Record #:

15974

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

Abstract:

Hurricane Bonnie exposed a wooden shipwreck on the shore of Currituck Beach. Archaeologists from the Underwater Archaeology Unit investigated the 58 feet of wreckage and determined it was most likely a steamship which sank in the late 19th-century and was likely between 130 and 170 feet long.

Source:

Carolina Comments (NoCar F 251 C38), Vol. 47 Issue 1, Jan 1999, p13-14, il

Subject(s):

Shipwrecks--Outer Banks