Record #:

36009

Author(s):

Whitlock, Timmy

Abstract:

Touted as the first four-masted schooner to wreck on the Outer Banks, the George A. Kohler, was destroyed not by the hurricane that had washed it ashore, but the second buyer of its remains. Its value at that time could be measured in the dollars exchanged for its scrap iron and steel. Its present and intrinsic value can be seen in speculations of a shipwreck eight miles from Avon being the sunken schooner.

Source:

Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 5 Issue 1, Fall 1978, p42-45

Subject(s):

Schooners; Shipwrecks--Outer Banks; Hurricanes; Coast defenses; GEORGE A. KOHLER (ship)