North Carolina Shipwrecks

"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.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Packet Levereau ~ 14 July 1790

The Pennsylvania Packet, Philadelphia, PA, 18 August 1790

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Lovely Ann ~ May 1790

Poughkeepsie Journal, Poughkeepsie, NY, 15 May 1790

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Pusey Hall ~ 1 January 1790

"American ship Pusey Hall, Captain Simpson, sailing from Jamaica to Virginia, wrecked at Cape Lookout."

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Judi Heit is a history buff who has been researching shipwrecks off the North Carolina coast since 2010, when Hammond Innes book "Wreck of the Mary Deare" captured her imagination. The Heits live in Oriental, NC ... a fishing village that takes its name from the Steamer Oriental, wrecked off their coast in May 1862. (This blog last updated on 2/25/2019.)

The shipwrecks listed on this blog are archived as follows. Ship names starting with:

A to F ~ April 2012

G to L ~ March 2012

M to R ~ February 2012

S to XYZ ~ January 2012

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