North Carolina Shipwrecks

Chicamacomico Crew (1914) Most U.S. Life-Saving Service facilities were built to similar designs. Stations were manned by 7 surfmen...

Martha J. Coston was an inventor and businesswoman best known for her invention of the Coston flare, a device for signaling at sea. She w...

“The object of this organization is the furnishing of clothing, food and other necessaries to the shipwrecked, through supplies constantl...

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Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885: Just before midnigh...

The Anna May headed out of Hatteras Inlet at 2:30 a.m. the morning of December 9, 1931. She was loaded with fish and headed for Hampton, V...

On January 17 the 32-year-old schooner Anne Comber sprung a leak while offshore. She was en route from Norfolk, VA to New Bern with a l...