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 1918. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1918. Show all posts
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Gunboat USS Carl Schurz ~ 21 June 1918

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The USS Carl Schurz was commissioned in 1917 as a patrol gunboat. Formerly the small unprotected cruiser SMS Geier of the German Imperi...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Diamond Shoal Lightship (LV-71) ~ 6 August 1918

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The LV-71 was built in Bath, ME in 1897 for the U.S. Lighthouse Service and for 20 years served as a floating lighthouse and aid to navi...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Schooner Elizabeth T. Doyle ~ July 30, 1918

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The Evening Sun, Baltimore, Aug. 23, 1918
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Schooner Luna ~ 29 July 1918

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United States Life-Saving Service Report At 6:30 a.m. July 29 Keeper Mitchell Hamilton of the Portsmouth Station called Keeper David Wil...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Schooner Nat Meader ~ 26 June 1918

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United States Life-Saving Service Report The three-masted Meader was built at Wiscasset, ME in 1885. On June 30 surfman Erskin Odin at ...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Schooner Proteus ~ 19 August 1918

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Schooner Proteus First placed in service in 1900, the luxury liner Proteus was built by the Newport News Shipbuilding Company to a hig...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Steamer Ventura ~ 20 February 1918

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The British steamer  Vetura   had loaded a cargo of nitrates in Colon, Panama and was bound for Hampton Roads, VA, but she never made the ...
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