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Captain Edward Stanley Lewis was a Beaufort native who was engaged with maritime industry from an early age. Working as a cabin boy for a lumber barge, Lewis adopted sailing and fishing during his teenage years. He worked as a pilot, ferrying yachts from New York to Miami and mastered party boats out of Beaufort. After obtaining his captain’s license, Lewis worked on various menhaden boats associated with Outer Banks fisheries.
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34671
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PILGRIM was a sailing yacht used in North Carolina for the menhaden fishery. Built in Delaware in 1893, PILGRIM was built to race in the America’s Cup annual yacht race. Following the competition, PILGRIM was converted to a steam vessel and moved to Beaufort in 1913. Modified with an open fish hold, the vessel was owned by local fisheries through 1933 and served a brief stint with the U.S. Navy during World War I. Abandoned in 1935, PILGRIM was filled with cement and used as a breakwater off Harkers Island.
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22097
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Menhaden are not prized as game fish or food, but for industrial purposes. This fish, growing up to fifteen inches, was at the bottom of the food chain, but in Carteret County, it was the fish that built Beaufort. Menhaden processing began after the Civil War, and in the twentieth century about a dozen companies operated in the county providing employment for generations. The last factory closed in 2005. The industry is now gone, but what remains are the songs--chanteys--created by the workers--chanteymen--as they pulled in the catch.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 12, May 2014,
p44-46, 48, 50, 52-54, il
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