"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.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Sloop Success ~ March 1750
The Pennsylvania Gazette March 5, 1750
By a sloop arrived here yesterday from Virginia, we hear, the sloop Success, Oliver Shourts master, of this port, from North-Carolina, is cast away near Cape-Hatteras, the sloop and cargo lost, but the men saved.
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