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

Monday, June 3, 2013

Life-Savers & Their Equipment

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

The Coston Flare

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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...
Saturday, June 1, 2013

Women's National Relief Association / Blue Anchor Society

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“The object of this organization is the furnishing of clothing, food and other necessaries to the shipwrecked, through supplies constantl...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Sails & Sailing Ships

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Schooner Ario Pardee ~ 29 December 1884

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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...

Trawler Anna May ~ 9 December 1931

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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...

Schooner Anne Comber ~ 17 January 1908

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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...
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