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13797
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Captain John Allen Midgett of the United States Coast Guard fought his way through a sea of blazing oil to rescue forty-two men from the torpedoed British tanker, Mirlo.
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13846
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The three-mast ship Ephraim William grounded on Diamond Shoals during a storm on December 16th, 1884. Sailing from Savannah, Georgia, to Providence, Rhode Island, with a cargo of lumber, a crew of 9 men was left stranded aboard the grounded vessel. Surf men from the Cape Hatteras, Cape Kinnakeet, and Creeds Hill Lifesaving Stations, saved the crew of the Ephraim Williams and earned Gold Life Saving Medals awarded by the Secretary of the United States Treasury.
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24715
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This article discusses the appearance of submarines in 1918 on the North Carolina coast and how many ships were lost in submarine attacks. One such attack took place in 1918, when the British tanker MIRLO (ship) was torpedoed near Chicamacomico.
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