Currituck Beach

Brig Quick / March 1867 / Oregon Inlet / 5 killed

Steamer Francis / December 30, 1867 / Carolina Beach

Schooner Samuel Eddy / February 1869 / Frying Pan Shoals

Schooner Eleanor T. / February 4, 1870 / Carolina Beach / 5 killed

Steamer Eagle / March 4, 1870 / Bodie Island

Steamer Key West / October 1870 / Cape Hatteras

Steamer La Republique / February 1871 / Off Cape Lookout

Ship Pontiac / February 1871 / Cape Lookout

Brig William Muir / April 1, 1871 / Currituck Beach

Schooner Harriet N. Rogers / January 13, 1873 / Bodie Island

Brig Annie McFarland / January 30, 1873 / Currituck Beach

Brigantine Faugh-A-Ballagh / February 2, 1873 / Currituck Beach

Schooner William / February 6, 1873 / Chicamacomico

Steamer Ariadne / February 7, 1873 / Nags Head

Schooner Spellbourne / October 1873 / Off Cape Hatteras

Bark Furioso / March 1874 / Currituck Inlet

Schooner J. Means / October 12, 1874 / Bodie Island

                

Schooner Clara Davidson / February 7, 1876 / Hatteras Inlet
Schooner Lotta Lee / March 1876 / Hatteras Inlet

Schooner Electric / August 21, 1876 / Off Cape Fear

Schooner J.H. Lockwood / November 20, 1876 / Chicamacomico

Bark America / December 24, 1876 / Chicamacomico

Schooner lona / April 9, 1877 / Chicamacomico

Schooner Benj. W. Robinson / April 10, 1877 / Chicamacomico

Bark Benjamin Dickerman / October 18, 1880 / Off Hatteras / 1 killed

Schooner Mary J. Fisher / August 24, 1881 / Off Lockw'ds Folly / 4 killed

Ship Sandusky / August 28, 1881 / Off Hatteras / 3 killed

Schooner Stampede / February 4, 1882 / Off Cape Fear / 1 killed

Schooner Edna Harwood / November 31, 1882 / Off Hatteras / 1 killed

Schooner Wave / March 5, 1885 / Cape Fear River / 3 killed

Schooner Rachel A. Collins / March 12, 1888 / Off Hatteras / 4 killed

Schooner Parrott / April 7, 1889 / Albemarle Sound / 2 killed

Bark San Antonio / January 21, 1890 / Cape Fear River

Steam Yacht Mignon / September 9, 1890 / Cape Fear

Schooner Gertrude / November 29, 1893 / Cape Fear

1900-1999

Schooner William H. Kenzal / April 5, 1900 / Cape Hatteras

Schooner John A. Buttrick / March 30, 1903 / Cape Fear / 1 killed

Sloop Harry & Ralph / June 26, 1907 / Cape Fear             

Steamer Mindora / January 22, 1915 / Cape Fear

Tug Hattie Gage / June 29, 1918 / Nags Head / 1 killed

Yacht Black Hawk / November 6, 1919 / Oregon Inlet

Steamer Powel / April 6, 1920 / Off Hatteras

Sailing Vessel Nahmeoka / May 22, 1922 / South of Topsail Island

95 as of 2/25/2019