"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.
The USS Carl Schurz was commissioned in 1917 as a patrol gunboat. Formerly the small unprotected cruiser SMS Geier of the German Imperial Navy, she had been taken over by the U.S. Navy in 1914 when hostilities between Germany and the U.S. commenced and had been interned in Honolulu. The Schurz sank off Beaufort Inlet after a collision with the SS Florida (Capt. William Wells). More HERE.
