"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.
Winds from a hurricane on this date
clocked southeast 45 mi/h then southwest 50 mi/h at Wilmington and southeast 75
mi/h at Cape Hatteras. The destruction was very great in the Wilmington area,
with large trees uprooted and carried a considerable distance. At places along Water
Street the waves on the Cape Fear River were above the wharf. At Smithville
(Southport) the storm was reported very disastrous, with several houses blown
down, the warehouses on the garrison wharf completely destroyed, and the Ocean House demolished. The Spanish barque Arrina was blown over in ten
fathoms of water.
