"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.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Schooner Hero ~ 9 February 1799
Newbern Gazette, February 16 1799 "Hero, a schooner of Baltimore ... was cast ashore near Beaufort Bar." Possibly 93 tons, no mention of guns.
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