"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.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
GALE OF 18 AUGUST 1850
The brutal gale of August 18, 1850 took 5 vessels at Diamond Shoals alone. Miles of beach were strewn with debris and bodies.
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