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

Showing posts with label 1827. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1827. Show all posts

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Sloop Falcon ~ 14 July 1827

The Sloop Falcon was lost near Cape Lookout Shoals on 14 July 1827.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Hatteras Lightship ~ August 1827

Lightships anchored at the tip of Diamond Shoals have had a stormy history since their beginning. Floating tubs with thick hulls, they are ...

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Schooner Mentor ~ 25 & 26 August 1827

On September 6, 1827 the Carolina Observer of Fayetteville, NC reported on the storm of August 24 & 25. Disastrous Intelligence: Fiv...

Schooner Maurice R. Thurlow / 13 October 1827

During a storm on October 13 the Maurice R. Thurlow grounded on Diamond Shoals about 10 miles NE of the Ocracoke Island Station. The crew f...

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