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

Sunday, March 20, 2011

GALE OF OCTOBER 1836

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Newbern Spectator, Newbern, NC, November 1, 1836
Saturday, March 19, 2011

EARLY JUNE 3-4 HURRICANE OF 1825

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During a hurricane on June 4, more than 25 unidentified ships were wrecked north of Ocracoke Inlet on the Outer Banks. Forming ahead of wh...
Friday, March 18, 2011

HURRICANE OF SEPTEMBER 1821

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The first of three recorded  tropical cyclones  recorded in the  1821 Atlantic hurricane season , the storm that would eventually strike New...

HURRICANE OF SEPTEMBER 1815

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The 1815 North Carolina hurricane was first detected east of the Lesser Antilles on 26 August, the disturbance drifted toward the northw...

GALE OF OCTOBER 1806

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On October 14 th , the Wilmington Gazette reported the following accounts of the last storm. “Shell-Castle, Sept 29 – About 12 o’cloc...

THE HALIFAX GALE ~ December 1796

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NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL Halifax, North CarolinA 5 December 1796    We have to lament the loss of some lives on this melancholy occa...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

TWIN HURRICANES OF AUGUST 1795

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During the month of August 1795, two parallel track hurricanes passed through North Carolina. The first on August 2 & 3 ... the second 1...
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