North Carolina Shipwrecks

In late September, 1837, a particularly violent hurricane known as " Racer’s Storm" had blown up south of Jamaica, crossed Yucat...

Newbern Spectator, Newbern, NC, November 1, 1836

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...

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

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

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

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