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34783
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Carteret County author David Stick dedicated much of his career to studying shipwrecks and maritime heroes of the Outer Banks. Beginning as a World War II correspondent in the Pacific Theater, Stick returned to North Carolina and began studying the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Part of his research involved contacting wreck survivors and visiting the vessel, if possible. Towards the end of his life, Stick donated many materials to the Outer Banks History Center for continued use. He passed away in 2009.
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35565
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An aerial view of the Outer Banks offers sights like the Cape Hatteras lighthouse and Wild “Banker” Ponies. The treasures not viewable by the naked eye lie in the briny deep: remains of Spanish galleons, colonial brigantines, Confederate steamers, WW I freighters, and U-boats.
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34497
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The barkentine OLIVE THURLOW was passing Cape Lookout on route to New York when its captain, Jerry Hayes, broke his leg. Seeking medical attention from the nearby lifesaving station, the lighthouse keeper warned the THURLOW’s crew that a storm was approaching. While the Captain was taken to Beaufort for medical attention, the ship and crew were grounded on the beach. This account details their rescue and the demise of OLIVE THURLOW, including the later discovery of archaeological remains.
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34466
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In February 1905, the schooner SARAH D.J. RAWSON wrecked offshore of the Cape Lookout Life-Saving Station on route to New York City with a cargo of lumber. The article details the rescue of the crew, for which the Life-Saving personnel received Congressional recognition.
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35482
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A victim can be the Central America, a ship that an oceanographic atlas and US Navy wreck list had tried to locate. Victim can be defined by the loss of 482 human lives. In this case, victim directly alluded to the loss of gold. Approximately $600,000 of this precious metal—in the form of coins, dust, and nuggets—was jettisoned by the crew into the sand clouded briny deep.
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2749
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The USS Huron, a warship that ran aground off the Outer Banks in November, 1877, with a loss of 98 crewmen, has been designated the state's first historic shipwreck preserve.
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4091
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In the fall of 1998, Hurricane Bonnie brought ashore on Currituck Beach a 58-foot shipwreck remnant. The Underwater Archaeology Unit of the State Historic Preservation Office has documented the remains extensively. The vessel is thought to have been steam-powered and to have gone down in the late 19th-century.
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15974
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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.
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35934
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A continuation of the series begun in Sea Chest’s first edition, this collection of journal entries mostly chronicled the meteorological conditions between September 1874-July 1879. Wedged between daily reports of barometric pressure were occasional ones of ships setting sail and their minor damages. Rare reports were of loss of life from shipwrecks and drownings.
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The sinking of the ship, HOME, on Oct. 9, 1837 created a court case and a ruling that has implications into the 1960s. The entire Croom family drowned when the ship sank. The Croom family members argued for 20 years over who died first since the inheritance depended upon who lived the longest. The case ended with the common calamity decision that stated that all family members are declared to have died at the same time.
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36009
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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.
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7820
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The Honduran freighter, OMAR BABUN, came ashore on the Outer Banks on May 14, 1954, about three miles north of the Chicamacomico Coast Guard Station in Rodanthe. In this SEA CHEST interview, Ed McLeod recounts the story of the last breeches buoy rescue on Hatteras Island, how the ship was unloaded, and what finally happened to the vessel.
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