"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, February 9, 2012
Schooner Premium ~ 8 January 1837
The captain and two crew members were taken off the sloop Premium, en route to its home port of New Haven, CT from Virginia, by a passing unidentified vessel and landed on Ocracoke Bar. The vessel had been abandoned in a sinking condition.
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