North Carolina Shipwrecks

"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.

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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Schooner Nancy ~ August 1760

The English schooner Nancy, Captain M'Carroll, sailing from Philadelphia to Cape Fear, wrecked near Cape Hatteras.

The Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, PA, 28 August 1760

Posted by Judi Heit at 9:32 AM No comments:

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Judi Heit is a history buff who has been researching shipwrecks off the North Carolina coast since 2010, when Hammond Innes book "Wreck of the Mary Deare" captured her imagination. The Heits live in Oriental, NC ... a fishing village that takes its name from the Steamer Oriental, wrecked off their coast in May 1862. (This blog last updated on 2/25/2019.)

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