Record #:

7517

Author(s):

Charlet, James D.

Abstract:

On August 16, 1918, a German submarine torpedoed the British tanker Mirlo loaded with 6,679 tons of gasoline off the Outer Banks. Members of the Chicamacomico Life Saving Station responded and rescued forty-two of the fifty-one crewmen from burning oil covering acres of oceans and flames that reached one hundred feet in height.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 7, Dec 2005, p25-27, il

Subject(s):

Life-saving Stations--Chicamacomico