"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.
Carolina Gazette, Charleston, April 26, 1773 "The sloop Hope, of and for St. Croix, from Beaufort ... they [the crew] left her, Cape-Look-Out bearing N.W. about 25 Leagues Distance."