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

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.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

GALE OF 18 AUGUST 1850

The brutal gale of August 18, 1850 took 5 vessels at Diamond Shoals alone. Miles of beach were strewn with debris and bodies.

Ocean / Brig
Belle / Brig
Racer / Schooner / 3 killed
Mary Ellen / Brig
Margaret / Brig

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Labels: 1850, Belle, Diamond Shoal, Gale of 1850, Gale of August 1850, Margaret, Mary Ellen, Ocean, Racer

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Judi Heit is a history buff who has been researching shipwrecks off the North Carolina coast since 2010, when Hammond Innes book "Wreck of the Mary Deare" captured her imagination. The Heits live in Oriental, NC ... a fishing village that takes its name from the Steamer Oriental, wrecked off their coast in May 1862. (This blog last updated on 2/25/2019.)

The shipwrecks listed on this blog are archived as follows. Ship names starting with:

A to F ~ April 2012

G to L ~ March 2012

M to R ~ February 2012

S to XYZ ~ January 2012

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