"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.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Sloop John Chevalier ~ September 24, 1834
The People's Press & Wilmington Advertiser September, 1834 "SloopJohn Chevalier... from Charleston for this port, went ashore near Lockwood's Folly Inlet, on Thursday last, during the gale, and went to pieces--crew saved, and a part of the materials."
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