Record #:

13106

Author(s):

Brown, Aycock

Abstract:

Wrecked and washed onto the beach during a hurricane in September 1913, the George W. Wells, the first six-mast schooner ever built, was the largest shipwreck ever recorded on the Carolina coast. En route from Boston, MA to Fernandina, FL, the Wells washed up on a reef, 400 yards offshore Ocracoke Island.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 24 Issue 23, Apr 1957, p15-16, il

Subject(s):

Shipwrecks--Ocracoke Island