Freighter Dependent ~ 9 September 1935

The News reported a maritime incident near Ocracoke. Hatteras on Sept. 9.

"The DEPENDENT, a freight boat plying between Belhaven and Hatteras, burned off Hatteras Inlet Sunday morning while the crew of three were rescued by the Hatteras Inlet Coast Guard. The blaze started with a fire in the engine room. The freighter was owned by Irvin Day and his son, Rion Day, of South Creek. Capt. Rion Day and two others were aboard when the ship caught fire and Mr. Day was painfully burned on the hand while fighting the flames. The boat had unloaded and was on its way back to Belhaven when the accident occurred. The ship, which was valued at $4,000, was a total loss and no insurance was carried."

Schooner Nomis ~ 16 August 1935

SHORTLY AFTER midnight on Saturday, August 17, 1935, the 3-masted schooner Nomis of New York, foundered on the outer reef of Ocracoke beach abreast Six Mile Hammock during a southeast storm. Coastguardsmen under the command of Capt. Bernice Balance, Hatteras Inlet Station and Capt. Elisha Tillett, Ocracoke station, rushed equipment down the beach and the rescue via breeches buoy, of Capt. Charles C. Clausen, master-owner of the Nomis, and son Charles Jr. of Hampstead, L.I.; Michael Hotykay and Henry Wolzanski, Perth Amboy; Leon Jerome, New York, and Albert Butes of Georgetown, S.C., crew members, was effected about 7 o’clock Saturday morning.

The Nomis was the last schooner to wreck on Ocracoke. She was bound from Georgetown, SC, to New York with a cargo of 338,000 feet of lumber. On Tuesday, the 20th, Theodore Meekins of Manteo, representing the underwriters, and other insurance agents arrived to arrange for a vendue of the cargo of heavy rough lumber which was held at 10 o’clock on September 6th following salvage operations which had given temporary employment to a number of the islanders here. The above photo was made by the former Miss Selma Wise, now Mrs. Ben E. Spencer, who was a member of the Ocracoke school faculty at that time. (Beacon Photo)