tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7601051679979763215.post1972286764240645784..comments2023-12-21T17:09:10.961-05:00Comments on North Carolina Shipwrecks: Schooner Cordelia E. Hayes ~ 15 January 1905Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7601051679979763215.post-83361579959412188982014-06-29T21:26:32.320-04:002014-06-29T21:26:32.320-04:00Mr. Perkins, Please confirm the above email addres...Mr. Perkins, Please confirm the above email address is correct. I (finally) have some pics to send you.<br />Teresa<br />jtjjj@roadrunner.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7601051679979763215.post-64224172059345612752014-04-07T11:47:12.155-04:002014-04-07T11:47:12.155-04:00Anonymous, I've sent you an email at the addre...Anonymous, I've sent you an email at the address you listed above, but thought I would post part of my message here as well.<br /><br />My great grandfather, Elmer Ross, was the captain of the Cordelia E. Hays. He had somewhat begrudgingly agreed to allow Captain Brown to take the ship out while he remained at home with his wife for the birth of a child, and it was on that voyage that Captain Brown ran her aground off Diamond Shoals. I was just revisiting this story with my father over the weekend, amidst the chiming of the ship’s clock from the Hays, and he got to talking about some of the items from the ship. The spinet piano was something that Captain Ross had commissioned specifically to fit down the gangway of the Hays so that his wife would have something to play. When the ship ran aground and broke up some of the items were salvaged, and the piano was one of the items Captain Ross was interested in, but as he was not able to attend the auction (held on the beach, most likely) he had submitted written maximum bids for it and other things, and it apparently sold for more than his maximum bid. If you have a decent photo of the piano, I would love to be able to share it with my father. As a lifelong organist, organ restorer, and piano player, and grandson of the man who commissioned it, I know he would be absolutely thrilled to see it.<br /><br />Douglas Perkins<br />deperkin@middlebury.eduDouglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02963219129047603806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7601051679979763215.post-54411575960108073922013-10-08T07:00:04.852-04:002013-10-08T07:00:04.852-04:00The Cordelia E. Hayes went to pieces and was a tot...The Cordelia E. Hayes went to pieces and was a total loss. I doubt the lifesavers would have risked lives to save a piano. Tthere's no record of them attempting to recover anything but people ... and it sounds like they had their hands full doing that. Perhaps your piano somehow swept to shore, though it would have been in pretty rough shape.Judi Heithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13950571033072655425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7601051679979763215.post-90344963082666444012013-10-07T20:51:02.848-04:002013-10-07T20:51:02.848-04:00I have a piano that was supposed to have been salv...I have a piano that was supposed to have been salvaged from this boat, is there any information that would verify that? Thank you! jtjjj@roadrunner.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com