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15069
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Whale's Head Light, or Currituck Beach Lighthouse, stands 163 feet high on the beach at Corolla, North Carolina. Built in 1875, it fills a dangerous gap between Cape Henry, Virginia and Bodie Island where southbound vessels keep inshore to avoid the Gulf Stream.
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15057
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One of the worst wrecks ever to occur off the coast of North Carolina gave Coast Guardsmen stationed at Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, and Nag's Head stations an opportunity to effect one of the most thrilling rescues of human life in the history of the service. The ship, Paraguay, enroute from Spain to New York City, ran aground in strong winds between Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills, but Coast Guardsmen rescued twenty-four of the Greek seamen aboard the vessel.
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