"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
Brigantine Charles C. Overton ~ 3 January 1878
The brigantine Charles C. Overton, of Cedar Keys, was en route to Nassau from New York when she was driven ashore three miles north of Ocracoke Inlet. She was discovered bottom up in 12 feet of water on February 2. The vessel and cargo were completely lost and crew presumed dead.
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