The sloop Unqua, of Augustine, Florida, broke anchor in Bogue Sound and came ashore at Ft. Macon where the vessel was torn apart by waves. She had already been saved earlier this year off Bodie Island in an attempt to enter Oregon Inlet, and again in early November after parting her mooring in Roanoke Sound.
"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, January 4, 2012
Sloop Unqua ~ 15 August 1882
The sloop Unqua, of Augustine, Florida, broke anchor in Bogue Sound and came ashore at Ft. Macon where the vessel was torn apart by waves. She had already been saved earlier this year off Bodie Island in an attempt to enter Oregon Inlet, and again in early November after parting her mooring in Roanoke Sound.
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